First Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of United States, John Edgar Hoover delivers a speech during an award ceremony of the Boys Clubs of America in the United States. He talks about law enforcement, plight of mothers whose children are in prison. He lays emphasis on children and youth engulfed in crime and juvenile delinquency, and the crusade of education to fight the same. The attendees applaud. An official thanks Hoover and begins to read out a telegram.
Demand of Automobile in the United States. Shows a photograph (ca. 1900) of a policeman ordering a horseless carriage off New York City streets. Picture of men on horseless carriage and on bicycles. Views of traffic of 1910's and 1920's cars and other vehicles on busy, traffic filled streets of New York City, as a police officer directs traffic between the lanes of automobiles. Figure shows that out of 26 million of automobiles, 77% is in the U.S. and 23% in rest of the world.
Skydiver's view over the landing gear of an airplane from which he is about to jump. View of the airplane as he falls away. His camera shows the ground from his viewpoint as he maneuvers during free-fall and then as he is pulled up by his opening chute. The striped parachute seen open above him. Aerial view of the parachutist descending and his view of a target marked on the ground. View on the ground as he lands. Aerial view downward of a U.S. Army At-19 aircraft in flight. A paratroop member of the U.S. Army Parachute Team leaving the aircraft in free-fall. He waves back up at the plane and continues maneuvers as he falls. Signalmen on the ground use large panels to give him maneuver instructions. A ground observer with binoculars watches as the jumper's chute opens. Views of him descending and landing.
Image of Justice Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice who advised the President of Howard University to make a fine law school for Black Americans. Artists impression of a Black American lawyer defending a case in court after World War II. Dramatization shows female African American in school bus exclaiming “South Carolina’s run out of time, run out of courts!” Frank Jackson explains to his client how Howard University-trained lawyers completely changed the roles of the Black Americans. Image of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. View of Howard University (2400 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059, United States). An image of Thurgood Marshall with fellow lawyers, some of them Black Americans. Artist impression of Thurgood Marshall defending client in a Jim Crow Court hearing. Dramatization...African-American Lamar High School Student says “And when the courts say “go!”, you go! That’s the law!”
Sign saying “No loitering or electioneering between this point and the poll”. Long line to election poll in the United States during World War II. 1944 American voters wait in line on the street to vote. Woman, wearing a Tartan patterned headscarf and fur coat, waits outside. Cowboys gallop with their horses to the polling station. Man, wearing cowboy hat, gets off from his Ford Model-T car. Worker walks out to the street. A truck with workers on open-cargo area. A woman walks in an empty city street. View of crowd outside Bronx Beacon Laundry at W 169th Street Bronx NYC. People enter a house used as a polling station with a huge tree in front. View of different kinds of buildings used as polling stations for the 1944 United States Presidential Elections. Including the Barbara Fritchie House ( 154 W Patrick St Frederick, MD 21701) “Bridgeport High School” engraved in front of Bridgeport Central High school (44 Lyon Terrace Bridgeport, CT 06604 ) now Bridgeport City Hall. United Stastes voters wait in lines outside polling places. Two women eating biscuits together as they wait in line. A stylish woman, wearing a matching leopard print cocktail hat and scarf, smiles. A man, wearing cowboy hat, waits in line. A group of nuns, belonging to the Sisters of the Holy Cross (CSC) Congregation, waiting to vote. Man, with mustache and fedora, looks slightly up. View of American Red Cross volunteer. Americans forming a long line to the polling station to vote. A woman sits as she waits for her turn to vote. African-American voters waiting in line to vote. Woman, wearing a polka-dotted headscarf, glasses and overalls, waits in line. Men waiting in line in the suburbs. Americans wearing thick coats waiting in line to vote.
Still photos of the NASA Apollo 11 mission. Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. Buzz Aldrin next to the Passive Seismic Experiment Package (PSE) with the lunar module Eagle in the background. Buzz Aldrin stands next to the United States flag on the moon. Spacesuit and lander on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. Front pages of major United States newspapers, such as The Miami Herald and Chicago Daily News, report the historic moon landing. Headlines include, "Ohioan Walks on Moon!" "Man Walks on the Moon" and "Americans on Moon." Teenagers looking at Apollo display at the Smithsonian. Empty mission control years after Apollo.
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