General Curtis LeMay being sworn in as Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force at the White House in Washington DC, United States. The White House in Washington DC. Air Force Secretary Eugene M Zuckert administers the oath of office to General LeMay at the White House portico. President John F Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson, Senator Dennis Chavez and Stuart Symington, General Thomas D White, General Lyman Lemnitzer and General Nathan F Twining in the background. President Kennedy, Secretary Eugene and General LeMay carrying bibles as they step down to the porch of the White House. Secretary Eugene Zuckert swears in General LeMay as the Chief of Staff of the USAF as he speaks into a microphone. After the swearing in President Kennedy speaks at the microphone. The President reads out a citation over the microphone. The citation being presented to General LeMay. General LeMay speaks into the microphone. Vice President Johnson, Senator Dennis Chavez and Stuart Symington, General Thomas D. White congratulate General LeMay. General LeMay being kissed by his wife and shakes hands with General Nathan Twining and General Lyman Lemnitzer.
American college football game between Michigan State Spartans and Oregon State Beavers in Portland, Oregon. Michigan State defeats Oregon State by 17-14. A on-screen PSA appears at the end, with a message encouraging viewers to vote in American elections, "Vote your choice, but VOTE!"
Socialist Eugene V Debs waves his hat in front of U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. He walks towards people waiting. Telegram from Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty informing Warden of the U.S. Penitentiary that the President (Harding) had commuted the sentence of Eugene V. Debs . Debs poses with two women and a man while exiting the White House in Washington DC soon after his release. He walks off with a group of friends.
Eugene Claude Harmon wins the 1948 Masters Golf Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club (2604 Washington Rd, Augusta, GA 30904, United States) in Augusta, Georgia. Golf players hit balls on the golf course. The golf players include Eugene Claude Harmon, Lloyd Mangrum, Emmett Cary Middlecoff, and Bobby Locke. Spectators watch the tournament. Claude Harmon wins the Masters Tournament. He receives a trophy. Cary Middlecoff places second.
The disappearance of American aviatrix Amelia Earhart in 1937. A smiling Amelia Earhart stands with a man, possibly Fred Noonan. Earhart and crew loading up an airplane parked in a hanger. May 20, 1937, Lockheed Model 10-E Electra taking off from Oakland, California bound for Miami, Florida on the first leg of Earhart's second attempt at an around-the-world flight. Earhart and her navigator disappear during the flight and are last heard from on July 2, 1937. A huge air sea search is undertaken to find them. An aircraft carrier underway at sea. Airplane parked on the flight deck. Bi-Planes fly in formation during search.
'Retrospect' about the events that led to the present pattern of life in the United States. Host Douglas Edwards, an American television anchor speaks about the past events in America. Crowd of unemployed men gathering in bread lines after the 1929 crash and subsequent Great Depression. A man near a box of apples. The U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses a gathering. The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the son of the aviator Charles Lindbergh in 1932. Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German carpenter who abducted the child during the trial. The congressmen at the formation of the Lindbergh Law. Newspapers describe the apprehension or death of notorious mafia gangster criminals, such as Dutch Schultz and Baby Face Nelson. Huey Pierce Long, Jr. a American politician addresses people. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia appeals to the League of Nations, after his country is attacked by Italy under Mussolini. Adolf Hitler stands. Troops of the German army parade. Scenes from the Spanish Civil War in 1936-1937 as Spanish national forces battle against fascist rebel forces. Spanish Troops fire 75mm field artillery pieces. Bombs being dropped on the buildings. Spanish soldiers marching during the civil war. The Hindenburg disaster takes place on May 6th 1937: The German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg catches fire over the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in Manchester, New Jersey. Amelia Earhart the first woman aviator to fly solo holds flowers and is surrounded by people. She went missing in 1937. Cowboy philosopher Will Rogers, alone and with U.S. Vice President John Nance Garner and with aviator Wiley Post (who had patch over one eye). King Edward VIII of Great Britain, abdicating the throne for "the woman I love." People at the German-American Bund Nazi sympathizing gathering including the subduing of objectors on stage, in Madison Square Garden, New York. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, returning from meeting with Adolf Hitler in Munich in 1938. View of Adolf Hitler. German tanks on parade in World War II. an array of artillery guns on display. Railway guns being fired in WW2.
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