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First Atomic submarine USS Nautilus underway and at sea in 1956; also scenes of SSM-N-8 Regulus cruise missile

United states Navy submarine SSN-571, the USS Nautilus, introduced in 1956. The nuclear powered USS Nautilus submarine underway at sea in United States. Men at controls as the first nuclear submarine is tested. SSN-571 in New York Harbor with Manhattan Island skyline of New York City in background. Next scene shows the guided cruise missile SSM-N-8 Regulus, also introduced in 1956, being fired from a ship, and an aerial view is seen of the Regulus guided missile in flight.

Date: 1956, December 24
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675049133
Hungarian refugees escaping from 1956 Hungarian Revolution arrive in Camp Kilmer; President Eisenhower during his second inaugural speech.

Hungarian refugees from the October 1956 Hungarian Revolution (also called Hungarian Uprising) disembark from an American Airlines plane after landing safely in the United States. Entrance to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, where the Hungarian refugees were resettled. Hungarian refugees get off a bus. A Hungarian man holds his infant daughter with a pacifier. The camera moves to another Hungarian man, wearing a black hat. A Hungarian girl smiles, some of her front teeth missing. United States Army Sergeant Stuart Queen speaks to the camera. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks during his Second Inaugural Address at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington DC. View of a radio tower. Radio tower view from the inside. View of the top of the Chrysler Building in New York City. Cars pass by modern apartment blocks with antennas on top of building. Television antenna on house roof. Man adjusts television as his wife watches from their couch in living room. A man and his wife, holding their baby, watches the inauguration speech of United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower on television from their family living room. Two women and a child watch United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s speech on television. Family of a woman and her children listen to Eisenhower’s speech from a radio in their living room. Bombing on a street in Budapest during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Men firing in Budapest. A tank fires in a park. Apartments getting devastated from firing. Hungarian man aims his gun and fires at a car. Men fire on a Budapest street. Doctor and paramedics carry an injured on a stretcher behind a tank. “Budapest is no longer merely the name of a city, henceforth it is a new and shining symbol of man’s yearning to be free”, said United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower from his second inaugural speech.

Date: 1956, October
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079029
President Eisenhower and family attend the 1956 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, California

Convention-goers at the 1956 Republican National Convention cheer for presidential candidate, incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower, wife First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, son John Eisenhower and John's wife Barbara Thompson. President Eisenhower waving at convention-goers in Cow Palace (2600 Geneva Ave, Daly City, CA 94014) in Daly City near San Francisco, California. Mamie Eisenhower laughs and smiles at John and Barbara. Vice President Richard M. Nixon and wife Pat Nixon leaves the podium. A Republican candidate delivers his support to President Eisenhower. First Lady Mamie Eisenhower stands beside official. He announces that President Eisenhower remains as “Honorary Chairman” of the Republican Party Convention of 1956.

Date: 1956, August 22
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080493
Growth of housing, military facilities, and military industries in Talladega, Alabama for World War 2

Growth of war industries in Talladega Alabama during World War II. Newspapers of Talladega, Alabama. A large crowd on barge, coming to land. Scene of an office. Workers at a construction site in Alabama. A man operates a crane. A big cylindrical elevator at hook of the crane lowers down. A truck at house. Dog outside house. A man operates a full track tractor at construction site. African American workers lay railway tracks for a railroad train service. Many scenes of the African American work crew working on the railroad tracks, and taking a break to drink water from a ladle. (Background sound track during these work scenes is a man singing the African American spiritual song "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho." A side rail pulls down as attach to hook of a crane. Tanks on rail coaches. Food loads arriving by railroad train cars to feed the growing population of war workers. Potatoes in sacks. A cook prepares food. People in war time production industry eat food at dining table in groups in a mess hall or dining hall. People do various construction jobs building infrastructure for war workers. A man operates a crane. A cylindrical box lowers down. Children play outside a mobile home trailer. A child with a cat. An open air theater. A bunk house with beds for rent. People at a cafeteria. A woman with children. Cars outside a cafeteria. A board reads 'Field Office'. Large crowd.

Date: 1942
Duration: 9 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035534
People gather at the State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, at end of the third Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march.

The end of the third Selma-to-Montgomery march during the American Civil Rights Movement. Marchers relaxing in front of the Alabama State Capitol (600 Dexter Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36104) in Montgomery, Alabama. The gathering includes African American and white American men, women, and children. People hold a large American flag. A white man smokes a pipe.

Date: 1965, March 25
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044204
Johnson addresses Congress on voting rights; Martin Luther King Jr and activists march for civil rights in Selma, Alabama.

United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson seeks end to civil strife in the United States. Exterior view of the dome of the U.S. Capitol Building illuminated at night. Inside view as the President addresses Joint Session of Congress to push a voting rights bill (Voting Rights Act) to end discrimination in voting. Dignitaries and members of the Congress are seated. Next scenes are all from civil rights marches in the U.S. during March, following the March 11 beating death of minister James Reeb. Protestors march on streets all over the country in solidarity with the Selma, Alabama marchers. They carry banners. A banner reads 'We March With Selma'. Another banner says "We Shall Overcome". The people march on streets and carry banners in a Harlem, New York demonstration. The demonstrators gather in large number to pay tribute to Unitarian minister James J. Reeb. Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church (410 Martin Luther King St, Selma, AL 36703, United States) in Selma, Alabama which was a headquarters for the drive for the right to vote. A sign reads 'Brown Chapel'. The people gathered during the campaign. Leader of African American civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with other officials. View of protestors in the second Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery on March 9, 1965. Martin Luther King Jr marches with the people for Civil Rights. Men take pictures. Martin Luther King with white ministers, African American and white citizens, and civil right workers marching on the street. The police stand blocking the road at the end of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The marchers stand. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to a policeman. The marchers kneel on the street and pray. Men take pictures. Martin Luther King Jr with other officials speaks to the marchers. After praying the marchers turn around and go back to Selma. They cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

Date: 1965, March 15
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069346