A board reads United States Penitentiary as officers check baggage at Alcatraz island in California,United States. A light house is also seen at the island. Officials enter the registration office to inspect the prison. Officials inspect the prison cells and the mess as photographers take pictures. One of the inspecting official talks to an officer on duty and looks at some of the paintings. Officers line up and they fall out as a senior officer calls out their names from a list. An officer on duty at the prison office where keys of various cells hang on a huge keyboard.
Opening scene shows dimly lit hallway of Federal District Court building in San Francisco. Camera focuses on a courtroom door inscribed as " U.S. District Court, 258, Louis E. Goodman." Officials are seen escorting International Longshoreman's Union (ILWU) President, Harry Bridgers, along a hallway, accompanied by many photographers. Bridger's lawyer, Carol Weiss King and her co-counsel, wearing dark rimmed glasses, are seen standing in the hallway. Closeup of them. He holds up a copy of legal papers. View from further down the hall as Bridgers stops briefly to converse with them. Another closeup of Bridger's lawyers. (Note: Harry Bridgers was prosecuted for his labor organizing and supposed subversive status by the Justice Department in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, with the goal of deportation. This was never achieved. Bridges became a naturalized citizen in 1945. A final effort by the Justice Dept. to deport Bridges ended in 1955 when Judge Louis E. Goodman dismissed the department's civil action to denaturalize him)
Harry Hopkins, Special Assistant to the United States President and Sir Oliver Lyttleton, British Minister of State talk with press reporters, in Washington DC. Press reporters make notes as the two men answer their questions. Both of them step out from a government building and talk to each other.
Garden Party for United States soldiers at White House, Washington DC. Troops stand in files. President Franklin Roosevelt addresses the soldiers. Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt talks to soldiers. Women at the Garden Party. Soldiers talk to a woman. The White House during the Party. (World War II period).
West Wing of the White House, Washington DC, during presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Security guard inside press entrance opens doors for press representatives as they arrive. Table in entrance hall covered with hats from visiting press. Press corps exiting the West Wing.
White House press room in the West Wing, during presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Reporters working at desks in the press room, and making telephone calls in wooden telephone booths there. View of the entrance foyer for press in the West Wing. Reporters waiting in the foyer.
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