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President Richard Nixon issues statement to the press on the death of John Edgar Hoover, Director of FBI; various FBI scenes.

Side entrance to the White House, in Washington, DC. Flag on roof at half mast. Members of the White House press corps gather and President Richard M Nixon addresses them regarding the death of J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI. He speaks about Hoover's greatness and gives a tribute to him. He leaves the podium. Scenes reflecting activities of the FBI during Hoover's time in office are shown, including: lowering of flag to half mast at Department of Justice building; construction of the F.B.I. building; J. Edgar Hoover's house, with doormats carrying initials "JEH."; clips of FBI agents apprehending gangsters; FBI agents firing pistols at a training range, and Hoover at work in the Bureau.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1972, May 2
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028267
World War I U.S. Army aviation cadets undergo aviation training and study the release of bombs from planes

During World War 1, U.S. Army aviation cadets undergo aviation training and learn bombing techniques. Cadets fix bombs under the plane. Cadets sit in the cockpit and fly the biplane. Other cadets watch. Cadets drop bombs from the plane on a field. Smoke arises due to the bombarding. Other cadets board a plane. A machine gun mounted on the plane A cadet targets the machine gun and practices its use.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028343
U.S. Army Air Service air crews train in Curtiss Jenny (JN-4) airplanes during World War I.

Trainees from U.S. Army Air Service or Aviation Section of U.S. Signal Corps undergo training in World War 1. A JN-4 with pilot and rear gunner aboard, takes off on a dirt field. Another JN-4 airplane in flight near the plane. They participate in mock aerial dogfights. Aircrew trainees watch from porch of a building and point skyward as a JN-4 performs aerobatics, including several loops. A captain makes notes and looks at the airplane through binoculars.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1917
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028344
Aerial views of training fields and hangars from U.S. Army military aviator training flight during World War 1

Aerial views of hangars and training fields for U.S. Army Air Service or Aviation Section of U.S. Signal Corps during World War I. DH-4 airplane in flight. Biplane lands at air field. Pilot emerges from plane after training exercise.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028345
How American women contributed to U.S. war efforts during World War II as well as World War I

Film begins showing women looking at a bulletin board advertising free war training classes, during World War 2. Women are seen in a classroom learning to be quality control inspectors in factories. Their instructor uses a large-scale model of a micrometer to illustrate its use. A giant slide rule is mounted on the wall in the background. Women are shown working in an aircraft factory drafting room, preparing drawings for parts. Scene changes to women war production workers being trained as welders. A woman is seen teaching another to operate a drill press. Another woman is being trained to us a metal turning lathe in a machine shop. An employee patch on her right shoulder reads: "Bendix Aviation." Next, a woman is seen guiding a DC-3 commercial airplane into its parking place on an airport. A crew of women works to clean and maintain commercial aircraft in a hangar. Another crew of women climbs aboard a steam locomotive to clean and otherwise maintain it. A woman working as a commercial bus driver, picks up a passenger. Women serving in a messenger service company. A woman running an elevator in an office building. A woman making milk deliveries to a home. Women driving tractors on the large farms of the Midwest. Others run a harvester pulled by a team of 20 mules. A few men express reservations about the ability of women to work outside the home while still caring for families. Complete change of scene shows newsreels from World War 1 with men in uniforms marching. Nurses served overseas at base hospitals. But teams of women also supplemented for missing men in other occupations. One scene shows them shoveling debris into railroad open cars. Another showed women working in a lumber yard and also plowing fields on a farm. So-called Yeomanettes (World War I version of later era Waves) are seen on parade in uniform. Old newsreel shows U.S. Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, reviewing Yeomanettes, as his assistant Secretary, Franklin D. Roosevelt, converses with Vice Admiral William Sims. Film shifts back to World War II showing women in Army uniforms parading, glimpse of others who appear to be pilots. Film ends with montage of views seen earlier in the film.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028455
Historic artifacts from the reign of native Hawaiian Royalty . Several portraits of Hawaiian Royalty.

Artifacts used by former Hawaiian Royalty. A pair of thrones. A royal cloak and headgear. Royal crowns. Portraits of Hawaiian King David Kalekaua (or Kalakaua) and Queen Kapiolani. Painting of conflict (Perhaps an artist's interpretation of armed Americans coming ashore from the USS Boston,in 1893? ) Painting of a modern ocean liner underway at sea.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046031
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