Grumman-built LEM (Lunar Excursion Module 1 or LM-1), a space vehicle for carrying astronauts onto the surface of the moon in the United States. Technicians work on the "LEM" as part of NASA Apollo program. The space car is being readied for shipment to NASA at Cape Kennedy. (Shown here is LM-1, which was the first of several excursion modules tested in advance of the actual use of the LEM for the manned landing on the moon with Apollo 11 in 1969.)
A United States Lockheed XH-51A helicopter in the United States. The U.S. Air Force pilot of the helicopter gets in and the helicopter lifts off for an experimental flight. The helicopter sets a speed record of 302 miles per hour during the test flight. Helicopters in flight.
Mass shooting at the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas. Student Charles Whitman opens fire from the University of Texas Main Building tower (110 Inner Campus Drive, Austin, TX 78705, United States). People running about in the campus to escape the fire. Students hide behind cars. Wounded students being carried away. Police cars in the campus. Rifles and guns discovered from Whitman being displayed. The University of Texas tower shooting killed nearly 15 people.
President Lyndon Johnson's daughter gets married in Washington D.C., United States. Invitation card for the wedding of President Johnson's daughter Luci Johnson with Patrick Nugent. Luci and Patrick pose with other members of the family at a pre wedding reception in Georgetown at Ambassador W. Averell Harriman's home. Couple being greeted by guests. President Johnson arrives at the reception. Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (400 Michigan Ave NE, Washington, DC 20017, United States) in Washington D.C. where the wedding will be solemnized.
' Tomorrow housing' about the housing trends in United States in years to come. An intersection of highways in the United States with flyovers and vehicles moving over them. Models of modern and futuristic buildings and roads of the future, seen just after the end of World War 2 during expansion of home ownership in America. Newspaper articles and headlines about the growing need to develop new houses. A woman steps away from a bank teller window after making a deposit. A sign in the bank reads 'Save for your future home'. A United States Navy sailor discusses about future houses with women. Architects look at a model of future houses and discuss. A sailor and his family look at models of various suburban house designs.
Urban renewal after World War II. Improvement in housing facilities in postwar era in the United States. Dilapidated slum and tenement housing dwellings in poverty stricken areas of the United States. Poor housing conditions in slums as children play outside houses. A woman throws dishwater out into back yard. Clothes being hung on clothes lines. A boy entering an outhouse at a home where there is no indoor plumbing. A man pumps water outside his house. A woman with her child in the balcony of an older city house. Slums being razed. Workers using crowbars to break down brick walls. Worker lifts hopper allowing demolition debris from gutted building to slide into his dump truck. Slum dwellers move out of older homes with help of horse-drawn moving wagons, and they move into newly constructed multi-story apartment buildings. Trucks loaded with household belongings outside the apartments. People move into their new and better houses. Belongings being unloaded from the trucks as a group of young boys gather outside and watch.
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