A new elementary school opens in Crete, Greece. The flag of the United States can be seen on the right. A plaque detailing the school’s opening year 1962 and important details in Greek. Greek elementary school children clap hands. United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) visits the new elementary school during an official visit in Crete, Greece. A Greek teacher teaches young students in classroom. A Greek girl asks a question to her teacher. Greek teacher teaches male students botany inside a school greenhouse. Greek high school students do homework together in library. Greek boy uses book for homework.
Daughter of United States President Nixon, Patricia “Tricia” Nixon, celebrates her wedding shower before her marriage to Edward Cox in Washington DC. Tricia Nixon's wedding invitation card opens. Crowds gathered at the entrance of the White House. Tricia Nixon and Edward Cox come out of the door to be greeted by wedding guests. Cameramen take the newly-weds’ photographs. Musicians play music. The guests congratulate the couple. Tricia Nixon and her husband leave the reception and get inside a car. Wedding guests toss rice grains at the couple. Singers and a guitarist perform traditional Irish songs in the White House during the visit of Irish Prime Minister, John Mary “Jack” Lynch, to the United States. United States President Richard Nixon, along with his wife Patricia Nixon, onstage. President Nixon announces the engagement of his daughter Tricia Nixon with Edward Cox. The guests stand and clap for them. Tricia and Edward join President Nixon onstage. Edward’s parents, Howard Ellis Cox and Anne Crane Cox also join them on stage. Tricia Nixon’s wedding shower in the Sheraton Park Hotel apartment suite residence of United States Vice President Spiro Agnew, hosted by Mrs. Elinor “Judy” Agnew. Lobster served on a tray. Dishes such as lobster, cocktails, and fresh fruits served on the dining room of the Vice President Agnew's residence. Decorated dining table with food. Wedding shower host Judy Agnew lights up the candle on the table. Tricia arrives at Agnew's residence for her wedding shower party. Elinor welcomes Tricia, her mother Pat, and sister Julie. Tricia is accompanied by Patricia and Julie Eisenhower. Guests in a room. Some gifts on a table. A “Blue Tree” Lennox Chinaware Tricia Nixon received from Mrs. Agnew. Tricia Nixon holds her new Lismore crystal glass. Tricia Nixon trying out a filmy white negligee with marabou feather. Tricia Nixon and her guests surrounded by gifts. Prior to this party she has also received a shower party from a member of Washington Women's Press Corps, Helen Thomas. Tricia shakes hand with Helen Thomas. Women reporters in the party. Tricia shows her wedding gifts. Tricia Nixon wearing an oversized novelty sunglasses, much to the amusement of her wedding shower guests.
Drawings and sketches of Washington DC in the 18th and early 19th Century. A film titled 'Washington, D.C., A Living City', United States. 19th Century photographs including: view of a street in Washington DC with several buildings on either side of the road. View of a document entitled "Plan of the Dress Circle of Ford's New Theater, 10th Street, Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian "castle" building (1000 Jefferson Dr SW, Washington, DC 20560, United States), with a canal filled with water. View of Pennsylvania Avenue, with the Post Office building on the right. Open trolley cars moving in the street. The United States Capitol (First St SE, Washington, DC 20004, United States) is seen from a distance.
Nazi spies involved in Operation Pastorius are tried in the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington DC. The exteriors of the Supreme Court of the United States. The captured would-be saboteurs are taken to the Court in armored paddy wagons to be tried for espionage, attempted sabotage, and treason. View of the accused riding in the vans, and the vans entering near court building. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent digs with a shovel on sand beaches in Long Island, New York, to find explosives stored there by the spies. FBI agent shows the incendiary devices carried by the Germans who landed on the Atlantic shore from a submarine. An FBI agent shows captured uniforms, belt containing money, wooden blocks loaded with hidden detonator caps, pens and pencils that contain incendiaries to start fires. An indendiary pencil is demonstrated. Seven U.S. Army Generals, appointed by President Roosevelt to hear the case, are seen outside the court building. The Generals enter the court. Two high ranking U.S. officers appointed to defend the accused are seen as they enter the court. Prisoners enter the court, escorted by guards. Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States, John Edgar Hoover, enters the courtroom. The officers sit. Attorney General of the United States Francis Beverley Biddle present and seen during court proceedings. Prisoners sit during the trial. (World War II period).
