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A truck is driven towards barracks under construction at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas.

Barracks under construction at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. Shady trees in a park. A vehicle driven towards the Fort Sam Houston Quadrangle. Vehicles parked on the road leading to the quadrangle. A truck is driven towards a construction site. Barracks under construction. Front view of the building.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051158
A car race on the Houston Speedway in Texas, United States.

Early automobile racing footage at the Houston speedway in Houston, Texas, United States. Cars on the track for the start. Three cars race down the track. Crowd gathered at the stadium. Cars finish off their laps. Crowd waves and applauds.

Date: 1927
Duration: 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065243
U.S. Department of Treasury, Secret Service, films a reenactment of President Kennedy's motorcade route when he was assassinated in 1963

On a sketch of the Texas School Book Depository Building 6th floor, a narrator points out locations pertinent to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. Camera shows stacks of boxes near windows on the 6th floor of the Building, as it pans across the scene. It focuses on a reconstructed scene of boxes near the window with Elm Street below to the right. A Secret Service agent is shown sitting in a position believed the same as the assassin and pointing in the direction that his rifle would have been.Views out the window of traffic moving on streets below. Next, an open convertible car is seen accompanied by two motorcycle police, simulating the movement of the President's motorcade as it turned from Main onto Houston Street. Narrator notes that next turn, from Houston onto Elm Street is quite sharp and driven very slowly. Narrator describes the shots fired as the car retraces specific locations on the route. Photograph of reenactment made for the President's Commission, using the Secret Service followup car. It shows telescopic sight cross hairs as the assassin would see them. Next the car being driven in the current reenactment is viewed through a four power, 18mm Ordnance Optical Incorporated rifle scope, like the one used by the assassin.That last part of the film is shown again in slow motion.

Date: 1964, March 18
Duration: 5 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037383
U.S. President Richard Nixon watches a college football game and celebrates with the triumphant players; Harry Dent describes him.

Special Consultants, Counselors and assistants of U.S. President Richard Nixon speak about him as the President of United States. View of President Nixon on December 6, 1969 as he watches the college football "game of the century" between the University of Texas and the University of Arkansas, and then enjoys the victory among the triumphant Texas players, where he offers them congratulations on the win of Texas Longhorns over the Arkansas Razorbacks. White House assistant Harry S. Dent speaks about his own changes in perceptions after working for President Nixon.

Date: 1972
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057110
American aviator Howard Hughes reaches his hometown, Houston after completing his flight around the world.

After completing his flight around the world, aviator Howard Hughes reaches his hometown Houston, Texas. Exterior views of Hughes Tool Company. A man works at machine inside the building. A man closes the main gate of the company. Hughes' Lockheed 14 super electra aircraft lands in Houston, following his record-setting round-the-world flight. Hughes gets off the plane and is greeted by people and a cowboy with a cattle steer. Hughes shakes hands with people.

Date: 1938, August
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675047768
The future Houston Astrodome under construction, June 1964

Views of what would become the Astrodome in Houston Texas while under construction in 1964. Aerial shots show the current, open-air stadium of the Houston Colts baseball team (soon to be renamed the Astros) and the new domed stadium being built a short distance away. Announcer notes the structure covers nine and a half acres. Views of the translucent roof. Views of construction crews working inside the unfinished stadium, which at this point has no grass or turf on the playing field and none of the seating installed. Man in hardhat speaks into walkie-talkie. Worker lifts beam on crane. Welder works on pipe.

Date: 1964, June 4
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071844