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Bruce Dicky and CY Thomas speak on importance of Interstate highways in Kansas City, Kansas.

Bruce Dicky, of Farmer's State Bank in Lenexa, Kansas, speaks on importance of roads for prosperous growth of people. He comments about the growth of housing and industry in Lenexa since the I-35 interstate highway came to town. Scenes of a road, on a side of a lake. Traffic moving on roads. Houses in newly built suburbs are seen along sides of highways. View of industries and suburban shopping centers of the 1950's near Kansas City, with many 1950's cars parked in parking lots, made possible by expanding roads and highway systems in America. Building of a cancer research center. C Y Thomas, a doctor speaks on how I-35 highway access influenced the location of a new research center in Kansas City. Various manufacturing and light industry businesses are seen along American highways. Sign visible on one says "Electronic Specialty Co." Interstate 287 with traffic moving on it. Industries and buildings linked with roads.

Location: Kansas City Kansas USA
Date: 1956
Duration: 3 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023853
Park for couples in love urged by a judge in Kansas City, Kansas.

A judge seeks to have a park set aside for dating couples in love (a park for spooners, per the slate), in Kansas City, Kansas. Exteriors of Wyandotte County Courthouse building in Kansas City; and 1930's cars on the roads. Judge seated at his desk. Scene of a young man and young woman romantic couple in a park walking and sitting on a park bench together. Next scene shows a dating couple seated on a couch. The boy's young brother is seated in a chair beside them granting them no privacy. The older brother reaches in his pocket for money and pays his little brother so he will get up and leave the room. The dating couple hugs on the sofa.

Location: Kansas City Kansas USA
Date: 1935, September 23
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060556
People gather to collect water supplied from Kansas City, Missouri to the drought-stricken city of Louisburg in Kansas.

Supply of free water in drought-stricken city of Louisburg in Kansas during Great Depression. Tank cars carrying water in the area. A banner on a tank car reads: 'Free Water from Kansas City, Missouri to Louisburg, Kansas'. People gather to have water. A tank car at a rail road.

Location: Louisburg Kansas USA
Date: 1936, August 26
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076829
1st Cavalry Division rides on the grounds of Fort Bliss, Texas.

The 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Bliss, Texas. The soldiers standing outside a building. The soldiers mount their horses and ride off together. Trees and mountains in the background. Mounted troops riding towards open terrain. Buildings and water tower of Fort Bliss seen in the background. (World War II period).

Location: Fort Bliss Texas USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063104
A demonstration of messages sent by carrier pigeons at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

A pigeon carrier demonstration at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Pigeons in a cage are used for transferring messages. A soldier writes a message on a paper and ties it on a pigeon's leg. Pigeon back at Fort Monmouth. A soldier takes out the paper from its foot. (World War II period).

Location: Fort Monmouth New Jersey USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043868
President Harry S. Truman arrives at Kansas City's Fairfax Airport and proceeds to a homecoming at Truman house in Independence

Preparations for the homecoming of U.S. President Harry S. Truman to the Kansas City area for the first time since becoming President of the United States. View from Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas. Cameras mounted on car as cameramen record the arrival of President Truman. Customized U.S. Army Air Force C-54 Skymaster aircraft nicknamed "Sacred Cow" lands and taxis. (This VC-54C was built for Franklin Roosevelt, but he only flew on it for one trip before his death. The name "Sacred Cow" was a precursor to the name "Air Force One." The trip by Truman in this video clip was the first domestic airplane trip by a U.S. President in history. Prior trips by Franklin Roosevelt had all been international travel.) People gathered in a large number to welcome the President. President Truman and others in his party get off the aircraft. Arrival of President Truman at the Truman home in Independence, Missouri (his summer White House). Roger T. Sermon, Mayor of Independence greets the President's car as it arrives. Secret Service stand by near car and President while Truman greets well-wishers. Gathering in the back yard of the Truman home with members of the Independence Chamber of Commerce. From left to right: Cedric Siegfried, Al Huff, Richard Harbin, President Truman, George Hare, Dixon Kepley, Paul Snyder, Petey Childers. Photographers click pictures.

Location: Kansas City Kansas USA
Date: 1945, June 27
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022063
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