United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) waves at a crowd in Iran while standing in a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible during an official visit to the Middle East and Southern Europe. A huge crowd listen to a speech by Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) in Greece. Cameraman readies his camera to capture Lyndon B. Johnson’s speech. Lyndon B. Johnson delivers a speech behind the podium, about the hopes “…We, of United States have for the future in this broad area of the world”. On Lyndon B. Johnson’s right is his daughter, Lynda Bird Johnson. From his convertible, Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with people. United States Air Force Two, a Boeing 707 carrying Lyndon B. Johnson, arrives at Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport. Lady Bird Johnson alights aircraft with Lyndon B. Johnson. Airplane door showing the seal of the Vice President of the United States. Lyndon B. Johnson meets Lebanese Foreign Minister, Philippe Takla, after Johnson disembarked from Air Force Two. Photographers capture shots of Lyndon B. Johnson arriving at Golestan Palace in Tehran, Iran in a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible. Lyndon B. Johnson meets Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran aka Shah of Iran, and Iranian Prime Minister Asadollah Alam in the Golestan Palace. Lyndon B. Johnson in a meeting with Turkish President Cemal Gürsel, Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Cemal Erkin and Prime Minister Mustafa İsmet İnönü. Lyndon B. Johnson meets Makarios III, the President of Cyprus, during official visit to Nicosia, Cyprus. Cypriot Parliament in Nicosia. Vice President of Cyprus Fazıl Küçük attends. Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson pose together with King Paul of Greece and his wife, Queen Frederika of Hannover in Tatoi Palace, Athens. Lyndon B. Johnson confers with Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis. Turkish people with American and Turkish flags listen to Lyndon B. Johnson. View of Ancient Greek Acropolis ruins. Lyndon B. Johnson says in his speech, “Thousands of years before man set foot upon the shores of our New World, great glories of civilization have been wrought here in the lands of the Middle East”.
United States General Joseph Stilwell discusses plan with Major General Frank Dow Merrill during World War 2. Insignia of the China Burma India Theater (CBI). Nationalist Chinese soldiers march toward a United States Army Air Force transport plane to India. USA Army Air Force plane takes off, heading for India. At the U.S. Army Chinese Training and Combat Command at Ramgarh, India, Chinese soldiers train under the United States Army leadership. Aerial view of tents and buildings at Ramgarh. General Stilwell personally instructs Chinese soldiers as they shoot at targets while in prone position. Chinese troops charge out of a trench, crawl with guns under barbed wire, and avoid gun fire and explosions. India Command Formation insignia. British General Archibald Wavell inspects soldiers in formation. General Archibald Wavell shares a map with Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, who was made Commander in Chief, India, for the British. British Indian soldiers seen in training, as they lift logs, jump over obstacles, climb ropes, and practice jumping from a parked airplane fuselage during parachute training. Next, soldiers are seen jumping out of an aircraft in flight with parachutes. British Indian soldiers descending with parachutes. United States soldiers unload supplies. Allied soldiers marching. Indian infantry marching in farmland. Gurkha soldiers from Nepal march with donkeys. Naga headhunters from Assam and northwestern Burma. East and West African soldiers. British colonial regiment, the Burma Rifles marching. Soldiers from the Kachin people of Burma and Southwestern China. Allied soldiers in India coming from various races- Scots, Irish, English, Welsh, Australian, New Zealander, Indian, Gurkha, Burman, African, Chinese and American. Multinational army from Allied countries.
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