Co-founder of the Black Panther Party for self defense, Bobby Seale, seated in the organization's office, speaks about brutality and discrimination by police against African Americans in Oakland, California. He believes that black citizens are unfairly blamed for social unrest and claims that police and business interests are responsible. Sign on wall behind him reads: "Set Huey Free"
American writer, political activist, and Black Panther Party leader, Leroy Eldridge Cleaver, speaks about the impact of the Black Panthers on the situation in Oakland California. Eldridge Cleaver asserts that African American people are oppressed by the police and business interests. A white American policeman passes by on his motorcycle. Black Americans on streets. Black Panther Party members, including Elbert Howard and Bobby Seale, discuss the effect the Black Panther Party can have on police, as well as on African American troublemakers.
Former U.S. President Herbert Clark Hoover addresses people in Oakland, California during the Great Depression. He speaks out in favor of a balanced budget and against the new spending and taxation proposals of the New Deal under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He says, "The cost of the New Deal threatens to exceed that of the Great War...We have seen the creation of a most gigantic spending bureaucracy. That is not only a reduction of your standard of living, but of your freedom and your hopes. Here is where common sense cries out to be hear. The folly and waste must be cut out of this expenditure, and the federal government budget balanced, or we shall see one of three horsemen ravage this land: Taxation, or repudiation, or inflation...these issues transcend any group or individual. They represent the fate of the nation."
Events that took place in 1937. Del Mar race track opens with a handicap in Del Mar, California. Many Hollywood stars also witness the opening horse race at the race track. Stars seen include: Bob Burns, Pat O'Brien, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Lee Tracy, and Barbara Stanwyck. The race gets underway. Big Grey wins the inaugural handicap at Del Mar track.
A fashion show at Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. Models display the latest 1937 autumn collections by Los Angeles and Hollywood designers. The models display elegant, off shoulder evening gowns and dresses. A model showing off a metallic evening gown. A model displays a fur overcoat. Another model in tweed dress lifts her skirt to show her long boots.
Russian airmen Gromov, Yumashev, and Danilin set a nonstop flight endurance record in 1937 of 62 hours 17 minutes. The airmen fly a Tupolev ANT-25 over the North pole from Moscow to a dairy pasture outside San Jacinto, California (near Los Angeles). High altitude aerial view of the dairy pasture area and the safely landed Tupolev ANT-25. Cars and other vehicles parked at the field and people gathered at the airplane including local farming families. Views of the the three Soviet airmen ( Gromov, Yumashev, and Danilin) after setting the record, while greeting officials and posing for cameras. From an August 1962 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
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