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Greenville North Carolina USA 1951 stock footage and images

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Inaugural ceremony for Voice of America transmitter at Greenville, North Carolina.

A station wagon enters a gate and drives to front of Voice of America building. American flag stands out on pole, in stiff breeze. Several buses arrive. Edward R. Murrow, famous radio broadcaster, and now also Director of the U.S. Information Agency, steps from the first bus, smoking a cigarette, and leads a contingent of officials and media people into the building. All are seated in a hall. Murrow is seated next to the podium, where Voice of America Director, Henry Loomis, addresses the gathering. Several other officials also speak. The last speaker is Mr. Murrow, who also presents Mr. Loomis a distinguished service award. View of the award document.

Date: 1963, February 8
Duration: 5 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033239
United States soldiers check equipment at Donaldson Air Force Base, Greenville.

Insignia of 433rd Troop Carrier Wing. 69th Infantry Regiment Troops stand next to equipment, outside tents during final inspection at Donaldson Air Force Base, Greenville, South Carolina. Soldiers check inflated life-rack and equipment in front of the raft. Truck with equipment backed up to C-119 flying Boxer. Steel unit rolled into plane. Soldiers nail and staple wooden crates. Mechanics work on C-119 Flying Boxer engine. Insignia 'Fighting 69th' on side of airplane.

Date: 1951
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675023546
Delegates of The Pan American Highway Commission visit North Carolina

The Pan American Highway Commission officials received by Cameron A. Morrison, Governor of North Carolina. Governor Morrison and the delegates pose for a photo on steps of a building. The commission visits the Highway Equipment Depot near Raleigh and inspects the machinery. They proceed towards University of North Carolina. Traffic signs and direction boards on road sides. University of North Carolina college students give a cheer and greet the group. The commission buses, cars, motorcycles and motorcycles with sidecars are seen traveling on highway roads in North Carolina. The commission members observe road machinery and try out the machines including early tractors, graders, scrapers, and plows, trench diggers, and steam shovels. Two delegate members ride in the bucket of a steam shovel. They halt at the newly completed Wilcox Bridge spanning the Yadkin River near Spencer, North Carolina. A view of the caravan on the open-spandrel (open support system) Wilcox Bridge over the Yadkin River and then in a North Carolina town. The group entering Bessemer city in North Carolina, where a welcome banner spans the roadway.

Date: 1924
Duration: 4 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030547
President Harry S. Truman addresses ground-breaking ceremony at Wake Forest College in North Carolina, United States

33rd U.S. President Harry S. Truman addresses a huge gathering at a ground breaking of the Reynolda Campus of Wake Forest College in North Carolina. President is shown arriving in a U.S. Air force C-121 Lockheed Constellation aircraft. Terminal of the airport can be seen. People have gathered to welcome the president. Clip shows several views of his speech at the ground-breaking ceremony and views of his arrival and departure from the airport. On arrival he is seen shaking hands with North Carolina governor W. Kerr Scott. He also greets College President Harold W. Tribble. During the Wake Forest University ground-breaking ceremony other dignitaries seen include Charles Babcock, Judge Hubert Olive, Odis Mull. Students and citizens seen in audience listening to President, including some students waving confederate flags.

Date: 1951, October 15
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032376
Experimental wind tunnel and souvenir to Orville Wright at the Wright brother's workshop in Dayton, Ohio.

Wright brother's workshop where they began work on their first plane in Dayton, Ohio. The experimental wind tunnel of the Wright brothers, kept on a test bench. Interior of the wind tunnel. A photograph of first take off at Kitty hawk, North Carolina. A souvenir on the eighteenth birthday anniversary of Orville Wright, on August 19, 1951.

Date: 1951, November
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036846
U.S. 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers land on rugged terrain and maneuver as jets strafe in North Carolina.

U.S. 82nd Airborne Division makes preparation and maneuvers showing defense strength in North Carolina. Air Force personnel and aircraft at air base. Heavy equipment are loaded onto aircraft. Paratroopers of U.S. 82nd Airborne Division wear military gear and prepare for maneuver under Commander Thomas P. Hickey. Paratroopers board the aircraft. The paratroopers seated in the aircraft. The aircraft in flight. Parachutists jump from the aircraft. The parachutists descend and land on a rugged terrain. Several paratroopers get wounded due to failure landing. The paratroopers move into action and get alert. They fire artillery and army tanks. Troops maneuver and face attacks as jets strafe.

Date: 1951, August 27
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071429