Convicts captured after freeing a kidnapped family in the United States. Mr and Mrs Hale Champion and their 19 months old daughter held captive by two gunmen. The kidnapped family disembarks from a United States aircraft. Photographers take pictures. Newspaper headline reads 'Kidnapper's Happy Ending'. Convict held by the authority.
Disturbances and conflicting views about war versus isolationist approach in the United States prior to World War II. Officials speak about lend lease and officials with anti-war involvement stance advocate protectionism. Speakers include Senator Gerald P. Nye. and Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Wendell Willkie speak advocating a unified approach. Senator Joshua B. Lee of Oklahoma speaks. United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the Congress and delivers his war message. Pacifist student protestors on street in front of the White House with anti-war banners that read 'Peace Mobilization'. Counter demonstrators also picket, including a man with a sign, "We Americans Protest Communists Picketing the White House." Vehicles drive past in front of the White House. A group of women anti-war protestors are seen seated at an event, and together they pull down black veils in front of their faces. German Bund officials (German-American Bund) are seen meeting at an outdoor rally, and then again at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1939. A band plays and the leader Fritz Julius Kuhn gives a brief speech during which a protestor leaps the stage and is beaten down by Bund members. Workers on streets protesting for various labor rights. They march and picket on a street. Demonstrators for other causes in American society in the early 1940s, including a woman demonstrator who carries a sign advocating civil rights or equal rights that says "Did Lincoln Free the Slaves?" Clip ends with scenes of violence at various labor strikes, including scabs (strike-breakers) being attacked, beaten, and hit by strikers, and authorities directing water hoses on strikers to repel them away from a building gate.
A United States Army training film about defense against chemical warfare. Organizations in a division training area during World War I perform drills while wearing gas masks. United States troops wearing gas masks fire artillery. Cavalry soldiers and horses with gas masks during mounted action. A division commander addresses assembled officers during a training inspection.
A United States Army chemical warfare service training exercise underway. A United States soldier fires a McBride gas gun. Smoke candles burn in a field with smoke surrounding the area.
A United States Army training film about chemical warfare service training. United States soldiers throw gas hand grenades (containing non-poisonous smoke) during a training exercise. Smoke rises in the grenade target area.
A United States Army training film about the chemical warfare service. White phosphorous hand grenades and rifle grenades used by soldiers during a training operation. United States soldiers throw white phosphorous hand grenades. Smoke rises in the surrounding area with explosions.
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