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Plot to destroy national landmarks using dynamite is uncovered by New York policeman Raymond Wood.

Plot to blow up U.S. landmarks is uncovered in New York on February 16, 1965. Views of targets to blow up American landmarks in various cities. Multiple views of the Statue of Liberty in New York, front and back from the water and from the air. Next scene is low aerial view of the George Washington Monument equestrian statue at Benjamin Franklin Parkway and Eakins Oval. Car traffic seen and view of tall building skyline of Philadelphia. Exterior view of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, followed by view of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, View of reflecting pool and the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington DC. View of largely empty parking lot near the Woodland apartments in New York City. Bomb squad men wearing protective gear are seen moving package of dynamite. Bomb squad truck moving through city streets. The plot was organized by Robert Steele Collier, Walter Augustus Bowe, and Khaleel Sultran Sayyed of Black Liberation Front or BLF, and also a Canadian women, Michelle Duclos, of a Quebec separatist party. Undercover police officer Raymond Wood is seen getting an award for uncovering the plot.

Date: 1965, February 16
Duration: 2 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070998
Israeli soldiers occupy towns in 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. United Nations meets. People celebrate Israel in New York City.

Israeli Haganah soldiers (shortly before formation of Israeli Defense Forces or IDF) advance through war-torn Haifa during 1948 Arab-Israeli War in Palestine region. Israeli soldiers search Arabs at a checkpoint. Arabs detained by Israelis. Palestinian refugees fleeing Israeli occupied area carrying their belongings (one using a baby carriage for that purpose). Dejected Palestinian women and children. Dead bodies of Arabs on the ground. Israelis advancing in a town using an armored car. Two armed Israeli soldiers holding their flag. Israeli soldiers gathered together conversing behind Barricade and barbed wire. United Nations meeting at headquarters in Lake Success, New York. A speaker at the podium. Delegates conversing between sessions. Jewish people celebrate the new State of Israel, in New York City, in May 1948. A boy hoists the new country's flag from an apartment window, as crowd stands outside and celebrates. A group of young people dance the Hora (circle dance) in the midst of the crowd.

Date: 1948
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035701
Works Progress Administration jobs at Bolling Field and in New York building give men construction jobs during great depression

Unemployed African American men and various skilled and unskilled workers get jobs through Works Progress Administration (WPA) during great depression. Men gathered near Quartermaster office at a Bolling Field construction project in Washington DC. Laborers assist in building and grading runways at Bolling Field military installation. Men clear large rocks and debris from a jobsite. Workers smooth and grade runways. A steam shovel moves earth and loads a truck. Scene changes to New York City where a housing demolition project is shown, with men dismantling housing to prepare new moderate income housing. Bricks slide sown a chute away from the building. Workers at Colonial Park in Harlem New York are seen building a new bath house to accompany a newly completed swimming pool (later Jackie Robinson Pool).

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058298
American Forces advance against Japanese held areas of New Guinea during World War II.

Animated map shows U.S. forces extending control in the Pacific the the Marshall and Gilbert Islands in the Pacific during World War 2. An American soldier sentry near a destroyed Japanese reinforced concrete bunker. Another looks at a destroyed Japanese coastal gun. More American soldiers looking over destroyed Japanese coastal defenses. A destroyed Japanese type 95 HA-GO tank. A U.S. troops look at a destroyed Japanese Mitsubishi G4M (Betty) bombers on a captured airfield. Animated map of New Guinea.showing Allied advance to Hollandia. U.S. aircraft carriers with their aircraft flying overhead. Closeup from behind of a Navy Grumman F6F Hellcat aircraft taking off from a carrier. Formations of U.S. Navy carrier-based aircraft in flight overhead. Escort aircraft carriers (called "Jeep" carriers by the narrator) are seen with decks full of airplanes. Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft taxiing on a carrier deck. An F6F fighter plane taking off. A formation of Douglas SBD Dauntless airplanes viewed from above, flying over the sea. Gun camera films from U.S. aircraft strafing parked airplanes on Japanese airfields.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067287
Airmen work on a Douglas World Cruiser and Lt. Smith superintends unpacking of a new engine in England.

U.S. Army Air Service Douglas World Cruisers (DWC) in London during their first flight around the world. In Brough, England airmen work on one of the world cruiser at a rapid pace preparing for a hop to the Orkney Islands and first lap across the Atlantic. A world cruiser maintenance man cleans the aircraft. Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith, pilot of the world cruiser, superintends unpacking of a new engine for his airplane. Several views of the engine changeover. The engines start. Ground crew members push pontoons. Several views of the replacing of wheels on pontoons.

Date: 1924
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071964
Premiere of Hollywood movie "The thrill of it All" in California; and a model parade in New York City.

Gathering for the Premiere of a new comedy movie 'The thrill of it all' in California. Close views of movie stars at the Premiere in Westwood, at the Westwood Village theatre. View of blinking lights around the movie theater marquee. Cameramen taking pictures. Doris Day poses with her husband Martin Melcher. View of crowd waiting to see actor James Garner, who is shown next. Producer James Hunter walks in. Camera men take pictures of star Angie Dickinson and also John Saxon. Change of scene to New York City, and view of a Rooftop Swimming Pool of the Midtown Motor Inn, in New York City, where thirteen models parade wearing swimsuits. Star Thelma Ritter on hand along with Kirk Douglas and William Bendix. One of them will be chosen to be 'Miss Premiere' at the opening of the movie 'For Love or Money'. 'Miss Premiere' Gayle Quilow of Cleveland is crowned by comedian Joe E. Ross.

Date: 1963, August 8
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039183