A College Football game between two unbeaten teams, the University of Southern California Trojans and the University of Washington Huskies, at Seattle in Washington. Thousands of spectators attend. USC Trojans beat the Washington Huskies.
Scenes from a basketball match between Michigan and University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) held by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at Portland, Oregon. The UCLA wins the collegiate title by the last minute goal from the substitute Kenny Washington who went for injured Keith Erickson.
Story Camp Hanford during the Manhattan Project in World War II. Scenes of Dr. Glenn Seaborg and colleagues: Arthur Wall, Edward McMillan, and Emilio Segre, who generated and isolated Plutonium at University of California in 1941 A sign on a container reads 'First Pure 94 (239) isolated from chain reaction source'. A model of the atomic pile under the stadium at the University of Chicago, where Enrico Fermi, an Italian physicist, demonstrated controlled nuclear fission, on December 2, 1942. A map shows various sites chosen for Manhattan Engineer's District. Views of desert in Southeast Washington State. The Columbia River, for cooling. Electrical towers for power supply. An aerial view of project buildings in Hanford. Construction workers selected for the project in Hanford. Construction sites. Trailer houses for the workers. An aerial view of the plant ready for operation. Inserted view of Camp Hanford abandoned, in later years.
The first dawn-to-dusk flight by U.S. Army Air Service pilot Lieutenant Russell L. Maughan from New York to California. He stands beside his aircraft, at Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, New York. An army officer wishes him good luck on his trip. Lt. Maughan in the cockpit.and taking off in his P-1 Hawk airplane.. The plane in flight over Manhattan, New York City.
A college football game between Notre Dame and USC Trojans in South Bend, Indiana. A large number of spectators. Players in various plays during the game. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish team rolls on and over the University of Southern California Trojans using their passing game and ground attack, and defeats them by 38-0.
U.S. President Richard M. Nixon after being elected President of the United States. Assistant John D. Erlichman sitting in his office talks about Nixon. Nixon's childhood in a poor farmers' family in California. Childhood photographs of Richard Nixon. His mother and father with young Richard. Richard Nixon in group photos in a sports field and with his classmates of the law school. From a pro-Nixon "documentary" called "Portrait of a President" about President Richard Nixon. Released during his 1972 reelection campaign.
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