Launching and christening of USS Santa Fe (CL-60) Cleveland Class light crusier from the Camden, New Jersey yards of New York Shipbuilding, during World War 2. Men, women and U.S. Navy officers and sailors at the harbor during the ceremony, including Santa Fe Mayor Manuel Lujan, and 14 year old Caroline Trevelyan Chavez who receives coaching on how to christen the ship and then smashes a bottle of Santa Fe River water on the bow as the crowd claps and the ship slides down the ways. Ambient sound heard briefly at the christening and afterwards with crowd cheering at different times in the clip. The cruiser slides down the ways enters into the Delaware River. Dignitaries raise their hats to bid goodbye to the ship. The ship turning about in the Delaware River.
Steel mill operating in Pennsylvania, United States. Smoke issues from mill stacks. River and houses behind the factory.
Police urges the entire population to aid in search for kidnapped 20 month child of aviator Charles Lindbergh, in Trenton New Jersey. Policemen at a meeting with police chief Walker. Policemen exit Trenton police headquarters carrying Department of Justice 'Wanted' posters that read, 'WANTED Information as to the whereabouts of Chas. A. Lindbergh, Jr.' Crowds of people gather to read posters displayed by police. A policeman picks up a little girl so she can read the poster seeking information about the disappearance of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.
Jewish people in New York City lower east side are seen in crowded outdoor market areas, busy shopping in shopping for foods for the Jewish passover festival commemorating the Exodus from Egypt. The lower east side Ghetto busy with Jews buying matzos, and people unable to afford matzos (during Great Depression) are given matzos at no charge .Merchandise and push carts lined along streets. Shops and shopkeepers bargain with customers buying foods. Men wearing hats and beards, and women are in the lines. Hebrew writing on store front windows. Line of Jewish people outside a building of a Jewish charitable agency supplying matzos. Men and women seen after receiving matzo bread.
Exterior view of St Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church at 122-38 West 76th Street in New York City, (it is the modern day address 120 West 76th Street, New York City; the location of the West Side Institutional Synagogue). St. Andrews church turns into a Jewish Synagogue for a day in New York City. The Star of David symbol seen at entrance of church. Interior views of Jewish religious service in progress. Rabbi blows shofar and people are heard singing prayers. Rabbi I. Warsaw introduces Pastor Edward J. Aplin. Rabbi Warsaw thanks Pastor Aplin for offering the church space to the Jewish congregation of the Little Synagogue and Temple of Service, and permitting them to decorate the space with the symbols of a traditional synagogue and use the facility for Yom Kippur.
Kidnapping case of twenty months old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh, in Trenton New Jersey. Police Commissioner John F. O'Ryan announces in press the arrest of a suspect Berhard Richard Hauptmann, from Bronx, New York in the case. He also displays the ransom money recovered from him. Mayor LaGuardia is seated beside O'Ryan. Subordinates and others working on the case seen behind and beside O'Ryan. Media is present and press men question him. A quick view of Hauptmann. Brief view of intermediary Dr John F. Condon. The arrested suspect's portrait. Crowd in front of the Hauptmann house in Bronx New York at 1279 East 222nd Street, New York, home of Richard Hauptmann. Hauptmann in handcuffs being led away by police.
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