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Views of National Guard soldiers in practice battle in Chicago, Illinois, shortly before World War 2

Six P-12 biplane aircraft in flight just outside Chicago, Illinois during a practice battle for American military forces from the Illinois National Guard. Troops at ground fire machine guns, loading and firing anti-aircraft guns. Troops wear gas masks, moves through the smoke and firing rifles. A tank and the Chicago skyline in background with various skyscrapers seen.

Date: 1938
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032873
Adlai Stevenson delivers a speech during the 1956 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

The 1956 Democratic National Convention at the International Amphitheater (4220 South Halsted Street Chicago, Illinois 60609 United States) in Chicago, Illinois. Democratic nominee for President Adlai Stevenson speaks into a microphone and expresses his gratefulness to the delegates for electing him as the Presidential nominee. He speaks about the importance of the Vice-Presidential candidate. He says that the Vice-Presidential nominee must be chosen through a free process of the convention.

Date: 1956, August
Duration: 6 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050721
People read newspaper and at tables for a meal aboard a luxurious train in Chicago, Illinois.

A new streamlined luxury train in Chicago, Illinois. Buildings in the background. Luxury train on tracks in Chicago. Illinois. People seated inside the train. They read newspapers. Some people look outside the train. Bar in the train and it also serves as a dining room. People seated at tables as men serve food to them.

Date: 1936, July 6
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051563
Black Panther Party's Chairman Fred Hampton's murder investigations in Chicago, Illinois.

News reporter reports on the murder of Black Panther Party's Chairman Fred Hampton in his apartment in Chicago, Illinois. Investigations done at the crime scene. Attorney James Montgomery in a press interview speaks regarding Hampton's death. Police officer explains the events that took place on the day of Hampton's murder. Illinois State Attorney General Edward V Hanrahan speaks on what occurred at the raid of Fred Hampton's apartment in Chicago. View of bullets holes at the crime scene. Press officials ask various questions.

Date: 1969, December
Duration: 6 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029951
The 1956 Democratic National Convention in the International Amphitheatre, Chicago, Illinois, August 13–17 1956

The 1956 National Convention of the Democratic Party at the International Amphitheatre (4220 South Halsted Street Chicago, Illinois 60609 United States) in Chicago, Illinois. Former President Harry S. Truman and his wife Bess, taking seats at the convention. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, taking her seat. Democratic Party National Chairman, Paul M. Butler standing behind and below the podium as convention prepares to get underway. The amphitheater is filled with seated delegates, as they are called to order. Delegates standing and applauding, following the keynote speech of Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee, who touches the Tennessee delegate identification pole as it is thrust toward him. Delegates waving poles displaying their respective State names.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070985
Skyscrapers and an underpass, offices, sculpture, people working in offices in Chicago, Illinois United States.

Skyscrapers and an underpass of Chicago, Illinois United States. Modernistic offices and people working in them in the 1960s. Views of Daley Plaza (50 W Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602, United States) and the untitled sculpture (“Chicago Picasso”) by Pablo Picasso on display in the plaza. A boy with a camera takes photograph of the skyscrapers or sculpture. Busy streets and roads with buses and cars behind him can be seen.

Date: 1965
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036785