Shows men handling crates containing thousands of little chicks recently hatched from their eggs at a poultry farm in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. Small child plays with several little chicks. A egg hatches in a man's hand.
Shows an old fashioned parade on the eve of Easter in Chicago,Illinois. Participants dressed in old-time clothes and riding in buggies march through the streets of the city. People gather in large numbers and cheer. Women participants pose for the camera.
Thousands of children crowd the White House lawn for the annual Easter- egg rolling competition. Children wave at the camera. Faces of several children.
Shows Senator Joseph T Robinson of Arkansas making a speech. American flag lowered to half mast in Washington DC on the death of Senator Robinson. The Capitol Building can be seen in the background.
Surrounded by press, public and photographers U.S. aviatrix Amelia Earhart Putnam gives an interview at an airfield in United States. She leaves with some officials.
United States Congress passes the Civil Rights Bill. After the House votes on the measure, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law before an audience of Legislators and Civil Rights Leaders at the White House in Washington DC. He calls it 'a turning point in history' and uses one hundred pens to affix his signature. Many civil rights and government leaders seen behind the President, including Everett Dirksen and Hubert Humphrey, Marting Luther King Jr., and J. Edgar Hoover, all of who receive signing pens. President Johnson hands several signing pens to Attorney General Robert Kennedy, for members of the Kennedy family.
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