A United States Marine Corp (USMC) Marine uses a field telephone. A Marine smoking a cigarette seen from behind. Marines fighting in a jungle. Louis W. Walt, 3rd Marine Amphibious Force Commanding General in 1966, speaks about the Marines in various wars. A Marine with a cigar in his mouth. An impoverished woman with child. A young African girl holding a basket of bread. A United States Marine Corp Sikorsky H-34 helicopter in flight. Marine helicopter squadron 365 moving in from the aircraft carrier USS Boxer (CV-21) to Caribbean countries affected by Hurricane Inez such as Dominican Republic and Haiti. Sikorsky H-34 helicopter takes off from USS Boxer. Aerial view of a town damaged by Hurricane Inez. The Sikorsky H-34 helicopter lands in Haiti. Haitian civilians, including a Roman Catholic nun, talk to United States Marines. Haitian newspaper front page features news about President Duvalier “Le Président Duvalier agit contre les effets du Cyclone” in French. An English translation “President Duvalier acts against the effects of Hurricane Inez” replaces the headline. A Marine medic treats a patient while a Haitian man covers his face from the sun. An injured woman with her child with their heads covered by gauze. United States Marine checks head injuries of hurricane victims and put bandages on patients. Haitian civilians carry an injured man on a makeshift stretcher. Injured Haitian children and a girl with an arm cast. Civilians carry supplies. Children walk in a village destroyed by Hurricane Inez. A Marine carries corrugated aluminum sheet for roofing. Marines help Haitian civilians rebuild houses in the village.
The world struggle for oil is depicted. Use of components of oil in homes and in railroads in the United States is shown. A dramatization shows the effect of a kerosene lamp on social life. A woman seated in a chair near a table in a room. A kerosene lamp in a corner. A man opens the door of the room and walks in. The woman gets up and welcomes the man. They both walk to a seat and sit down. Another woman enters the room. The man stands to greet her. She increases the light of the lamp and then leaves the room. The man decreases the light of the lamp. The man and the woman talk. The 1893 replica of the 1831 DeWitt Clinton steam locomotive is shown in operation with its three carriage train, in New York City. The DeWitt Clinton was the first railroad locomotive to operate on the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad in New York. The reproduction seen here was built in 1893 by the New York Central Railroad for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This footage was shot on July 17, 1921 when the DeWitt Clinton train was preparing for a trip to another exposition in Chicago. On this day it ran several times from 96th to 116th streets in New York City. New York Central employees are seen on the drain, dressed as passengers would have been in 1831. This replica was later displayed at Grand Central Terminal in New York City, and is is now on display at The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn Michigan. It was acquired by Henry Ford in 1934, in an agreement with the New York Central that it would continue to travel to events on occasion.
German prisoners of war in the United States during World War 2. Prisoners peel potatoes and tend garden in United States. The German prisoners peel potatoes. The prisoners tend garden. Prisoners plant new plants in garden.
A biographical documentary shows the life of Dwight David Eisenhower who was the President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. Dwight David Eisenhower and officers salute. Others stand near him. Eisenhower with his wife Marie Geneva Doud “Mamie” Eisenhower attend the birth of their granddaughter, Susan Eisenhower. Eisenhower and his wife coos over baby Susan as her mother Barbara holds her. He walks with his wife. Soldiers holding flags salute. Dwight David Eisenhower in a car salutes them. He sits with a woman. In 1948 he is appointed as the President of Columbia University in New York. He walks with other professors. He is being honored and appointed as the president by other personnel. He addresses the students. In Washington: A plane taxis. Dwight David Eisenhower comes out of a car. Cameramen click pictures. Dwight David Eisenhower wearing a hat stands. He enters a building. He opens his coat. He is greeted by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. The United States Capitol building.
Draftees of the United States Army at an Army camp during World War I. Cooks prepare food for the new recruits in training at an open mess area. Draftees move slowly carrying utensils for food. Cooks give meal to all the draftees, spooning out beans onto plates. Group of World War I soldiers of the United States Army carrying their rifles, march past a bridge. A boy in uniform walks beside them.
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.
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