1955 air disasters in the United States. Wreckage of United Air Lines Flight 629, a Douglas DC-6B aircraft (N37559, Mainliner Denver) that was blown up over Longmont, Colorado on November 1, 1955, by a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage. The crash site of United Air Lines Flight, a Douglas DC-4 propline (N30062), in Medicine Bow Peak, near Laramie, Wyoming. Dead bodies carried out from wrecked plane. Crowd watches.
British World War 2 era film showing scenes in the United States from earlier in the 1900s. Film opens showing 19th Century animated map of the United States. It traces the development of the railroads in the U.S. It shows rail lines reaching the Missouri River by the year 1860. (Narrator states this took 250 years to happen.) But in another 10 years, the map shows the Union Pacific and other rail lines extending two the West Coast, and U.S. commerce shifting, from North-South movement, to East-West (with an animated steam locomotive moving across the map). Chicago is highlighted as the greatest railway junction in the world (the "Piccadilly Circus" as the British narrator describes it). View of a late 1800s model steam locomotive train pulling freight railroad cars on railroad tracks in a desert area of the Western United States. Point of view from camera on moving railroad train pointing straight down at railroad tracks moving by at high speed. Landscape and wide views of the arid Western parts of the U.S. Group of Native American Indians watching a railroad train pass. Construction supplies being offloaded from a train. A wind-driven water pump. Buffalo herds affected by the railroads. Wire fencing installed to control cattle on large Western ranches. Large team of horses pulling late 1800s wheat harvesting farm equipment as it harvests wheat in fields. Views of wheat grains being poured at high volume. Cattle roaming in the high country. Views of Chicago stock yards. A man marking in chalk on a Board of Trade chalk board, indicating the prices of farm commodities including wheat, corn, oats, and rye. Various views of steam locomotives pulling trains throughout the rail network, including some 20th century trains near the end of the film, and some close-up views of wheels turning fast on moving railroad trains.
The United States General Dwight Eisenhower gives a message in United States during World War II. He sits on a chair. Several documents and articles lay in front of him on the table. The British and United States flags in background. He urges for the purchase of war bonds.
Richard Nixon-Spiro Agnew election campaign for the office of Presidency in United States. Men sit in front of wrecked buildings in Vietnam. Dead Vietnamese and United States soldiers. Vietnamese civilians weep. A view of United States soldiers posted in Vietnam. Richard Nixon promises the end of Vietnam War during presidential campaign.
Richard Nixon-Spiro Agnew election campaign for the office of Presidency in United States. View of unpaved road in rural U.S. Unemployed citizens and poor people in United States. View of a farm. A man stands in a building. The U.S. flag on the building. A child sits near a window. A woman with her child sits on chair. Women stand. A ship being built in a shipyard. Men work at construction site. A man works near a harbor. Two men stand near a stream. A man with his child in front of a waterfall. Richard Nixon promises progress in United States.
Richard Nixon-Spiro Agnew election campaign for the office of Presidency in United States. A dirt road in rural U.S. A homeless man on a park bench. Unemployed citizens and poor people in United States. View of a farm. A man stands in a building. The U.S. flag on the building. A man sits on a bench. A child sits near a window. A woman with her child sits on a chair. Several children stand in the mud.. Women stand. A boy stands alone in a house. Men work at construction site. A man works near a harbor. Two men stand near a stream. A man with his child in front of a waterfall. Richard Nixon promises progress in United States.
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