Various statues of American patriots. Minute man. Statue of Nathan Hale. Spanish-American Memorial statue, called "The Hiker." The 7th Regiment World War I memorial statue in Central Park, New York City. U.S. Marine Memorial with statue of Marines raising U.S. flag on Iwo Jima. Jefferson Memorial across Tidal Basin. Night view of Abraham Lincoln Statue in the Lincoln Memorial. Night aerial views of monuments and buildings in Washington DC.
Watkins Committee hearings on charges made against Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. People arrive. Arthur Vivian Watkins with other men at desk. Senator McCarthy arrives. Cameraman arrives. Policeman closes the door.
A parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. Men on motorcycles. Crowd lined up on sidewalks. Capitol in the background. Banners read 'Washington DC salutes'. New Commander Seaborn Collins of New Mexico with the U.S. flag in the background. Procession of military jeeps loaded with legionnaires. Legionnaires parade on street. Crowd and children cheer. Floats and men with flags along road.
Salk Polio vaccine shots administered in the United States. Doctors walk toward vaccine samples in racks. Virologist Jonas Edward Salk arrives, who developed an inactivated polio vaccine called Salk vaccine (generic name: Poliovirus Vaccine). Vaccine boxes stacked for dispatch. Parents lined up with children outside inoculation center. Sign reads 'Polio shots here'. Nurses give polio shots to children.
Floods in North East states in the wake of Hurricane Carol. Water flows rapidly and rises in streets. A young girl helped out of water. Muddy and destroyed streets. Wrecked vehicles. Guard stands by rubble on street. Water flows in narrow streets and wrecked houses.
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.
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