Girls participate in a horse race at the Agua Caliente Racetrack in Mexico. Girl jockeys stand in a line in front of the Agua Caliente Racetrack building. A girl jockey with her horse. A girl seated on the horse back. The girl jockeys at the starting point. Horses on the track. Jockeys on their horses' back. The race starts. The spectators watch the race. Babe De Freest is the winner of the race. She shows her medal.
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.)
July 26, 1953. View of the Moncada army barracks near Santiago de Cuba. Soldiers are dispatched and walk past bullet pocked walls to view the bodies of dead revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro in an unsuccessful attack on the barracks. They sort through a pile of materials, including weapons, taken from the fallen revolutionaries. The Army is preparing to pursue the revolutionaries, who have fled into the mountains.View of military hospital. Flag-covered coffins of fallen combatants are lined up in a courtyard, surrounded by spectators. Armed guards are present. Police examine arms captured from revolutionaries and their damaged hideout. Violence is seen in the streets, as police try to control it. Injured persons brought to a hospital. Castro is surrounded by admirers and talks to them.
Free French troops on parade in North Africa. De Gaulle reviewing Free French sailors. American soldiers on parade grounds. American officers reviewing troops. American and French officer reviewing troops. General Eisenhower bestowing higher rank on General Mark Clark. General mark Clark stands. General Eisenhower entering plane. American troops posing with natives. Group of American nurses giving "Thumbs up" salute. American nurses eating. All the women nurses are wearing combat helmets. (World War II period).
People gather around an English SE 5 plane at De Mille Field in Hollywood, California. People around a captured German Fokker. Two captured German maxim rapid fire guns shown by a man in front of Fokker plane number 8530/18.
Mary Pickford and a group of distinguished guests at De Mille Field in Hollywood, California on Air Memorial Day. Officers with Mary Pickford. Admiral William Fullam talks with officers. Frank A Garbutt,member of LAAC and Colonel Henry (Hap) A. Arnold talking near a car. They see a plane flying. Lieutenants Bruce McNeil and Howard Rath, DSC walking.
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