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American comedian Bob Hope with his troupe for a show in Bien Hua in Vietnam

American comedian Bob Hope performs for United Service Organization (USO) in Bien Hua in Vietnam. Bob Hope and his troupe of entertainers perform in a USO Show. Banners read 'USO Shows'. Song and dance performances by Kaye Stevens, Anita Bryant, John Bubbles, Jerry Colonna and Carroll Baker. Harold and Fayard Nicholas perform as a team. The troops watch the show and applaud. Bob Hope talks to Carroll Baker. (Vietnam War period).

Date: 1965, December 25
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041110
Kefauver hearings excerpt - men addressing committee including head of the New York Anti-crime Committee

Excerpt from Kefauver Hearings. Senate's Kefauver Committee investigating crime and interstate commerce. Panel including Chairman Kefauver (Tennessee) in the hearing along with other committee members Herbert R. O'Conor (Maryland); Lester Hunt (Wyoming); Charles Tobey (New Hampshire); Alexander Wiley (Wisconsin). John Crane, President of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, admits to paying the mayor $10,000 for the support of the firemen. Spruille Braden, head of the New York City anti-crime committee, testifies and calls for tougher measures against criminals. Members of the Committee noting down points.

Date: 1951, March
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041134
U.S. President Harry Truman speaks to press

John Foster Dulles is among White House staff, Secret Service personnel, and members of the press, seated on chairs in a garden of the Little White House, at the U.S. Naval Station, Key West, Florida. Palm trees around. Rattan furniture and adirondack chairs. U.S. President Harry Truman arrives walking across lawn, and dressed casually. He sits on a chair. Several men standing in the background. The men and women take down notes. The President stands up to leave. [ Note: at TC: 00:19, the person in extreme right of frame is Adon Taft, of the Miami Herald's Key West Bureau (wearing bow tie). He shared these observations about Truman and times at the Little White House at Key West: " I walked with him every morning along with 3 or 4 national reporters and a couple of Secret Service agents. He would walk to the Caribe restaurant down near the Turtle Kraals and have a coffee and then go back. He frequently swam in the ocean. He was in good shape, had a good sense of humor, he was down to earth, friendly with the White House press corps, played poker with some of them. He usually attended Sunday services at the First Baptist Church when he was in town. When the presidential yacht was there, the entire crew would attend Youth for Christ rallies on Saturday night and church on Sunday. .Press conferences ended when the president of the White House press corps (Merriman Smith, of United Press International) signaled it by standing and thanking the president."]

Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041135
Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco visits her home land in the United States

Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, visits the United States with her children. The aircraft lands at Idlewild Airport (Present day John F. Kennedy International Airport - Queens, NY 11430, USA). Princess Grace climbs down the air stair of their Pan Am (DC-8-32 “Clipper Caroline”) plane with her two children, Princess Caroline and Prince Albert. A lady-in-waiting, likely Madge Tivey-Faucon, accompanies Princess Grace and her children on the trip. A huge crowd including photographers and press greets her.

Date: 1961, April 27
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041169
Schoneberg Rathaus and Phillips Radio building at Ansbacher Street in British zone of Berlin.

View of Rathaus Schöneberg (John-F.-Kennedy-Platz, 10825 Berlin, Germany), the Government seat of West Berlin. Two women enter a store along Kurfürstendamm. 'Radiogerate Aller Fabrikate' written on Phillips Radio building at Ansbacher Street in the British zone of Berlin. Berliner bank along Kurfürstendamm in Charlottenburg.

Date: 1952, September 3
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041178
United States President Woodrow Wilson at his Summer White House, Shadow Lawn, in New Jersey

United States President Woodrow Wilson and his party enter a car and leaves the White House in Washington DC for his Summer White House (or "Summer Capitol"), Shadow Lawn, in Long Branch New Jersey. Well-wishers at the White House stand and wave as the car departs the dirt road driveway of the White House, and a 2nd car with a security detail follows. View of Shadow Lawn, the estate of Joseph Benedict Greenhut. (The estate shown here was originally built in 1903 by John A. McCall of New York Life Insurance Company. He sold it to Greenhut. It was later destroyed by fire, and a mansion belonging to F.W. Woolworth President Hubert T. Parsons was built on the site. That estate is now part of Monmouth College). Large group of people gathered on the front lawn of Shadow Lawn to hear President Wilson speak at a 1916 campaign event. He is introduced and then approaches the podium as people cheer. The estate and podium area at the front of a soaring exterior portico is decorated with many American flags and swags.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041218