Unrest due to riots in Detroit, Michigan. High altitude view of the city of Detroit at night. A car passing on the street. Soldiers standing on the street. The national guards patrol the area. Destroyed houses and buildings in the area. Buildings set on fire. People walking on the street. The interior of a destroyed house. Firemen dousing the fire with the help of hoses. President Lyndon Baines Johnson urges for law and order in Detroit.
Commander Richard E. Byrd, receives the National Geographic Society Hubbard Gold Medal, from President Calvin Coolidge. The event takes place on June 23, 1926, in the auditorium of the National Geographic Headquarters, at 1146 Sixteenth Street, in Washington DC. The audience includes Mrs. Coolidge (on the stage) as well as cabinet officers; members of the diplomatic corps; and National Geographic Society members. Scene shifts to grounds of the White House, on February 27, 1927, as President Calvin Coolidge places the Tiffany Cross Medal of Honor around the neck of Commander Richard E. Byrd. Those seen in the ceremony are, from left to right: Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore D. Robinson; Secretary of the Navy Curtis Wilbur; Commander Richard E. Byrd, USN; President Calvin Coolidge; Warrant Officer Floyd Bennett, USN; and Admiral Edward W. Eberle, USN, Chief of Naval Operations. Closeup of Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett, wearing their medals.
The Stateville Prison in Crest Hill, Illinois. A police vehicle drives up to the Stateville Prison building. The police van is followed by a car. A number of cars parked in front of the building. Stateville written in the garden with the building in the background.
The Stateville Prison in Crest Hill, Illinois. A huge wall with watch towers around the prison. Men enter the vocational school building. A pond with the prison building in the background. Interiors of the prison with a roundhouse in the center and an open area surrounded by prison cells.
The Stateville Prison in Crest Hill, Illinois. Exterior of the building of the Stateville Prison. Prison inmates seated inside a large auditorium. An official inspects the prison. He speaks to a woman and they enter a building.
A movie actor playing the role of a man taking a difficult (for him) written examination. A clock on a wall reads 5:47, as he begins.Two hours later, he has taken off his suit jacket, loosened his tie, rolled up his sleeves, and is still struggling with the examination.
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