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President Dwight D. Eisenhower parries newsmen 's questions at an informal press conference in Key West, Florida.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's plans for 1956 are still a secret after a press conference in Key West, Florida. President Eisenhower speaks at an informal press conference. Newsmen question him about his plans for 1956. The President parries newsmen 's questions and smiles.
Fidel Castro raises funds, buy arms and ammunition in the United States and Mexico, for the revolution in Cuba.
Cuban rebels against the Batista government work in exile in the U.S. and Mexico in 1956. New York encircled on the U.S. map. View of papers fluttering all around baseball field as the freedom fighters' leaflets cause a delay in a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York. Players on the baseball field view the scene. Miami encircled on the U.S. map. Castro raises funds for the revolution in Miami. Police and officials inspect arms confiscated from the revolutionaries. Close up scene of a payoff, with money changing hands between two men. Mexico City and Quintana encircled on a map. A huge war chest is raised in Mexico City. Castro buys arms and a 58 foot yacht equipped to carry fourteen people in Quintana. Ammunition dumped into a carton. Aerial view of an island. Wheel house on Castro's boat, the Granma, that goes aground. Officers and men on the boat. The radio operator sends a message dictated by an officer leading to ambush of the rebels by troops and police loyal to Batista. Soldiers load ammunition, stand guard, and enter gates. Some of Castro's men escape to the Sierra Maestra Mountains. A woman lays flowers on a revolutionists' grave, killed during the ambush by Batista's men. Men with load on horses. They cross a stream. A man with a machine gun. Soldiers advance in the jungle, talk to civilians and rest. Soldiers eat fruits, including girls who have joined Castro's movement. Fidel Castro seated in a chair while a man trims his hair. Soldiers shoot at a plane in the sky. A soldier loads his rifle. A woman stitches a shirt with the name 'JULIO' on it. A woman dries clothes on a clothes line.
United States Coast Guards on rescue mission, during a training session in Miami, Florida.
United States Coast Guard helicopter lands on ground. Guards rescue civilians and save property in Miami, Florida. View of Coast Guard Miami Score board. Helicopters parked in line at Florida Air Station. Board of 'Busiest Air-Sea rescue Unit in the World' with United States Coast Guard insignia on top. Coast Guard helicopter patrols above the city. Helicopter lands on water surface to rescue during a training session. A Coast Guard rescues a man and puts him aboard the helicopter. Pilot checks the aircraft before flight. Engineers inspect helicopters inside hangar. Coast Guard operator speaks over phone. Technician draws diagram on paper. The pilot and Coast guard rescue team rush to board the helicopter. Helicopter taxis and takes off.
Views of a typical small town in the midwestern United States in the 1950s, Ottumwa, Iowa.
In a U.S. Army documentary, an Army Sergeant walks on sidewalks of a typical 1950 small town in the rural United States -- Ottumwa, Iowa. Civilians on streets of the city. Various shops and 1940s and 1950s era automobiles. People from various walks of life talk to the Sergeant. The Sergeant recalls the town's ancestors entering America. The Des Moines river is shown with a small boat anchored at the end of a dock and men and boys fishing. Statue of Native American Indian Chief atop the Courthouse Building, Chief Wapello, whose tribe camped in the spot of the town years prior. The entrance of the library. Still images and drawings from the library depicting the town. Pictures of houses, shops and other buildings. People on the streets of Ottumwa. The Ottumwa Daily Courier newspaper headline announcing U.S. participation in World War I, "War Becomes Actuality." Images of members from Ottumwa's own Company G, 42nd Rainbow Division in WWI, including soldiers Arthur Menge, Charles Orman, Marlow Work. Views of WWI battle scenes. Oscar Nelson is remembered for heroism. WWI soldiers returning to American towns. Private Charles Orman 40 years later in Ottumwa. He enters a barber shop. Art Menge is also seen in the Barber shop. Aerial view of the city with many bridges, plants, factories, and homes visible. Cars and pedestrians on streets, The Ottumwa Bank, the Airport with a plane parked in front of the terminal, the Railroad train station with people waiting as a large sleek silver passenger train pulls up and arrives. The Hoffmann Drug store, the Ottumwa Hotel, The Ottumwa Daily Courier newspaper building, the Glover Motor Company, the Union Bank, and the Sunnyslope Sanitorium. Various homes and neighborhoods and 1950s automobiles. Governor Herschel Loveless, an Ottumwa native, at home with his wife. The home on Davis Street of the Miss Universe contest winner Carol Morris, and views of Ms. Morris in the pageant and receiving the winners crown in 1956.
President Kennedy watches Saturn rocket launch with Florida Senator George A. Smathers and Wernher von Braun
Crowds gathered in front of the United States Air Force One aircraft (VC-137C SAM 26000) after the arrival of United States President John F. Kennedy at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Honor guard holding the flag of the United States. President Kennedy sits in a car with Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), James E. Webb, and Air Force Missile Test Center (AFMTC) Commander Major General Leighton I. Davis. Later astronauts Major Gordon Cooper and Major Gus (Virgil) Grissom in a quick shot brief the President about the Gemini capsule. The car with the president drives away. President Kennedy, wearing sunglasses, stands at the base and looks upward to see the Saturn Rocket. President Kennedy is accompanied by Florida Senator George A. Smathers and aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun. President Kennedy flies by USMC UH-3A helicopter to the U.S. Navy ship USS Observation Island (EAG-154).
Scenes of New York City buildings and of the New York World's Fair in 1940
From the Ford Motor Company produced film, "Scenes From the World of Tomorrow" documenting the 1939-1940 World's Fair in New York City. View of buildings of the New York World's Fair of 1940. The Brooklyn Bridge. Aerial view of Manhattan Island, New York City. Skyscrapers of New York City including the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building. New York Harbor and ships in the harbor. View of the buildings of the New York Worlds Fair in the distance in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, as seen from high in a skyscraper of New York City. The Fair's Trylon and Perisphere stand out. People walk along the sides of fountains and waterways at the fair. Crowds milling about, bands marching, dancers performing. Flags of many nations flying on the flag poles. Celebration of the 150th anniversary of George Washington, as the first President of the United States and a statue of George Washington. A bus moves on the street. Fountains and a small bridge near a waterway. Pavilions of nations of England, Japan, and Italy. The USA building and some of the buildings of U.S. States including Maine and Florida. Fountains and waterways of the fair. Woman and two girls eat ice cream cones. A Raymond Loewy - designed S1 experimental streamlined locomotive created for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pavilions of American Telephone & Telegraph and of United States Steel Corporation, also of Westinghouse, Goodrich, Chrysler, and General Motors.
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