After a radio play in New York terrifies the nation. Thousands of radio listeners throughout the U.S. are frightened into mass hysteria by a dramatization of H. G. Wells' old thriller 'The War of the Worlds' as staged by Orson Welles, a young actor-manager. Orson Welles speaks at a press conference about the event. Media persons take notes during the press conference.
Launching of first liquid fuel rocket on a Staten Island New York beach in 1933. U.S. rocket experimenters including George Edward Pendray launch the first liquid fuel missile. They prepare for launching of the rocket and fill fuel of rocket which is powered with gasoline and liquid oxygen. Missile being launched and its fuel tank explodes due to over heating. Rocket crashes down on beach. Experimenters stand with pieces of the broken rocket. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
Models display machine washable dresses in Manhattan, New York. The models walk on a ramp displaying dresses including mini skirts, culottes, short pants suits, tunic tops, striped skirts, baby dresses and mini disco dresses. All of them are of cotton and washable synthetics. Photographers take photos. Audience sitting at a dining table.
Arriving immigrants being processed at Ellis Island, New York City on 9 May, 1906. Men, women, and children immigrants holding their luggage stream out of the processing building and, guided by immigration officials, enter ferries to take them to the Battery on Manhattan Island.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh takes off on solo transatlantic flight from Roosevelt Field in New York. Charles Lindbergh poses with his mother in front of his plane 'Spirit of Saint Louis'. Charles Lindbergh then dons heavier flying suit and boards the plane. The "Spirit of St. Louis" hits a few bumps on takeoff roll and then gradually completes a shallow takeoff.
The Rodman Wanamaker Expedition of Citizenship to the Native American Indians in the United States. American flag raising ceremony at Fort Wadsworth, New York shows the leader of the expedition Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon dedicating the flag to American North American Indians and raising it at the site of the future National American Indian Memorial (which was never built), after the same flag had toured the U.S. to different tribes during the Rodman Wanamaker Expedition. The flag is raised by a member of Winnebago Native American Indian Reservation Henry Roe Cloud. Ex-Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott delivers a speech. at Fort Wadworth. Anchored ships. The President of the Board of Indian Commissioners George Vaux Jr. delivers a speech. Henry Roe Cloud speaks.
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