An aircraft crashes in Memphis, Tennessee. The aircraft takes off from a field and in flight. It comes in for a landing. It crashes while trick landing in a field. People rush towards the aircraft and gather around it. The aircraft after being stripped by souvenir hunters.
Daredevil driver takes turn at high speed and flips his car. Paramedics rush at the crash. Daredevil biker jumps out of flaming inferno. View of heavily crowed Memphis Stadium. Demolition head on collision between stunt cars at high speeds. Injured driver taken away by paramedics in ambulance. Wrecked cars pulled out of stadium by towing trucks.November 1934.
Two police motorcycles escort a black truck carrying Martin Insull, following his deportation from Canada. The truck displays "Atlas Bro Co" across its top. (Martin is brother of the famous fugitive, Samuel Insull who fled the country following the collapse of his various utility company holding companies, most notably Middle Western Utilities.) Martin Insull is being brought to the Cook County Courthouse in Chicago, to answer charges about his involvement in the matter. Scene shifts to Cook County Courthouse where Martin Insull is escorted by various officials. A group of men and women stand in the area. Some exhibit signs of distress. View from above of the Cook County jail. Smoke from stacks obscuring it somewhat. Change of scene shows heavily armed FBI agents escorting handcuffed and chained gangster George Francis Barnes aka “Machine Gun Kelly" at an American Airlines facility in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1933. They escort him past a parked airplane. Closeup of the "Lima News" of Lima, Ohio, with headline reflecting a national federal campaign against gangsters and criminals in the U.S. View of crowded courtroom. View of Alcatraz prison on its rock island in San Francisco Bay, California. Interior view of cell blocks in Alcatraz. Federal officials escorting arrested men in handcuffs who hide their faces as they approach the camera.
Mule market in Memphis, Tennessee. Men sell mules on street. View from Overton Park in Memphis, with a view of the Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, opened in 1916, (now Memphis Brooks Museum of Art) among the trees, view of a lake with ducks in it, and various trees.
The Grand (paddle wheel driven river boat) in the Mississippi River loaded with cargo of cotton at Memphis, Tennessee. African American workers unload cotton shipment and place them in order at dock side.
Cotton Carnival in Memphis. A series of parties staged at Carnival. Current year's selected King, Queen and Royal Court of carnival. Presentations and parade by all cotton producing states. Decorated floats go by in a night time parade as crowd cheers. Floats have elaborate artwork and kings and queens. Flags of cotton producing states seen on many floats, including Georgia 1956 flag incorporating the Confederate battle flag on the Georgia float.
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