Film opens showing a blackboard and chalk sketch of the area in Dallas where U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Key streets and location where Mr. Abraham Zapruder took his 8mm film of the event are pointed out. Other details are identified, including the window from which shots were fired in the Texas School Book Depository Building. Details of distances from various points and timing of shots are narrated. Scene shifts to view from inside a car following the motorcade route. it turns in front of the Texas School Book Depository, where some spectators are watching the activity. Spectators watch on Elm Street,as the car retracing the motorcade route heads toward and through the Triple Underpass. Dallas police officers are seen controlling traffic to facilitate the Secret Service filming. Scene shifts to the Texas Book Depository, where window used by the assassin is pointed out. The camera focuses back as the car follows the original motorcade path.
Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) track race for women athletes held in July 1930, at Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, Texas. Hurdle race is shown on the track. Runners jump over the hurdles. Maybelle Gilliland and team wins the race setting a new world record in the 400 yard hurdle relay race in the National Women's AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) track meet. Maybelle Gilliland poses for a photo. Another race conducted on the track. Runners run at a fast pace. Broad jump event is shown. Contestant throws javelin during the javelin throw event. Closeup view of young woman athlete Babe Didrikson with javelin in hand.
Old motorcar race in Dallas , Texas. An old motor car race underway at Devil's Bowl dirt racing track. Spectators watch the cars race ahead of each other. A.D. Trowell wins the race for the fourth time.
U.S. President Richard Nixon addresses the 72nd National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) of the United States, held in Dallas, Texas. Various members of the VFW speak from the podium. President Richard Nixon arrives on stage and greeted welcome by VFW members. He addresses the convention from the podium.
Aerial acrobat Lillian Boyer transfers from a speeding automobile to a Curtiss JN-4 aircraft in flight, in Dallas,Texas. She climbs up a rope ladder onto the plane.
Barnstorming wing walker Lillian Boyer performs stunt in which she moves from a speeding car onto a Curtiss JN-4 airplane, in flight, at the state fair in Dallas,Texas. After grabbing hold, she climbs up a rope ladder onto the moving aircraft.
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