King Hussein of Jordan arrives at the White House for a 5-day visit in Washington DC, United States. King Hussein steps off from limousine upon arrival at the White House. Photographers take pictures of the young king. King Hussein is greeted by President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the Oval Office.
V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) celebrations in Paris, France at the end of World War II. Crowd of Parisians as they parade on streets on V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day). People with French flag along the street.
Protestors in Washington DC on May 5, 1970, following several days of "MayDay" anti-war protests, against the Vietnam War, organized in part by the National Peace Action Coalition. Wide shot of Washington Monument with helicopters flying near it. Protestors walking into streets in small groups and attempting to block traffic and disrupt traffic and operations in the city as part of a multi day May Day protest. View of police officers blowing whistles and attempting to clear protestors from streets, as cars drive around protestors. Protestors drag a trash can into a street as an obstruction. Police on motorcycles drive by, one passing a Volkswagen bus van. Police directing traffic. A group of hippies and protestors gathered in a median between roads. One protestor is smoking. Another shows a peace sign with his hand. A police officer stands by guarding the seated group. Police in riot gear stand in front of the Justice Department awaiting a noon rally of antiwar protestors. Several thousand protestors show up, exceeding the numbers expected by police. The protestors sing, dance, chant, and clap hands as they fill the road in front of the Justice Department. Police use bull horns warning crowd to disperse or be arrested. Many protestors remain and are shown being arrested and carried away, some without resistance, and others resisting arrest.A hippie protestor being arrested holds up both hands showing peace signs.
Military psychiatric casualty patients of World War II receive medical aid in Brentwood, New York. Some patients learning guitar. The patients under a mental and emotional treatment program at Mason General Hospital improve day by day. A group of patient being given psychotherapy for their post trauma symptoms (like PTSD).
Six day war in middIe east ends as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire. At the United Nations Security Council in the United States: Syrian Ambassador, Russian delegate Nikolay Prokofyevich Fedorenko, Israeli Ambassador Gideon Raphael state their points during the session. War scenes from the Six-day war: Burning buildings. Bodies lying on desert. Prisoners of war are taken by Israeli Defense Forces soldiers (IDF). Prisoners walk with raised hands. Bullet holes in train and car. Damaged military vehicles on streets. Wounded soldiers are moved on stretchers to hospitals. Damaged UAR military vehicles along the Gaza Strip. Arabs under arrest. Egyptian prisoners of war. Empty offices with photo frames of President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser. UAR Commander General Abdul Hussein meets Israeli military leaders. He signs the cease-fire agreement. Israeli flag flutters in wind. In Bethlehem, Palestine: Israeli troops on streets with tanks. Civilians watch the tanks. In Jerusalem: Tanks move through streets and enter city. Women weep. Jewish people on streets. Israeli troops enter the Old City. Defense Minister of Israel, Moshe Dayan with soldiers offers prayers at the Wailing Wall or Western Wall. Israeli troops march through the streets with weapons including some UZI submachine guns.
Returned Frenchmen as they walk through the streets of Paris. Two men push another man in a wheel barrow. Man hangs allied national flags including those of United Stated, Britain, USSR, France, and Belgium, on a building to mark VE Day. Large procession of Parisians as they walk down Champs Elysees Avenue carrying Allied National Flags t celebrate VE Day. People on foot, on cycles and in cars. Throngs of people around Tomb of The Unknown Soldier at Arc de Triomphe. Young men and women celebrate and rejoice on the surrender of Germany. A view of the crowd as they wave to the camera. Procession of Allied National Flags. Girls carrying Free French banner. A glimpse of the crowd at Place de la Concorde. (World War II period).
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