Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) company's coast-to-coast passengers proceed on their flight legs from Saint Louis, Missouri to Waynoka, Oklahoma. TAT employee closes door on Ford 5-AT-B tri-motor passenger airplane, at St. Louis airport. Ground crewman plugs in compressed air hose to assist start of engine number three. TAT logo seen on side of the airplane. Next, the airplane taxis and takes off on plowed runway of snow-covered field. Animated map shows airplane heading to Kansas City, Missouri. View of cockpit as co-pilot shows weather report to pilot. Shift to a TAT weather station where meteorologists launch a weather balloon to check winds aloft. Closeup of the pilot's weather report being prepared. TAT officer serving lunch food to passengers in the aircraft. View from airplane of Kansas City, and then aerial view as it descends to Wichita, Kansas. Pilots in cockpit. Copilot radios Wichita. View of TAT radio operator responding and saying they should lookout for Lindbergh who is flying the route today. Next, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh is seen flying past the Ford Tri-motor in his Curtiss Falcon biplane. Passengers look out to see him. View from the passenger plane descending over the city of Wichita, Kansas. Animated map shows next stop as Waynoka, Oklahoma. View from the air of numerous oil derricks in Oklahoma. Passengers leaving the airplane and boarding a trailer-bus at Waynoka. Closeup of flowers and sign on restaurant table, reading, "TAT, Reserved for TAT travelers." Passengers dining.
A college football match in Oklahoma, United States. Highlights of the game between the Oklahoma Sooners and the Missouri Tigers. The Missouri Tigers win the game 41-19.
Medical mission nurses visit Appalachian mountain families and provide health care services for infant children. Man with his wife and children on porch of house in Appalachian Mountains near Campbell County, Tennessee. Nurses move a small bed onto the porch. View of a nurse weighing a toddler on a weighing scale. The baby cries. Another toddler seated on a woman's lap. Another woman carries infant baby in one hand and an umbrella in the other. She places the baby on an examining table and a nurse begins examination.
Blind Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota fires a revolver at a target in Berwyn Heights, Maryland. He is guided by the sound of a wand tapped on the bulls-eye by his youngest son Richard. (Note: This newsreel was released December 23, 1935. Senator Schall was killed by a hit and run driver on December 19, 1935 while he was walking across the Baltimore-Washington Parkway within days of this footage being shot, earlier in December 1935 ).
Bruno R Hauptmann gets electric chair sentence for kidnap and murder of Lindbergh's child, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., in Flemington, New Jersey. Aerial and ground views of Lindbergh's residence and scenes of Anne Morrow Lindberh with Charles Jr. in a baby pram taking a stroll in garden before the kidnapping. Wooden ladder near the window and empty nursery. Scenes of the ransom note and the manhunt. Citizens view "Wanted" signs on street corners. Views of the ransom money. Officials arrest Hauptmann and show hideout shed and ransom money found. Crowds gathered outside courthouse. Lindbergh's enter. Kidnapper, lawyers, judges and other people in courthouse. Justice Thomas Trenchard seated in tribunal hears the lawyers statements. Jury foreman reads aloud the decision in the Hunterdon County Courthouse. Hauptmann led out of courthouse by many guards, and through large crowd gathered outside courthouse at night. Aerial and inside views of prison, cell, and empty electric chair.
Los Angeles County Relief Administration (LACRA) work with Sheriff's probation officers in enlisting youth for work during the Great Depression in the United States. A juvenile offender undergoes interview with probation officers. Young men work at the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Camp near San Bernardino, California, digging into rock and gravel and dirt piles as they build new roads. Boy workers seated at a table eat food. They are shown seated receiving school lectures, and playing baseball and boxing. The American flag is lowered outside the camp barracks (operating similar to a CCC or Civilian Conservation Corps camp).
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