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Franklin Delano Roosevelt , Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, and Secretary of War, Harry H. Woodring,at the Watervliet Arsenal, New York

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt inspects an arsenal in Watervliet, New York. He arrives in a 1938 Packard open car with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Secretary of War, Harry H. Woodring. A car with Secret Service agents follows. The U.S. Army Colonel in charge greets them upon arrival. Arsenal employees lined up on either side to greet the Presidential party, which drives slowly between buildings at the arsenal as Secret Service agents run alongside the car. Secret Service agents move enthusiastic Arsenal employees back as the President's car emerges from an Arsenal building. The Presidential party remains in the car as they inspect railway guns, a navy broadside gun and 155 mm guns at the Watervliet Arsenal. An Army Captain describes details of the guns to them. The Presidential party also visits the Revolutionary War historic sites, including the Block House, on the site of Fort Neilson and the headquarters of General Benedict Arnold of American Continental Army.. View of signs identifying these sites, and a view of the the blockhouse.

Location: Watervliet New York USA
Date: 1938
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072289
Graham McNamee, seated at a desk, congratulates City of Cleveland, Ohio, on the opening of its new Telenews movie theater

Inauguration of a theater in Cleveland, Ohio. Universal Newreel talking reporter and narrator, Graham McNamee, seated at a desk, congratulates the City of Cleveland for its new Telenews theater, devoted to movie newsreels.

Location: Cleveland Ohio USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072293
Technicians and physicists work on plutonium core nuclear device Gadget prior to Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico.

Activities the day before the Trinity nuclear test conducted at Alamogordo in New Mexico during World War II (part of the Manhattan Project). Technicians and physicists work inside a tent erected on the test tower platform in the Jornado del Muerto desert test site. The men perform final arming of the plutonium core nuclear implosion device nicknamed the "Gadget". White duct tape seen in use in places on and in the enclosure; as a adhesive since welding would be prohibitive. They attach the Gadget, the first atomic bomb in history, to a crane hook. Persons seen in the footage include Herbert Lehr and Louis Slotin. Also seen is Robert Oppenheimer at 0:38-0:40 wearing a soft brimmed hat, shirtsleeves rolled up to elbows, and ID badge at center of chest. Oppenheimer is seen again, no longer wearing hat (now holding it in his right hand), in blue collared shirt, standing behind the device from 1:13 to end of clip.

Location: Alamogordo New Mexico USA
Date: 1945, July 15
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072462
Views of wire connections to detonators on nuclear device 'Gadget' used in the Trinity nuclear test, Alamogordo, New Mexico

Views of the nuclear test device nicknamed, "Gadget", showing network of wires going to detonators surrounding core. The first ever atomic bomb device is in position at the top of its test tower, the day before it produced the first nuclear detonation in history. This device was detonated in the early morning of the next day, July 16, 1945. The detonation test event was named Trinity. (World War II period).

Location: Alamogordo New Mexico USA
Date: 1945, July 15
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072464
Boston police arrest rioters who create violence on the streets during race riots in Boston, Massachusetts.

Race riots in Boston, Massachusetts sparked by dissatisfaction with welfare system during the Civil Rights movement. African American rioters on the streets in the Roxbury section in Boston. They smash glass, set buildings on fire and loot stores. Mobs throw rocks and bottles at the Boston police. Firemen work to extinguish fires in burning buildings. A rooftop sniper wounds a fireman as he extinguishes a fire. Boston police arrest a rioter.

Location: Boston Massachusetts USA
Date: 1967, June 6
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072478
Champion Cassius Clay meets with top African American athletes during African American Industrial and economic union in Cleveland,Ohio.

African American Industrial and economic union in Cleveland,Ohio. World Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) meets with top African American athletes during the African American Industrial and Economic Union, to discuss his draft stance during the Vietnam War. Athletes include Bill Russel, Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), and Jim Brown. Jim Brown, the founder of the union, speaks about Clay's behavior. Cleveland Mayor Carl Burton Stokes is also present.

Location: Cleveland Ohio USA
Date: 1967, June 4
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072489
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