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Bomb damaged Place de la Concorde and unscathed Champs Elysees, Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame in Paris after WWII.

Results of selective strategic bombing by the British Royal and United States Eighth Air Forces in German-occupied Paris and surrounding areas during World War II. September 1944: Pont de Grenelle bridge over the Seine river. Eiffel Tower (Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 Paris, France) in the background. The Statue of Liberty replica on the Ile aux Cygnes Island (Pont de Grenelle, 75015 Paris, France). Shell blast damaged buildings and the Obelisk at Place de la Concorde (75008 Paris, France). Cyclists and motorists at the Place. Military cars pass the Arc de Triomphe (Place Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France) at Champs Elysees. Civilians around the Eiffel Tower. The French flag atop the undamaged tower. Unscathed Notre Dame de Paris (6 Parvis Notre-Dame - Pl. Jean-Paul II, 75004 Paris, France). United States military vehicles in the square before the cathedral. GIs and Parisians crowding in front of the Cathedral. An FFI (French Forces of the Interior) flag at Notre Dame.

Date: 1944, September
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021871
Dramatization depicts production, black marketing of gas coupons and citizens' responsibilities in supporting World War 2 gas rationing.

'No Alternative' dramatizes citizens' responsibilities in supporting gas rationing in the United States. Dramatization: Group of men seated playing card game. Tom interrupts a poker game to lecture on rationing, after Bob offers an illegal gas coupon to Frank. He talks about the production of automotive gasoline, increasing price and limited production of crude oil. Uses of crude oil: U.S. airmen and soldiers use crude oil to fuel aircraft and tanks. A U.S. aircraft drops bombs made with the use of crude oil. Workers produce synthetic rubber from crude oil at a plant. U.S. Navy ships, merchant fleets, railroads and war industries use crude oil. Tom explains how "black market" coupons cause shortages that affect war industries and military activities. Dramatization depicts safe breakers breaking into a ration board and stealing gas coupons worth 11 million gallons. Gasoline used by farmers in tractors, to take produce to the markets, finished ammunition, guns and tanks to the railroad stations so that they can be sent to the front. Tom points out ways to make rationing work and save gasoline including: formation of car pools, scorning illegal coupons, identifying coupons with the user's license number.

Date: 1944
Duration: 7 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021885
U.S. President Kennedy's accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is shot in the Dallas Police Headquarters basement by Jack Ruby

The murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of U.S. President John F Kennedy. The basement of the Dallas Police Headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Dallas detectives, police officers and guards in the basement. Jack Ruby seen standing to right side among press persons just before Oswald is led into the corridor. Detective Jim Leavelle and others emerge with Oswald. Jack Ruby leaps in front of Oswald, and shoots him with a snub nosed Colt Cobra .38. The detectives and policemen grab Ruby and Oswald and quickly take them away. Confusion in the basement. Media persons click pictures and record films. Detectives hold off the media. Waiting police vans and cars outside the building. Entrance to the Police Headquarters.

Date: 1963, November 24
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021907
U.S. soldiers string communication lines in trenches and put on gas masks on the frontline in France during World War I.

United States soldiers in France during World War I. U.S. soldiers in frontline trenches. A soldier strings communication lines in the trenches. U.S. Medics with the Medics arm band. Soldiers emerge from a bunker in a trench on the battle front. They survey the surrounding area. Soldiers with guns man their posts. Sand bagged barricades in and around the trench. U.S. Army soldiers put on gas masks.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021971
U.S. soldiers receive food in a chow line and carry equipment in frontline trenches in France during World War I.

United States soldiers in France during World War I. U.S. soldiers in a chow line on the battle front. Soldiers serve their comrades hot food from steaming kettles and pots on a wheeled cart. Troops receive food and eat. They move along in a line. Soldiers in trenches carry equipment and large metal drink or soup containers.

Date: 1918
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021973
U.S. War Secretary Baker and General Pershing inspect U.S. positions in France during World War I.

United States officials and officers in France during World War I. U.S. Secretary of War Newton D Baker and American Expeditionary Force (AEF) Commander General John Pershing inspect U.S. positions in France. Baker and Pershing with French General Joseph Joffre at the docks. Numerous American and French officials and officers follow. Smoke from stacks in the background. Aerial cranes at work. General Pershing reviews U.S. troops in front of U.S. barracks. Troops march with the U.S. flag.

Date: 1918
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021975