Church choir members in white robes line the sidewalk and enter St. Thomas' Parish Episcopal Church, located at 1772 Church Street, NW, in the Dupont Circle area of Washington, D.C. The President and First Lady are seen arriving in the President's 1937 Packard seven-passenger parade touring car, accompanied by several Secret Service agents, walking beside the car and others riding in a car behind. People gather along the sidewalks to get a glimpse of President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Policemen maintain cordons in front of the sightseers. The Presidential motorcade drives up to an awning-covered side entrance of the stone church. Views of the building in the background. Following the worship service, President Roosevelt poses alongside two clergy from the church: Rev. Howard Sargent Wilkinson (Rector at St. Thomas as of 1936) and Rev. Allen O. Miller, Assistant. to the rector. Mrs. Roosevelt is seen behind in a fur coat. The President uses a cane to steady himself. Later the presidential open car departs (bearing license plate with number 101). It is followed by another car carrying Secret Service agents, bearing license plate reading: "USSS" for U.S. Secret Service. (Note: The Sanctuary building of St. Thomas' Parish Church was destroyed by fire, believed to be result of arson, in 1970.)
A film titled, 'Fast record set in outboard motor race by six-time winner' shows participants speeding their motor boats at Biscayne Bay in Miami to win Colonel Green Trophy. Six Times Winner Walter Everett from Tulsa, Oklahoma wins the trophy with a record timing of 44.93 miles per hour. Everett is seen with the Colonel Green Trophy.
Richard Nixon-Spiro Agnew election campaign for the Presidency in United States. Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois talks to a man about Richard Nixon. They sit in an office. He favors Richard Nixon for the Presidential election. Everett Dirksen states that Richard Nixon is capable of taking responsibilities of the U.S. President's job.
Various landmarks in Hood Canal region in Washington, United States. Women on deck of the trim steamer ship S.S. Potlatch (active 1912-1917; scrapped 1937). View from ship of wooded shoreline areas in Hood Canal. Men and women aboard the ferry ship. Homes, dock areas are seen. Wooded shoreline in the background. Snow covered mountains of the Olympic Peninsula in the background, including Mount Olympus. A row boat approaches the ship. Views from ship as it heads northward through the Puget Sound to the San Juan Islands. Close views of the San Juan Islands shorelines seen from the moving S.S. Potlatch.
First public test flight of a vertical takeoff plane of the U.S. Army in California. People near a vertical takeoff plane. The pilot, Lou Everett, enters the plane. Close view of the wings of the plane. The plane rises vertically in the air and then flies away. People look as smoke rises from the distance where the plane has crashed. A rescue truck moves towards it. Wreckage of the crashed plane.
A heartsick Airedale in Del Monte, California. The dog arrives by a plane from Kansas City. The dog in a basket outside the plane. Private Everett Scott and troops from Scott's company watch the dog. An officer pets the dog.
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