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Post World War I political issues in the U.S.A. including Red Scare, anarchists, labor strife, and KKK

A huge crowd on streets of New York City cheering and celebrating victory over Germany in World War I after signing of the Armistice. A cemetery of U.S. soldiers died in World War I. Cross burning and views of hooded Klan members at a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) ceremony, with several uniformed U.S. Army soldiers in foreground, dimly lit (possibly at Stone Mountain Georgia but location not confirmed). Palmer Raid victims: Suspected leftists, left wing, and anarchists seen being led away in a group by police after their homes were raided and searched without search warrants, and some were deported, under program led by U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, during 1919 and 1920. (Second group shown is likely in Paterson, New Jersey; note sign for J.T. Doremus Hardware on building in background.) Palmer Raid arrestees seen behind barbed wire fences where they were held without charges for three months and denied legal representation. Some arrestees being escorted by U.S. soldiers in uniform. Vigilante businessmen and town leaders enforcing 12 hour work days at Steel factories in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and Gary Indiana. Vigilantes (deputized and armed by local authorities seen with rifles and shotguns marching down streets enforcing business demands and countering steel workers on strike. They approach a striking worker on the road side and seize a stick he is holding. Together with police they begin to beat back the protesting crowd of men. Someone fires a gun in the crowd and shooting starts. An injured or dead steel worker on the ground is lifted up by a man and carried away.

Date: 1920
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036808
Crowds gather to celebrate New Year's eve, 1936, in Times Square, New York City. Vehicles move slowly in single lane.

Large crowd gathers on New Year's Eve, to celebrate in Times Square, New York City. Neon signs on buildings. Vehicle movement is very slow and limited to a single line. Neon signs advertise many products such as "Planters Peanuts" and "Coca-Cola. A large image of James Cagney appears on top ot the Criterion movie theater marquee. An F.W. Woolworth store is seen adjacent to the theater.

Date: 1936, December 31
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675045112
WPA laborers work at various development programs in New York City, United States.

Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects in New York City during the Great Depression. Aerial view of New York City as a plane flies by and clouds part to show Manhattan island below. Buildings and skyscrapers of New York City as seen from river and harbor views, with some ships and tugboats seen. Trucks on roads of Governor's Island at tip of Manhattan. An older home seen under renovation and reconstruction. View of the Brooklyn Navy Yard with WPA workers busy building and improving new roads and shops and warehouses near the docks. A bulkhead construction project is shown at Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, to reclaim land from the waters of the Bay. The work includes construction of a new Boulevard and sanitary and sewer system improvements. View of the front entrance of the Beaux Arts style Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House on Bowling Green at the tip of Manhattan. Pedestrians and WPA workers are seen in front of the building. WPA laborers on an unidentified Manhattan street (with elevated railway running in background) are busy removing old street car rail lines from the streets, in sections, and loading them into truck beds to haul away. Large public swimming pool and bath house construction projects are shown, influenced by city planner and avid swimmer Robert Moses (scene possibly shows McCarren Park pool - note archway seen under construction). WPA workers are seen building the new East River Drive, including highways, walks, and flanking parks. Construction workers seen building the roadway, with the Williamsburg Bridge in the background. A model of the project is shown with the new drive from Grand Street to 14th Street. Camera pans down from the Empire State Building to show the roof of the New York Public Library teeming with WPA workers as they remove the old corroded copper roof and replace it with a new metal roof. View of busy Manhattan streets below the workers, including a street car passing by.

Date: 1936
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062811
Scenes in life of President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the national election of 1936

Opening scene shows President Franklin D. Roosevelt driving his personal Ford Phaeton hand-controlled car along a tree-lined drive at his family residence in Hyde Park, New York. Riding with him are his daughter, Anna Roosevelt Dall, and her children, Anna Eleanor Dall ("Sistie") and Curtis Roosevelt Dall ("Buzzie"). Next, Roosevelt is seen in car, parked in a cornfield, near the Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia, while his grandchlldren, “Sistie” and “Buzzie” visit with farm hands who are clearing old plants from the field. Very good close-up of President Roosevelt sitting in the driver’s seat of his car. Scene changes to the lawn at "Springwood," the Roosevelt family estate in Hyde Park, New York, where President and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt are sitting in wicker lawn chairs. She is knitting, and FDR is paying attention to the grandchildren, Anna and Curtis, who are riding horses, and granddaughter, Sara, on a pony. He talks with Sara. Close-up of Sara. Change of scene shows Republican Presidential Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas, and his family in their home. Voters are seen lined up along the sidewalk to cast their ballots in the election. View inside the polling place of voters entering and leaving individual voting booths. Another view shows voters in a long line snaking back and forth across a sidewalk. A Jewish Rabbi is seen registering and being directed to a voting booth at one polling place. On election night, President Roosevelt stands outside his Hyde Park home, assisted by his son Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., as he acknowledges his reelection victory. View of Times Square in New York City, crowded with people celebrating FDR’s reelection. President Roosevelt drives in an open on his return to Washington to resume his duties in the White House. He holds a large bouquet of flowers aloft and waves it to the crowds of spectators who fill the sidewalks. Later, he waves his hat. View of the Presidential motorcade lining Pennsylvania Avenue, with the Capitol in the background. The crowds spill partway into the streets, in places where police are not keeping cordoned off. A crowd of thousands of people packs the area immediately in front of the White House as President Roosevelt, assisted by his son, stands and waves from a portico. Clip is from a 1961 newsreel showing events 25 years earlier.

Date: 1936
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069260
USS Indianapolis (CA-35) leaving New York in November 1936 on a "Good Neighbor" excursion to South America.

From a short documentary film entitled, "Neptune's Realm" depicting a shellback initiation ceremony aboard the USS Indianapolis in November 1936. In this clip, slates provide background on the ceremony. Then there are scenes of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in New York. The ship leaves the dock with Statue of Liberty in the background. Kingfisher floatplanes visible on the ship's deck. The ship is decorated with flags, on its way to pick up President Franklin Roosevelt in South Carolina before proceeding to South America. A fleet of ships underway. Some scenes from a shellback initiation. A Polliwog looks through binoculars. Sailors dressed in costumes act during the Shellback ceremony.

Date: 1936, November 1
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675043898
German zeppelin airship, LZ 129, Hindenburg, arriving at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey.

Airship LZ 129 Hindenburg descending over Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, after traveling from Germany, on its first flight to the United States, May 9, 1936.

Date: 1936, May 9
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052064