President John F Kennedy and party in Huntsville, Alabama. They board an airplane at an airfield. Photographers take pictures. Airplane taxis and takes off from the runway. Dignitaries gathered at the airfield.
Chimpanzee Ham in space. The chimpanzee aboard NASA Mercury Spacecraft 5 MR-2. View of Chimpanzee Ham seated in couch during flight. Animal chimpanzee's facial expression during space flight.
Dr. Werner Von Braun and General John B Medaris in Pentagon studio, stand next to model of Redstone Missile. Von Braun in his speech states that the Redstone Missile is America's largest ballistic Missile to have reached the test firing stage. Medaris in his speech speaks about its much longer range.
View of a the Confederate Memorial Carving honoring confederate civil war leaders, located at Stone Mountain, Georgia. Carved figures of Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis, comprising the largest bas relief sculpture in the world. Each is riding atop their favorite horse, "Little Sorrel", "Traveller", and "Blackjack," respectively. Three sculptors led by Roy Faulkner work and carve the sculpture on rock. Faulkner describes the carving activity, done using the back-blast of jet-fuel-powered torches.
Brief shot of hands dialing a phone followed by views of United States Capitol (First St SE, Washington, DC 20004, United States). View of the Jefferson Memorial (16 E Basin Dr SW, Washington, DC 20242, United States) and Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002, United States) from a moving car. Obelisk of the Washington Monument in Washington DC. Still photographs of the Washington Monument under construction. View of the Washington Monument from different angles. The American flags flutter in front of the Washington Monument (2 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States). View of the White House. Cherry blossoms on the Tidal Basin are also seen. From a Bell Telephone television advertisement.
In a 1970 television program, host Lee Marvin talks about Hoover Dam in the Black Canyon on the Colorado River, in between Arizona and Nevada in the United States. Historical scenes from construction of the dam in the early 1930s. Crane lifts a number of workers on a raised platform. Worker comes down the mountain with the help of rope. Workers walk across bridge. Dynamite explosion dislodges rock for dam construction. The Hoover dam under construction. Rock blasting in the dam's diversion tunnels. Construction workers eat food in Anderson's Mess hall. Views of workers dining in the mess hall and the kitchen during food preparation. Includes interviews with workers Joe Kine, Tommy Nelson, and Doug Moore who participated in construction. Later aerial views of the Hoover Dam around 1970.
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