Democratic National Convention of 1968 held at International Amphitheater in Chicago, Illinois United States. Various Democrats vying for president and vice presidential offices deliver their addresses at the Convention. Democratic representatives from various States at the Convention. Members at the Convention talk and discuss with each other. Supporters of Hubert Humphrey rise up from their places, shouting slogans in favor of him. They raise his posters and banners. Supporters of other candidates also start shouting in favor of their respective candidates. (Note: Sound on clip is of a background music band; not of the speakers).
Democratic National Convention of 1968 held at International Amphitheater in Chicago, Illinois United States. Various democrats deliver their address at the convention. Democratic representatives from various states at the convention. Members at the convention from Texas and Colorado put forward their nominations for President. Vice President Hubert Humphrey comes to the podium after being announced as the nominee for President. Crowd cheers and supports him. His wife and mother join at the podium.
Democratic National Convention of 1968 held at International Amphitheater in Chicago, Illinois United States. Candidate for President Election and serving Vice President Hubert Humphrey comes to the podium and delivers his speech after being declared the party's nominee for President. Crowd listens to him keenly and applauds. His running mate for Vice President, Edmund Muskie, joins him at the podium and they raise their hands in a victory posture.
United States President Harry S. Truman and British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill speak at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. The speakers recognize College President Franc L. McCluer and Missouri state Governor Phil M. Donnelly. President Truman praises Churchill. Prime Minister Churchill addresses the assembled intellects and dignitaries at the meeting in his "Sinews of Peace" address. Truman says Churchill "Is a great Englishman. But he's half American." During this famous speech which became known as the "Iron Curtain speech," Churchill thanks the college for giving him an honorary degree. He describes the times as "anxious and baffling." He says the U.S. "stands at the pinnacle of world power" and that it has an "awe-inspiring accountability to the future." With a "sense of dutydom, and anxiety lest you fall below the level of achievement... Opportunities here now, clear and shining for both our countries."
A crowd of men ,women and children stands along the roads waiting for a glimpse of the motorcade carrying former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Harry Truman to Westminster College, where Churchill later delivers his famous "Iron Curtain speech." Workers inside an office. Inside a moving U.S. Army signal corps vehicle A man talks on telephone while a photographer takes photo. Crowd of civilians walks towards a building. View of a Pullman car at the train station, and distant view of the dignitaries departing from the train in their motorcade.
General Motors film entitled: "It's up to US," explains how to maintain private cars during World War 2, when all manufacturers switched to production of war materiel. Bugler, in U.S. Army uniform, blows reveille. Montage of American scenes, including homes and gardens; mountains; forests and lumberjacks felling a tree; an oil well gusher spewing crude oil; open pit mining operations; Niagara falls; flock of sheep grazing; workers picking cotton and it being delivered to a processing plant by horse-drawn wagon; a large timber log being cut into boards in a lumber mill; steel being manufactured for the war effort; a woman housewife or homemaker saving foods in a refrigerator in a vintage 1940s kitchen; a man cutting his lawn; a woman vacuuming her carpet; a woman taking clothes from a washing machine; a farmer plowing with a tractor; automobiles on American road and in parking lot of a defense plant. A driver with worn and dented 1938 Chevrolet Coupe car parked in front of a home is assisted by another who drives up behind him in a 1941 Oldsmobile and gives him a push. Sign at a Chevrolet service garage reading: "Official O.P.A. Tire Inspection Station." A 1942 Chevrolet 2-door fastback car drives into the garage. Mechanic greets driver and begins routine service, including: adding distilled water to battery; draining oil from car up on hydraulic lift. Scene shifts to a mechanic lubricates fittings on a 1937 Chevy on a lift at a gas station. Scene reverts to the earlier garage where mechanic drains cooling system, and refills it. The mechanic removes the carburetor and services it on a bench. He checks distributor rotor and makes compression checks. He cleans and re-gaps spark plugs, and checks tires and brakes. Cars driving on a town street. Mechanic aligning wheels on 1941 Chevrolet. Animated illustrations of tire wear from alignment problems. Servicing air in tire of 1942 2-door Chevy. More animated illustrations of tire problems. Illustrated explanation of rotation for bias tires.
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