Perry O. Stoughton sets on a 1000-mile voyage to San Diego on his sailing raft from Crescent City in California. Canned food and a barrel of drinking water is aboard the raft. Large crowd gathers at the peer to bid him farewell.
Horatio Casterbuilt of Coyote Canyon, Oregon displays a hat in which he fitted an electric fan to ward off the heat. Casterbuilt poses for the camera wearing his battery powered hat.
Scenes of Amelia Earhart taxiing her Lockheed Vega 5B airplane to the ramp, at Oakland Airport, on January 12, 1935, having left Wheeler Field, Honolulu the day before. This completed her solo flight from Honolulu, Hawaii (the first person to successfully accomplish such a transpacific flight). Crowds her airplane as she taxis in, and parks near a hangar of the U.S. Naval Air Station. Amelia stands in the cockpit of her airplane, holding a bouquet of flowers, as crowds mill about on the ramp beneath. Change of scene shows Amelia standing on a steel platform, of the airport tower, with her husband, George Putnam. Closeups of Amelia.
Scenes from America's annual harness racing event, the Hambletonian being held at Goshen in New York. Shows trotters racing and spectators cheering for their favorites from the stands.
Watts riots in Los Angeles City blocks decimated by fire. Buildings burning at night. Police leading two men who have been arrested. National Guard soldiers patrolling the streets. Burn out buildings the day afterwards. L.A. sheriff's car on street. L.A. police exiting a transport bus. National Guard soldiers behind a street barricade. Aerial view of line of police in the streets. Helicopter above parking lot with police and press vehicles.
Riots, looting, and arson during an outbreak of urban racial violence in Detroit, Michigan. Entire blocks of homes on fire as seen at night. 36 are dead, over a thousand injured during period of unrest in the civil rights movement. A fire truck arrives at the scene. A house on fire. Firemen put out fire. A building engulfed in flames. Sniper groups keep watch outside shops to prevent looting. A looted and trashed shop. Storefront window glass is shattered. People walk on the trashed streets of Detroit. Firemen use jets of water to put out fire. President Lyndon B. Johnson denounces the riots and urges national law and order. “Pillage, looting, murder, and arson have nothing to do with civil rights” President Johnson said.
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