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View of London city after War Ministers resignation on his involvement with a Russian girl.

Big Ben clock tower of London. View of men and women on road. Vehicles passing. People outside the House of Commons. Conservative Government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is disturbed as the House of Commons votes on the security aspects as the War Minister resigned who had an affair with a Russian girl friend.

Date: 1963, June 20
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039155
Black Watch regiment plays for Kennedy and family and underprivileged children at White House, 8 days before Kennedy's death

President Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy and British Officers on the White House lawn greeting the Pipes and Drums of the Black Watch Regiment of Scotland. Jacqueline Kennedy shakes hands with a Black Watch Piper. A large group of underprivileged children is invited by the Kennedys to watch the concert. View of President and his wife at the White House balcony with their children. President's daughter Caroline and son John Jr., can be seen. John Jr. bows to the Regiment guest. Then Caroline Kennedy curtsies and then has trouble regaining her seat beside President Kennedy. View of the Regiment playing and marching on the White House lawn. This occurred eight days before President Kennedy was assassinated.

Date: 1963, November 14
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039167
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing Lend-Lease Act in White House.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing Lend-Lease Act in the White House during World War 2. He later signs bill approving first transfer of war material. U.S. Ambassador John D. Winant greeting King George VI of England. Shows four old American destroyers entering British Harbor as a part of Lend-Lease plan and Navy Department Munitions Building in Washington D.C.

Date: 1941
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039305
Wendell Wilkie attends dedication of aircraft plant in Nashville where Vultee P-66 Vanguard aircraft are produced.

Wendell Wilkie waves from the top of the boarding ramp by his Douglas DC-3-178 - American Airlines Flagship-Virginia, acknowledging people greeting him at the new Vultee aircraft plant in Nashville, Tennessee. An African American man in uniform stands by as Wilkie descends the ramp. Scene shifts to a sizeable crowd waving from behind a fence on the airfield. An aerial view shows the factory and its airfield. Closer view of factory building itself. Next, a huge crowd is seen behind a fence, where a Vultee P-66 is displayed on a stand above the fence. It bears a British Royal Air Force roundel on its fuselage. U.S. Air Army Air Forces Officers and some Boy Scouts pose in front ot the aircraft. Wendel Wilkie is seen next, at a speaker's stand arrayed with microphones. It is decorated and displays the Vultee company Logo. Special guests in front of the stand, are seated on folding chairs. Closeup of Wilkie. Company officials are seen on a platform next to a Vultee P-66. Closeup of two young girls on the platform. One wields a bottle of Champaign to Christen the plane. Spectators applaud. A P-66 takes off from the airfield and climbs away.

Date: 1941
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039319
Royal Air Force cadets training in aircraft Stearman PT-17.

Views of Royal Air Force (British Armed Force) cadets training in aircraft Stearman PT-17s at Dallas. RAF cadets marching near PT-17s, inspecting and boarding PT-17s. PT-17s in flight. View of a cadet smiling surrounded by women and other cadets.

Date: 1941
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039333
American aircraft taking off for Canada and England.

Chief of Air Corps Ferrying Command Colonel Robert Olds talking to pilots. Shows American planes, Lockheed Hudson taking off and in flight to Canada. Royal Air Force officer examining map. American bomber plane B-24s taking off and flying to England for use by British forces as part of lend-lease program in World War 2. Point of view shot inside cockpit of B-24 aircraft flying low.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039355