Damage from race riots in Watts section of Los Angeles in California. Destroyed buildings along the sides of a street in largely African American area of Los Angeles. Buildings set on fire. Heavy smoke columns arising out of the fire. Soldiers walking with arrested men. Troops walking with rifles. Rubble of buildings and houses destroyed. A car passing on the street. More troops coming out of a bus in the area. A helicopter hovers over the area. Cars parked on the street. Troops patrol the area.
The 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, California. Aerial view of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Olympic Stadium as seen from a blimp. Frank Wykoff wins the men's 400 meter relay. Bob Kiesel, Emmett Toppino, Hector Dyer, and Frank Wykoff stand together. Jean Shiley wins the women's high jump. Wilhelmina Von Bremen wins the 400 meter relay. Crowd cheers and applauds. Yasuji Miyazaki wins the 100 meter men's freestyle swimming event. Mickey Riley wins the men's springboard diving contest. Helene Madison wins the women's 100 meter freestyle swimming event. Men line up for the start of the Marathon race. Juan Carlos Zabala wins the marathon. The Americans take a lead in the Games of the X Olympiad.
The opening ceremony of the 10th Olympic games held in Los Angeles, California. A large crowd seated in the stadium. The teams from different countries march on the ground. The leader holds their country's flag. Teams stand in formation. Crowd applauds. U.S. Vice President Charles Curtis stands at a podium and addresses the crowd. Other officials stand nearby. He announces the opening of the 10th Olympiad.
The opening ceremony of the 10th Olympic games held in Los Angeles, California. A large crowd seated in the stadium. The teams from different countries stand in formation on the ground. The leaders of the teams hold their country's flags. U.S. flag flies atop a flag pole. Olympic flame in the background. People watch the ceremony. The teams take the Olympic oath. The crowd applauds.
The 10th Olympic games held in Los Angeles, California. High altitude view of the stadium. A large crowd seated in the stadium. Men ride horses on the ground. They ride their horses and jump them over the obstacles. People watch the race.
Aerial view from airplane flying low over a dairy pasture outside San Jacinto, California, shows cars and people below, gathered around a parked Soviet Tupolev ANT-25 aircraft that landed there on July 14, 1937, after a nonstop flight over the North Pole, from Moscow, Russia. Closeup of local people standing in roped off area, looking at the airplane. Scene changes to Soviet pilot, Mikhail Gromov; Co-pilot, Sergei Danilin, and Navigator, Andrei Yumashev, meeting the Press, 20 miles away, on veranda at March Army Air Field Officers Club. Back at the landing site, local people walk under the aircraft wings and examine it closely. Letters "25ND25" are stenciled under the left wing. Back at March Field, American Air Corps officers shake hands with the Soviet flyers.
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