Kidnapping case of twenty months old child of aviator Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. Grand Jury hearing in New York. Colonel Lindbergh arrives at court, protected by several policemen. Crowd outside court building. Policemen and detectives inspect suspect Hauptmann's house in the Bronx, New York. Jury members give their verdict that prime suspect Bruno Richard Hauptmann wrote all kidnap notes. Police official gives his statements. Lindbergh moves out of court, sits in car and drives away. Hauptmann's wife, Anna Schoeffler Hauptmann, seen singing a bedtime song in German to her young child, Manfred Hauptmann (Manfred Richard Hauptmann).
Traditional Communion Breakfast attended by members of the Motion Picture Industry in New York City. Men and women enter through the door of the Roman Catholic St. Patrick’s Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). A communion ceremony at St. Patrick's Cathedral attended by members of film industry. After the mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Motion Picture Industry members assemble for breakfast (likely at the Waldolf Astoria Hotel). Motion Picture Industry Members from rank and file, union leaders and high company executives at the breakfast tables. A Roman Catholic priest sits with Motion Picture Industry executives during the breakfast.
Preparations for departure of victory ship from New York to Great Britain, at the end of World War II. Maritime Commission members meet with the representatives of British Ministry of War Transport, at New York City. Members and officers discuss problems of wartime shipping. Phrase 'Time is Short' written on top of a door behind the chairman.
Pedestrians walk in congested area on New York City sidewalks. Ambulance and policemen arrive to help an injured person among the crowd. Children play on the sidewalks, hang dangerously behind trucks and buses. Boys build and play with soapbox derby style homemade play cars. Children search trashcans on roads. Teenager boys dive ans swim from a moored tug boat or barge into New York waters. A dock worker chases them off the boat and into the water. Person enters a parked Queens Taxi Cab car. View of a parked car backing up and striking the bumper of another parked car. A boy playing stickball swings the bat and hits a ball through a nearby window glass pane, shattering it. and car glasses broken by throwing stones.
German flying boat Dornier Do-X arrives in New York at the end of its journey. Plane glides in the sky over the Hudson River and the George Washington Bridge. Several small planes accompany it during the flight. It circles the Statue of Liberty and lands in the bay. Spectators on several boats observe it. Several large and small boats surround the flying boat in the sea. Skyscrapers of New York near the sea shore.
Wendell Willkie, the Republican candidate for 1940 Presidential elections in United States, during a campaign rally at Buffalo, New York. Members of 'Willkie Youth Club' raise a banner. Supporters raise various banners during the rally on jammed streets. Huge crowd of supporters at the Buffalo cheer for him at the new memorial stadium. Mr and Mrs Willkie wave at the crowd.
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