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Allegations against mafia gangster Frank Costello and arguments in front of the Kefauver Committee.

Proceedings of the Kefauver Committee. A man testifies to the committee. New York underworld gangster Frank Costello alleged of various charges is questioned by the committee. The accused is not ready to accept any of the charges and denies all those levied against him. 1951.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1951
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035802
List of allegations against mafia gangster of NY Frank Costello in front of the Kefauver Committee

Proceeding of the Kefauver Committee underway. The gangster of New York Frank Costello is alleged of various charges. The court charges him of anti-America activities such as illegally residing in America, illegal possession, trading, and distributing alcoholic products in America. The accused denies to all charges. He also refuses having any sort of network of co-workers. 1951.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1951
Duration: 2 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035803
Officers and selected workers of Selective Service System, and a man discusses with his father about its various streams.

The Selective Service System (SSS) in United States, its functioning and effects. Officials of selection boards and assembly of people selected for various services. Women workers busy working in an office. Map of United States shows distribution of SSS offices in various states, in New York and in Washington DC. A man discusses with his father various streams of work under different departments of Selective Service System. His mother arrives and talks to them.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1948
Duration: 4 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036672
The Selective Service System (SSS) holds a draft lottery to induct men into the Vietnam War.

The December 1, 1969 Draft Lottery for the year 1970 is held at the United States Selective Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. The draft lottery is led by General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service Director. The ceremony begins with a benediction, and then an official pours slips of paper containing birth dates into a glass bowl. Congressman Alexander Pirnie of New York draws the first birth date. He declares the date, September 14, and another man pastes the birth date next to a number on a board. Members of the Selective Service Youth Advisory Committee draw additional birth dates and the board is filled out with the draft sequence.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1969, December 1
Duration: 32 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036675
Kidnapped child of aviator Charles Lindbergh missing even after paying ransom of $ 50,000.

Kidnapping of twenty month child of aviator Charles Lindbergh, Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts. Negotiator for Lindberg, Dr. John F. Condon in St. Thomas Cemetery, in the Bronx, New York, with a ransom of $50,000 demanded by kidnapper. Lindberg flies in sky above the area for a clue of his kidnapped child. A kidnapper scales a ladder, tries to reach a baby on first floor but a alarm sounds and he runs back. The mother arrives and picks up her child.

Location: Cuttyhunk Massachusetts USA
Date: 1932, March 14
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036757
Scenes contrasting the frivolous with more ordinary aspects of the "roaring 20's" in America just before depression

Good times depicted in America during the so-called "Roaring Twenties." Automobile workers on a production line or assembly line. Double-decker buses and taxi cabs fill street in New York City. President Calvin Coolidge, accompanied by his dog, quietly fishing from a canoe. Girls in swim suits dancing around a Tuba player at a beach. Young women dancing happily at a cabaret, nightclub, or club. Behind them on stage is Texas Guinan (actress and speakeasy club manager). President Coolidge casting his fishing line, with another person seen in the rear of the canoe. View of couple's feet as they dance the Charleston in a cabaret. Girls,in bathing suits at a beach, run, like a chorus line, at the camera. Next are shown more mundane aspects of the period and some scenes of poor life, poverty, and unemployment shortly before the onset of the Great Depression. A city back street early in the morning. A man washes his face with water from a horse trough. A Milkman steps from his horse-drawn wagon or carriage to deliver two bottles of milk. People buying slabs of ice from an ice house (for their ice boxes at home). Boy and girl stand on slum or tenement fire escape. Laundry drying on clothes lines stretched across tenement alley. Two children in a family lying in a single bed. Other beds in the same crowded tenement apartment. Union-sponsored housing (founded in 1927) in the lower east side of Manhattan with sign affixed reading: "Amalgamated Cooperative Dwellings, 504-520 Grand Street. 83-91 Broome Street." Views of the Cooperative low rent apartment buildings.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1929
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036810
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