View of black smoke rising behind McCullough Homes housing project from fires burning in the business district, in Baltimore, Maryland, during riots in 1968, following assassination death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. View of the Maryland State Office complex and parking lot filled with cars, across the street from the housing project.
Activities of the United States Army after the Baltimore Riots following death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. U.S. Officers look at a map. One of them points at the map. Another officer talks over a phone. A man enters the office of Maryland State Headquarters. A soldier stands guard outside the office.
Activities of the United States Army after the Baltimore Riots following death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Views of Druid Hill Park. A jeep moves on a road near a staging area. Tents and a flag in the staging area. Views of a street near a pond. Signs : 'Laurens St.' and 'Franks Super Market'.
Scenes from game 7 of the World Series in 1934: Detroit Tigers, of Detroit, Michigan play against the St. Louis Cardinals from St. Louis, Missouri, at Navin Field in Detroit Michigan. The players include Frankie Frisch, Mickey Cochrane, Dizzy Dean and Joe "Ducky" Medwick. The players playing the game. Notable persons watching the game include: Henry Ford, son Edsel Ford, Will Rogers and R Judge Landis (Kenesaw Mountain Landis), the first Commissioner of Major League Baseball. A large crowd of spectators watch the game in the stadium. Fans throw pop bottles and fruit onto the field in the 6th inning of game 7 after Cardinals star Ducky Wucky Medwick slides into the Detroit 3rd baseman Marv Owen. Medwick is removed from the game by Commissioner Landis. St. Louis Cardinals with its infamous "Gashouse Gang" win the game and the series. From a "25 years ago today" retrospective in a UN newsreel, dated September 24, 1959.
Wives of the navy men aboard the USS aircraft carrier Yorktown in the United States. The wives greet and join their husbands for a day's cruise aboard the mighty floating aircraft. They take a meal together aboard the ship. One couple wears flight suit.
A modern automated station wagon automobile with many new features is shown in Chicago. It is a 1956 Chrysler Plymouth Plainsman, designed by David Scott and built by Ghia as an experimental Station Wagon. The car displays a Texas longhorn cattle emblem. Various modern and inventive features and gadgets of the car are shown, such as a tail light that moves forward to reveal the gas tank filling tube, a powered rear door, a powered retracting step for children to enter the rear of the car, power folding seats, and unique taillight design. A woman with children stands beside the car. The boy and girl children climb up in the back of the car and sit facing toward the back. The car drives away and the children smile as the automatic rear window closes.
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