Multiple scenes of groups of people in the United States gathered around radios, listening. Timing is conclusion of labor strike by Coal Miners in the United States. On December 7, 1946, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis called an end to a walkout of 400,000 coal miners that he had called on November 20, 1946. First scene shows a family seated in a living room listening to the news on a large console radio. The men, young and old, share cigarettes and pipes and smoke while listening intently. Next scene is a bar or tavern and shows a group of men, presumably coal miners, gathered around a portable radio on the bar to listen to the news. Two large American flags hang in the bar. Several men are drinking beer. Next scene shows four men playing cards at a table while they listen to a portable radio on the table. Wall calendar page for December 1946 is on the wall behind them. Next scene shows three men gathered around a wood burning pot belly stove that is heating a room, as they listen to a portable radio. Final scene shows a man and a woman huddled close to a living room console radio as they listen.
Young men recruits leaving a city to join the United States Army, for service in World War I. A crowd of mostly women behind ropes at a train station, saying goodbye to young men as they prepare to join military service in the American Expeditionary Force heading to France in World War 1. Women crying and in tears as they say goodbye to soldiers. Soldiers receiving new uniforms and putting them on. Soldiers pulling on new boots and getting measured for pants and shirts. Newly recruited soldiers doing "setting-up exercise" drills and calisthenics at a training camp.
Activities at the Operation New Life / New Arrival ceremony for Vietnamese refugees, held at Harrisburg International Airport (1 Terminal Dr, Middletown, PA 17057, United States) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Microphones and tape equipment. Crowd of spectators wave American flags. Military policemen talk with Pennsylvania State policemen at the airport. The dignitaries and the officials walk towards the speakers stand. Civilian photographers take pictures. People wearing 1970s clothing fashions. A woman wearing sunglasses looks away.
Scene from Operation New Life and Operation New Arrival operations for Vietnamese refugees at Harrisburg International Airport (1 Terminal Dr, Middletown, PA 17057, United States) in Pennsylvania, United States. The Salvation Army truck serving coffee. A Pennsylvania State Police helicopter. The helicopter takes off. A sign on the truck reads: 'The Salvation Army'. Men serving coffee to the military personnel.
Check-in registration activities at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania during Operation New Life and Operation New Arrival for Vietnamese refugees, in Pennsylvania, United States. The interiors of a building at the fort. A Vietnamese refugee family looks over forms and forms are being processed by the military personnel. Meal identification cards on the desk. Soldiers making copies of the forms on the photocopy machine.
Receiving camp for Vietnamese refugees set up during Operation New Life, Operation New Arrival in the United States. Vietnamese refugees having just arrived at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. Men and women serving food to the Vietnamese refugees. The refugees seated at a table, having their food. Children eating food.
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