Investigation of Suffocation deaths of four inmates at the Holmesburg Prison. View of the Holmesburg County Prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A man closes the gate of the prison. State and County Officials discuss amongst themselves and then enter the jail. Scenes of punishment unit used to overheat the air tight cells the men are kept in.
Motorcade of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives at Tampa De Soto Exposition in Key West, Florida. Secret service men walk behind President's car and a man opens a door for President Roosevelt. Navy officials gathered on docks of harbor. President Roosevelt speaks into microphones at the event, commenting on United States values and positions and saying: "We seek no territorial expansion. We are not covetous of our neighbor's goods. We shall cooperate in every proposal honestly put forward to limit armaments. We abhor the appeal to physical force, except to repulse aggression. He continues, "...the institutions of democracy, government with the consent of the governed, must and shall be maintained." A small Navy boat tender with the President and Navy personnel on board. (Event was several months before invasion of European countries by Germany in World War 2.)
Airplanes in a line. Brazilian Army Chief inspecting planes and United States military personnel explain about the plane in Langley Field, Viginia. A plane takes off and army chief sees it fly. Planes fly by as army officials watch.
Paul McNutt, United States Commissioner to Philippines with his wife and daughter in San Francisco, California. Cannon salute to McNutt. Soldiers on parade. McNutt seen at the Golden Gate International Exposition, in front of Philippines building and crossing the gate.
Governor General of Canada Georges Vanier and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker greet U.S. President John F Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Kennedy. President Kennedy arrives at Governor's house and sits with Governor Vanier and other dignitaries. United States flag outside Candian Parliament. Jacqueline Kennedy takes her position in the Parliament gallery. President addresses joint session of the Parliament.
American aviator and businessman Howard Hughes having lunch at a restaurant in Chicago on May 14, 1936. Other people sitting and standing behind him. Hughes stands up from his seat. View of propeller on his Northrop Gamma 2G airplane being started. Hughes has his goggles on his head and takes off toward California. View of Union Air Terminal (2627 N Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505, United States) in Burbank, California. Hughes steps out of plane in Los Angeles after 8 hours flight. In next scene, aviator Amy Johnson, CBE, wife of Jim Mollison, emerges from her Percival Gull Sixplane. G-ADZO, in Cape Town, South Africa on May 7, 1936 after a record-setting four day and sixteen hours flight from London. A large crowd waits to see her. People greet her with flowers. Johnson is seen among the large crowd and smiling and waving to the crowd. Scenes in clip are from a 1961 newsreel recounting events roughly 25 years prior.
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