The Selective Service System (SSS) in United States, its functioning and effects. Officials of selection boards and assembly of people selected for various services. Women workers busy working in an office. Map of United States shows distribution of SSS offices in various states, in New York and in Washington DC. A man discusses with his father various streams of work under different departments of Selective Service System. His mother arrives and talks to them.
The December 1, 1969 Draft Lottery for the year 1970 is held at the United States Selective Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. The draft lottery is led by General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service Director. The ceremony begins with a benediction, and then an official pours slips of paper containing birth dates into a glass bowl. Congressman Alexander Pirnie of New York draws the first birth date. He declares the date, September 14, and another man pastes the birth date next to a number on a board. Members of the Selective Service Youth Advisory Committee draw additional birth dates and the board is filled out with the draft sequence.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh aboard USS Saratoga (CV-3) in the Pacific near the Panama Canal. Charles Lindbergh seen in a Boeing F3B-1 carrier based fighter bomber (BuNo A-7739) from Bombing Squadron VB-2B aboard the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. Lindbergh visited the USS Saratoga on 8 February 1929. He was aboard for two days and while he was there he was invited to fly the new Boeing F3B-1. The VB-2B made him an honorary member of the squadron. U.S. Navy officers talk to Lindbergh on the deck of Saratoga, including Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves (aka "Bull" Reeves), A.P. Storrs, and W.V. Davis. Pilots pose for a photo with Lindbergh. Lindbergh seated in the aircraft. Squadron emblem of Felix the cat holding a spherical bomb is painted on side of plane. Plane takes off from the carrier deck. Lindbergh, U.S. Military and Navy officials aboard Saratoga talk to each other. Another naval ship can be seen in the sea. Bow of the aircraft carrier.
Kidnapping of twenty month child of aviator Charles Lindbergh, Cuttyhunk, Massachusetts. Negotiator for Lindberg, Dr. John F. Condon in St. Thomas Cemetery, in the Bronx, New York, with a ransom of $50,000 demanded by kidnapper. Lindberg flies in sky above the area for a clue of his kidnapped child. A kidnapper scales a ladder, tries to reach a baby on first floor but a alarm sounds and he runs back. The mother arrives and picks up her child.
Planetarium and other educational sites in Chicago, Illinois United States. Mother and her child enter the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum (1300 S DuSable Lk Shr Dr, Chicago, IL 60605, United States) in Chicago. A couple also enters. Exhibitions inside the planetarium include displays about various planets and the solar system. Scene changes to a new location in an educational center or museum. Children look inside a model to learn hatching of eggs. A working model of railway station and model trains operating.
The modern campus of the University of Illinois, in Chicago. Film opens showing architectural model of the proposed new campus designed by Architect Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM). Camera pans over the campus features, zooming in on the Circle Forum, a Greek-styled amphitheater built for plays, assemblies and concerts. Film shifts to students, and others, walking on a circular pavement. The University Hall is seen in background, flanked by two construction derricks. Views of various features of the spread out campus areas and buildings showing the concrete roofs forming the so-called "Great Court." Closeup vertical view of University Hall. More views of the extant campus. (construction is still underway.) Students walking along the Great Court with the multilevel construction visible. Closeups of students and others riding an escalator and conversing. Students in large classroom lecture hall where the Professor has written notes in chalk on a blackboard for the class, referring to revenue bills originating in the U.S. House of Representatives. Closeups of the Professor and students. Candid shots of a student's resting and relaxing in various places on the campus.
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