Calendar image shows March 1933, with the 4th and 5th of March circled. View of St. Thomas’ Parish (1517 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20036, United States). Presidential limousine in church driveway. United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) puts on his top hat. Presidential limousine carrying Franklin Roosevelt drives away from St. Thomas’ Parish. Inside the White House, President Franklin Roosevelt at his desk discussing with William H. Woodin, the United States Secretary of the Treasury. President Franklin Roosevelt signs a document. Sign announcing Bank Holidays on March 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1933, upon proclamation by President Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression. Guards stand outside a Northern Trust Company bank. Calendar shows March 1933, the 4th, 5th and 9th of March are encircled. United States Senate in session to pass President Franklin Roosevelt’s new banking measures, the Great Economy Bill. The senate claps for the new Speaker of the House, Henry Thomas Rainey. Calendar shows March 1933, the 4th, 5th, 9th and 12th of March are encircled. President Franklin Roosevelt speaks to the public through radio about the new banking measures. View of console radio and a family with a young child and a pet dog seated in their living room listening to Roosevelt’s speech on radio. View of several different men listening to radio. Middle-class family with five children listens to radio. President Franklin Roosevelt speaking to the people from his desk with a microphone for radio broadcast. A middle-class family listens to the radio with the children sitting on their parents’ laps. A rich family listens to radio together. A family with one teenage son listens to radio in living room. With regard to runs on banks, FDR notes that "hoarding during the past week has become an exceedingly unfashionable pastime...." He notes further that ,"it is up to you to support and make it work. It is your problem, my friends, no less than it is mine. Together we cannot fail.” President Franklin Roosevelt ends speech on the economy.
Robbers force a teller into a sedan before driving away from The New Hampshire Bank building at 22-26 Market Square, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Man reads a newspaper (The Portsmouth Herald) headline reads "Teller Kidnaped in Bank Holdup." FBI agents question locals at gas station near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. View of a farm house. Police man helping in ground search gives FBI agents a prize ticket found. Close up of prize ticket. FBI Agent picks up a piece of cardboard from the ground containing tire print. FBI agents extracts a piece of cloth from barbed wire. FBI forensic investigator examines the imprints of tire marking from cardboard. View of textile mill. FBI forensic investigators analyzing cloth from Massachusetts and North Carolina textile mills. FBI forensic investigator examines piece of fabric sent as evidence. A fiber is cut from piece of fabric and added to vial of chemicals. Line of test tubes containing liquid. Signage of Kimball’s, a tie store in Boston (31 Market St, Boston, MA 02135, USA). Signage of various menswear stores in Boston selling neckties. FBI agents speak with shop clerk of tie store in Boston. Shop clerk shows a necktie to FBI agents. FBI agents show shop clerk mugshots to identify a suspect. FBI agents inside car watching building. FBI agents observe a street. FBI agent answers a telephone inside a car. Black car trails behind a convertible on highway and over a bridge. An FBI agent confronts a suspect paying at a toll booth. Black car chases convertible as FBI agent clings to passenger door as the driver attempts to dislodge FBI agent from his car. POV through windshield exiting towards Portsmouth. Convertible car swerves past a truck. Car crash as convertible hits a truck of hay. FBI agent gets up and arrests the driver. Crashed truck in flames. View of the U.S. Department of Justice (950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20530, United States). J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, speaks from his desk. View of an American school. American flag waving. People sitting on stone stairs outside the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC. View of the Washington National Cathedral bell tower in Washington DC (3101 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, United States). View of a church’s bell towers. View of the United States Capitol in Washington DC. Statue from the United States Capitol stairs. “Eternal Vigilance the price of liberty” inscription below statue. “The End”.
Polish men, women, and children receive new clothing and food from the United States through the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) after World War 2. In Europe, men unload relief aid boxes from UNRRA. UNRRA personnel distributes clothing from America to Polish men. Polish women sort through a box of shoes donated by the United States. A Polish woman dresses her boy with new clothes received from UNRRA. Smiling children after receiving new set of clothes. Polish boys smiling. A female UNRRA personnel distributes food to hungry children. A Polish boy licks off sauce from a can of food. Boy consumes food straight from the carton. A young Polish boy eats a chocolate bar. Polish children walk by ruined buildings destroyed from bombings in World War 2. Children joyfully running down a wrecked city street.
United States Army Air Corps Douglas XC-32 military transport plane in flight after take off from Langley Field before WWII. Major General Frank Andrews and staff including Major George C. Kenny, inspecting a map onboard the XC-32. A radio operator in the XC-32 sends a message via morse code and voice. Ground radio operators in Concord, New Hampshire as command is heard on loudspeaker telling pilots to "simulate an air attack on the New York metropolitan area." View of a loudspeaker. Ground crewmen walking across snow-covered field in Concord New Hampshire with a Douglas YO-31A parked in background. Snow is falling on the airfield as crewmen uncover engine of a Martin B-10 bomber parked in a row with other bombers. A crewman in winter uniform carries a machine gun across snow-covered field toward a parked B-10. A gunner in a B-10 as nose turret turns. Crewmen looking in open bomb bay doors in the snow. Two crewmen turning propeller on a B-10 by hand while it is snowing. Two ground crewmen crank B-10 engine by hand to prime it in cold conditions. Engines on a B-10 are started. The snow is blown off wings of aircraft after the engine starts. Two ground crewmen pulling canvas covering off the wing of a B-10 in heavy snow. A Martin B-10 taxiing on snow-covered field. The B-10 taking off from snow-covered field. A Martin B-10 in flight.
A U.S. Navy petty officer walks by a group of Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft at the NAS Miramar California (Miramar Way, San Diego, CA 92145, United States). Mechanics on one Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter are seen working. The man greets two other men on the runway. Man enters a Squadron building. An officer from maintenance control desk calls the man and gives him work. A commander reviews a woman’s qualification and welcomes her to the VF-124 squadron as a new system maintenance officer. “Glad to be here” the woman said, smiling. Commander introduces the new system maintenance officer, Ensign Murphy, to the petty officer and asks him to provide a tour for the new hire.
Message telling about the kidnapping of Lindbergh Baby. State troopers search in adjacent woods for the baby. Clues and evidence are sought during the search for the infant. Suspects are questioned and autos are inspected. Recording of the baby seen. Ladder which was used for the kidnapping and footprint of kidnapper seen. Parents of the kidnapped baby seen. Message received from the kidnapper.
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