1955 air disasters in the United States. Wreckage of United Air Lines Flight 629, a Douglas DC-6B aircraft (N37559, Mainliner Denver) that was blown up over Longmont, Colorado on November 1, 1955, by a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage. The crash site of United Air Lines Flight, a Douglas DC-4 propline (N30062), in Medicine Bow Peak, near Laramie, Wyoming. Dead bodies carried out from wrecked plane. Crowd watches.
President Dwight Eisenhower during his illness. The President on wheelchair followed by few nurses in Denver. Crowds lines up street as he returns to his home in Gettysburg from Denver. Crowd waves flags lined up on sidewalks to welcome Eisenhower. Eisenhower walks into a building accompanied by other officials. Eisenhower seated with other officials around table.
Atomic submarine Nautilus launched in Electric Boat Division, Groton, Connecticut. Sign reads 'USS Nautilus SSN 571 Keel Laid June 14, 1952'. Crowd cheers. Mrs Dwight S Eisenhower arrives for christening ceremony. Commander Eugene P Wilkinson as Commander of ship. Mrs Dwight Eisenhower christens the Nautilus. Submarine slides into waters from its building area.
Jimmy Stewart in Miami. Plane taxis after landing in Miami International Airport. Sign reads 'Welcome to Miami'. Film star Jimmy Stewart and his wife Gloria disembark the plane and greeted by civil and Air Force reserve officials. Jimmy arrives for the world premiere of his latest picture, 'The Glenn Miller Story,' held simultaneous in three theaters. View outside Miracle, Miami, and Carib theaters showing lighted marquee signs. Large crowd cheers outside theater. Jimmy Stewart and his wife exit from car. Jimmy Stewart reaches stand and waves to crowd.
Hollywood actress Myrna Loy, a supporter of the National Infantile Paralysis Foundation, speaks about her visit to an orthopedic hospital and further talks about current campaign against infantile paralysis in children. Children in full body casts. Young polio victims in hospital. A girl with abnormal arms lies in bed. Affected child do exercise in pool. Several hospitalized children. Myrna Loy makes an appeal for donations.
Socialist Eugene V Debs waves his hat in front of U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. He walks towards people waiting. Telegram from Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty informing Warden of the U.S. Penitentiary that the President (Harding) had commuted the sentence of Eugene V. Debs . Debs poses with two women and a man while exiting the White House in Washington DC soon after his release. He walks off with a group of friends.
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