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Technicians work on lunar module "LEM-1" and prepare to ship it to Cape Kennedy.

Grumman-built LEM (Lunar Excursion Module 1 or LM-1), a space vehicle for carrying astronauts onto the surface of the moon in the United States. Technicians work on the "LEM" as part of NASA Apollo program. The space car is being readied for shipment to NASA at Cape Kennedy. (Shown here is LM-1, which was the first of several excursion modules tested in advance of the actual use of the LEM for the manned landing on the moon with Apollo 11 in 1969.)

Date: 1967, July 4
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042818
President John Kennedy attends first baseball game played at DC Stadium, between Washington Senators and Detroit Tigers, in 1962.

U.S. President John Kennedy attends the first ballgame played at the new $20 million District of Columbia Stadium, or DC Stadium, in April 1962. 45,000 spectators in stands for the opening of the stadium and the Major League Baseball season. Glimpse of the new DC Stadium in Washington, DC, filled with baseball fans. President John F. Kennedy enters the ballpark, accompanied by David Francis Powers, and proceeds toward seats bearing the Presidential seal. Spectators in nearby seats stand to greet the President, and several shake his hand. Scene shifts to players and newsmen on the field all focused on President Kennedy. News photographers are busy photographing him. Camera shifts to President Kennedy making a long throw followed by the ballplayers scrambling for it on the ballfield. View of the President smiling after his throw, with Illinois Republican Senator Everett Dirksen standing to his left, and slightly behind him, and David Powers to his right. Senator George Smathers of Florida is laughing behind them. The President bends down momentarily revealing Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana, directly behind him and Special Assistant to the President Lawrence “Larry” O’Brien, at Mansfield's right. Associate Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher, wearing sun glasses is behind and to left of Dirksen. Closeup of Home plate umpire Charlie Berry shouting "Play Ball!" after brief rain delay. Lights are on during daytime as game is played. Washington Senators player hits single to left field. Senators go on to beat the visiting Detroit Tigers 4-1. (Note: The stadium was later renamed Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, or RFK Stadium, in 1969).

Date: 1962, April 9
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071771
U.S. President Richard Nixon addresses people in the United States on withdrawal of remaining U.S. troops from Vietnam.

Television broadcast of U.S. President Richard Nixon's speech from the White House in Washington DC, United States on the withdrawal of remaining U.S. troops from Vietnam on 29th March 1973 during the Vietnam War. The White House. The Seal of the President of the United States. The President talks about that period of the Vietnam War when he joined the office and speaks about the program he initiated to end the war. He says American prisoners are on their way from Vietnam and people of South Vietnam are now free to choose their government. He says North Vietnam is not complying with few provisions of the Peace Agreement. He says that they should honor all those American soldiers who died during the Vietnam War. He refers to the difficult days of the war including the moratorium to end the war which was organized on October 15, 1969 when millions of Americans took day off from work and schools to participate in local demonstrations against the war. Nixon refers to the period of April 1971 when he ordered attacks on Communist bases in Cambodia. He talks about the period of May 1972 when he ordered air strikes in North Vietnam and the period of December 1972 when he ordered more air strikes.

Date: 1973
Duration: 6 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073677
Elements of ordinary life in America that are captured in statistics and reports of the U.S. Census Bureau.

View of houses in an American residential neighborhood area in the suburbs, from low-flying airplane. Crowded street scene in a major city with black and white pedestrians walking on sidewalk in typical 1970s fashions. A public school No. 2. Yellow school buses carrying children. African American family with small children boarding a bus. A group of white people walking appearing to be a grandmother, her son, and three grandchildren. People enjoying a day in a park. African American woman standing near a large upright computer tape tape machine. She presses something on the machine to operate it. House with a "for sale" sign in the suburbs. A man opening the door of a 1969 or 1970 Ford Pinto car at a car sales dealership. Various report documents of the U.S. Census Bureau are displayed. Cattle being unloaded from a farmer's truck. A farmer cultivating a field, using a tractor. Views of State and Municipal Government buildings, including a view of the Justice Department in Washington DC, and including people entering and leaving the Compton, California City Hall building. Highway sign reading: "Leaving West Georgia Soil & Water Conservation District." Others, reading: Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Silver Spring Branch Office," and "Wakefield County Park, Fairfax County Park Authority," "District of Columbia, Storm Sewer Vicinity, 14th St. & Kentucky Ave. S.E," and "Harford County Metropolitan Commission, Water Transmission System." A late 1960s car approaching a toll booth on a highway. A policeman directing traffic. Several medical personnel in whites, walking on hospital grounds. A railroad worker. A teacher posting a notice on door, at a school, as school girls behind him try to read the posting. A steel mill with smoke rising from tall stacks. Cars parked outside of Lasalle College New Athletic Facilities construction sign. A Washington DC police car patrolling a city street. Cars parked bumper-to-bumper along a city street.

Date: 1970
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070326
Man smoking at night, woman getting on bus, women driving and at gas station, girls at roller rink 1970s.

View of a dark, secluded street at night. A soldier holds a lighted cigarette, with cigarette butts littered on the ground. Close up car headlight turning off. Woman's feet stepping out of car. Young female sergeant walks alone in secluded street at night. Soldier throws cigarette butt on the ground at night. Bus pulling up to bus stop in Alabama. Young woman wearing 1970s fashions, with blue boho head scarf steps onto bus as doors open. Blond woman holding groceries unlocks car door. Young woman sitting in driver’s seat as gas station attendant at Gulf gas station cleans windshield of her sports car. Car drives down street at night while 1969 Mustang GT car pulls away. African American girl and her friend in pigtails approaches the African American girl’s father in a roller skating rink. The African American girl tells her father that her friend needs a ride home. Man looking through binoculars at night. Views of several apartment windows at night with curtains drawn. Man putting down binoculars and closing curtains at night. A soldier greets a young female sergeant. Female sergeant asks the soldier to hold her handbag for her while she plays billiards with them. After the soldier asks if it was an order, the female sergeant hands over her handbag to him, explaining “… it’s called being a good sport.”

Date: 1977
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078436
Tourists ride a sightseeing train of the Alaska Railroad from vicinity of Mount McKinley, to Seward, Alaska.

Tourists seeing Alaska from train of the Alaska Railroad. View from interior of a sightseeing car of the railroad. Passengers stand about and look out at the scenery as the train moves along parts of Alaska. View from the train traversing rail line along a river in vicinity of Mount Mckinley. Snow on the ground. View to the rear showing rugged terrain over which the rail line passes along the edge of a river. Closeup of a building with sign reading "Anchorage" and noting 353 miles to Fairbanks and 114 miles to Seward. View from inside the train as it passes through a Snow shed (aka avalanche gallery) where the light creates interesting effects. View exiting the snow shed. Steep mountain sides with snow in that area. View looking back at a curved trestle and track already passed over. Change of scene to the waterfront at Seward, where the train has arrived. Commercial boats and ships in the water. View of a seaman climbing a rope ladder in rigging of a ship. A mountain overlooking the city

Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064925