A city tour bus in Washington DC, United States. The driver of the city tour bus speaking in a microphone from the driver's seat. The bus driven in front of the Ford's Theater. The driver says that former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending a performance of 'Our American Cousin' at the Ford's Theater. The driver says that President Lincoln was taken to the Petersen House across the street and the President passed away at 7.15 AM the next morning. Part of the theater and a sidewalk in view. People walking into the theater.
A jazz performance in Germany. Performance by the Modern Jazz Quartet. Seen are: Milt Jackson (vibraphone); John Lewis (piano); Percy Heath (Bass); and Connie Kay (drums).Views of audience, some tapping in rhythm.
Statues in New Orleans, Louisiana. Boats, dredges, piers, and buildings along Bayou St. John. An equestrian statue of General Andrew Jackson at Jackson Square (Andrew Jackson Equestrian Statue, Jackson Square, New Orleans, LA 70116, United States). Metairie Cemetery (5100 Pontchartrain Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70119, USA). A statue of General Albert Sidney Johnson of the Confederate Army. A streetcar on St. Charles Street and a residential area. An equestrian statue of General Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard.
Pre-invasion activities of United States Army Rangers (2nd Battalion) in Weymouth, England during World War 2. The Rangers eating doughnuts (donuts) and drinking coffee. They march along Weymouth Esplanade to an embarkation area. Royal Hotel Weymouth and St. John's Church seen in the background. They are checked as they move past the pier. The rangers get into British Landing Craft Assault (LCA) at the pier. (The officer seen with a white bar on front of his M1 helmet, is First Lieutenant Robert T. Edlin, who was the first American soldier to board a Landing craft at Weymouth for the Invasion of Europe.) LCAs underway at harbor en route to a transport. An LCA filled with troops.
A labor dispute in New York City. Striking elevator operators cheer their leaders. A leader addresses striking building service employees. Protesters including college girls from Hunter College who come out of a building holding banners. A child enters a tiny elevator (designed for groceries and small goods) and is hoisted up to his apartment manually by an operator. The boy's mother greets him there beside the kitchen icebox and helps him to exit the mini elevator. The mother kisses the child. A man treats the foot of another striking protestor after he developed blisters on the picket line. A man with a shotgun at a building acts as a strike breaker. Demonstrators are taken by police from a building. Police cars on a street. The demonstrators are taken away into the police cars. Some of the demonstrators hold signs like "Dillinger Gone...Bellinger going going (gone)". (The sign is comparing Frederic Coudert Bellinger, a building resident who was organizing tenants against the striking workers, to the infamous bank robber John Dillinger.) Bellinger had also shown up in tin hat and with a shotgun, and another protestor sign said, "Office of Tin Hat Bellinger". Another sign variant was, "Bellinger goes up and down, Picket goes round and round."
A historical documentary about German born civil engineer John Augustus Roebling's early experimentation with wire rope suspension bridges in the United States. A water fall. A flooded river. A suspension bridge. The Golden Gate Bridge. The San Francisco Bay. Animation depicts the Golden Gate Bridge spanning the Golden Gate connecting the city of San Francisco to Marin County. Houses and automobile traffic.
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