Preparations for the homecoming of U.S. President Harry S. Truman to the Kansas City area for the first time since becoming President of the United States. View from Fairfax Airport in Kansas City, Kansas. Cameras mounted on car as cameramen record the arrival of President Truman. Customized U.S. Army Air Force C-54 Skymaster aircraft nicknamed "Sacred Cow" lands and taxis. (This VC-54C was built for Franklin Roosevelt, but he only flew on it for one trip before his death. The name "Sacred Cow" was a precursor to the name "Air Force One." The trip by Truman in this video clip was the first domestic airplane trip by a U.S. President in history. Prior trips by Franklin Roosevelt had all been international travel.) People gathered in a large number to welcome the President. President Truman and others in his party get off the aircraft. Arrival of President Truman at the Truman home in Independence, Missouri (his summer White House). Roger T. Sermon, Mayor of Independence greets the President's car as it arrives. Secret Service stand by near car and President while Truman greets well-wishers. Gathering in the back yard of the Truman home with members of the Independence Chamber of Commerce. From left to right: Cedric Siegfried, Al Huff, Richard Harbin, President Truman, George Hare, Dixon Kepley, Paul Snyder, Petey Childers. Photographers click pictures.
Air pollution due to open refuse burning in the Kansas City area, United States. Aerial view of the open burning dumps on grasslands. A smoke column rises. View from airplane flying through the smoke. Trash trucks driving in garbage dump near smoking refuse. Aerial view of numerous fires burning in trash dump near river. Salvage yards with uncontrolled open burning. Interiors being burned in junk cars at salvage yard. Aerial views of open burning of refuse in backyards of homes in residential area. Smoke rising from commercial incinerators. View of "tepee" incinerator with smoke rising from it. Incinerator at apartment house with smoke rising from it. Smoke rising from the incinerator at Kansas City, Missouri sewage treatment plant, where dried sewage sludge is burned, and scrubbers are used. View from airplane of large fires and huge smoke clouds from urban renewal project. Car parked on dirt road in area of small trees and shrubs. Large trash fire behind it with billowing dark black smoke. City building in distance.
Woman sits in chair surrounded by children as she speaks. Two boys hold hands as they run into a building. Boy brushes his teeth while standing at a sink. Boy washes his face at a sink. Boy with toothache and bound face with cold cloth grimaces in pain. American Dental Association version of Tommy Tucker's Tooth, produced by Walt Disney at Laugh-O-Grams studio in Kansas City.
Children gathered in a living room listen to a woman speaking. A woman wearing an apron clears plates from a table. CU plate of food. Woman carries a plate out of the dining room. Woman puts a plate of food into an ice box. Animation shows food lodged in tooth, decaying food, and animated gremlins using pick axes to cause a toothache. American Dental Association version of Tommy Tucker's Tooth, produced by Walt Disney at Laugh-O-Grams studio in Kansas City.
Farmers transporting water for cattle in Kansas City, Missouri. Livestock on a farm. Emaciated, thin, and dead and dying cattle suffering from drought and difficult conditions during the Great Depression. A farmer working on the farm. Water is transported from far areas after a drought in the city. A farmer loading containers in a jeep.
Nearly 500 unemployed men line up outside 'Unemployed gateway loan and sporting co.' to receive overcoats in Kansas City ,Missouri. Louis A. Cumonow,a local merchant, distributes the overcoats free of cost to needy during the great depression.
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