Various steps of truck manufacturing, at a factory. Ignition system of a truck consists of a magneto and four wires. A heavy generator used for lighting and starting the engine. Workers at factory test engine by power required to start it. View of "GMC" lettering for General Motors Company on the engine block. Trucks driving on uneven and water clogged roads.
A football match between Wolverines of Michigan and Hawkeyers of Iowa at Iowa City. The Wolverines of Michigan defeated the unbeaten Hawleyers of Iowa by 17-14.
The Selective Service System (SSS) holds a draft lottery in 1969. The Lottery selection system chooses soldiers for induction into the Vietnam War. Members of the Selective Service Youth Advisory Committee participate in the draft, choosing birth dates from a glass bowl. The dates are read aloud and posted on the draft board. One young man protests the Vietnam War by flashing a Peace sign with his fingers every time he chooses a draft number.
Lottery selection held in full view of public for selecting potential soldiers for Vietnam. Youth who are part of an advisory committee for the Selective Service draw birth dates. The birth dates are read allowed and then matched with a number on the draft lottery board. (Vietnam War period).
Larry McKibben, Iowa representative for the Selective Service Youth Advisory Committee, interrupts the December 1969 draft lottery to read a statement. He claims his statement is written by 14 youth members protesting the removal of the Michigan and Alaska youth delegates after their refusal to draw birth dates for the lottery. The draft lottery continues after the statement is read.
An abandoned building and coal mine shaft near Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. Old shaft building. Coal conveyors seen above and on ground around the wooden structure.
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