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Soviet achievements in space race in 1959; NASA Astronauts trained for space flight in United States.
President Dwight D Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev shake hands in the White House during Khrushchev's visit in America, soon after recent Soviet advances in the "space race." Closeup images of the moon, and of images of far side of the moon recorded by Soviets, and also brief Soviet Russian science fiction animated scenes depicting space ships traveling toward the moon, and another space ship vessel in orbit near the moon. In United States two monkeys are shown, named Able and Baker who were part of rocket testing before human flights took place. View of a monkey strapped into a Jupiter rocket and launch is shown of a Jupiter rocket with the monkeys for their space flight. Seven astronauts of the Project Mercury program are shown in training in a weightless, or zero gravity chamber.
Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) providing combined rail and air service taking passengers across the U.S.A. from coast-to-coast
Operations of the Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) Company. Aerial view of New York City's Manhattan Island, below. Camera focuses on Pennsylvania Station (Penn Station) seen from above, and then at street level. Travelers purchasing tickets for combined transcontinental rail and air travel at a window in the station. Families seeing travelers off at one of the railroad gates. Temporary sign at gate reads "The Airway Limited, second section." View of passengers on rear car of train as it pulls out. The car displays Pennsylvania Railroad logo sign reading "The Airway Limited, Pennsylvania Railroad." Views of Pennsylvania RR passenger train and closeup of locomotive wheels in motion. Animated relief map shows train proceeding from New York, past Columbus, Ohio, to Port Columbus station in Ohio. Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. billroard at the station shows picture of passengers connecting between a train and an airplane. Billboard reads:"Port Columbus, Eastern Transfer Point, Air-rail Service, Coast-to-Coast." Passengers leaving the train and entering the station waiting rooms. Their baggage being weighed (Narrator says 30 pounds is the allowance.) View from terminal roof, of a Ford 5-AT-B, trimotor passenger airplane ready to accept passengers for the next phase of their travel. A logo on fuselage has "TAT" with small ribbon through it reading, "Transcontinetal Air Transport." View of passengers seated inside the aircraft. The plane taxis and takes off from the Port Columbus airport. Ground is snow-covered, but the runway is plowed. Closeup aerial view of the airplane flying over the city of Columbus, Ohio. Distant view of it flying close to the LeVeque Tower skyscraper (a 47-story Art Deco-style building at 50 West Broad Street). Aerial view of the airplane passing the train, continuing westward, from Port Columbus. Views inside passenger cabin of the plane. Animated map show plane heading to Indiannapolis. Officer hands out TAT illustrated map and points out features to passengers.Closeup of map. Aerial view of the airplane on final approach to land at Indiannapolis airport. Clerk at airport typing arrival message on teletype, and company executives reading it at their headquarters. Animated map show plane moving to St.Louis, Missouri. View from air of Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Passengers in cabin. aerial view of the plane on final approach, over snow, to St. Louis. The aircraft taxiing on ramp and parking at terminal building, where passengers enter, under cover of awning-covered walk. Closeup of the aircraft engines. Inserted view of TAT engine overhaul facility, with Charles Lindbergh, the airline's technical adviser, and TAT officials inspecting the operation.
Fidel Castro arrives at New York's Penn Station and is greeted by cheering Spanish-speaking admirers.
Fidel Castro is cheered by a large crowd in New York City. Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro arrives at New York's Penn Station (351 West 31st Street New York, NY 10001) and is greeted by some 20,000 cheering Spanish-speaking fans and supporters. Adoring crowds waving Cuban flags upon Castro’s arrival. Policemen control the crowd outside the station. Castro waves towards the cheering crowd at Penn Station. Castro crosses the street to the Statler Hilton (now the Hotel Pennsylvania).
FBI student trainees attend lessons, lab technician demonstration in FBI laboratory
FBI agent trainees listen to professor giving lecture at the FBI Academy. Blackboard reads “Jurisdiction of the FBI 1. Statutes 2. Executive Orders 3. Constitutional Provisions”. External view of the U.S. Department of Justice building in Washington DC (950 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20535), original site of FBI headquarters. Sign reads “FBI Laboratory”. Sign reads, “Document Section 7613”. An FBI laboratory technician uses tweezers to reconstruct a piece of burned paper on a table. FBI Academy students observe FBI technician as he presses burned paper pieces between glass plates. FBI Laboratory technician mounting glass plate containing paper fragments on camera stand and taking photograph of it using a large format bellows still camera equipped with infrared film. View of upside document as seen through camera. Close up hands developing photograph that reveals message, "we will hit the bank at Middle Town."
Control room at FBI Field Office radio station KGB-770
Receptionist smiles as a group of FBI Academy interns enter the FBI field office in Washington D.C. ON AIR light turns on at KGB770, the FBI communications network radio station. FBI Academy trainees observe a woman radio operator dispatcher in control room at KGB770. Hand picks up radio handset in car. Finger pressing button on console in radio control room at KGB770. View inside moving car as FBI agent radios field office. View from moving car as it approaches 1450 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20230. View into KGB770 radio control room through observation glass.
FBI Academy students simulate an arrest during exercise in Combat Village, Quantico.
FBI Academy student trainees in Combat Village, an assembly of buildings used for practice by the United States Marines at Quantico. FBI instructor wearing an "umpire" helmet speaks to trainees gathered around table with guns, megaphones, and other equipment. Instructor picks up hand set of military field radio while instructing. FBI Academy students pick up rifles, megaphone, and tools from the table. Close up of FBI Instructor with helmet written “UMPIRE”. Simulating an arrest of a prisoner hiding out, an FBI Academy student demands surrender using a megaphone, saying "this is the FBI...the house is surrounded." Man backs out of doorway with hands up. Man leans against wall, with legs spread. FBI Academy students frisk prisoner and find a hand gun. FBI agents enter the house to search. Prisoner is led away in hand cuffs. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director J. Edgar Hoover speaks from his office, saying, "each of the special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation must be ready and capable to meet any challenge." FBI Academy student leaves his empty dormitory room. FBI Academy students board a bus. Sign nearby reads “FBI Academy”. Bus departs the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia (FBI Academy Building 8-102 Quantico, VA 22135). Men and women exit from the front of the FBI Headquarters in Washington D.C. at the Department of Justice building (950 Pennsylvania Ave NW) in Washington, D.C. “We daily pledge our fidelity, bravery and integrity.”, says J. Edgar Hoover as he ends his speech.
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