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Aerial views of Abilene, Texas and interviews with residents as they prepare for the transfer of the B-1B Bomber to Dyess Airforce Base near Abilene, Texas

Aerial view of Abilene, Texas and a prominent building, The Enterprise, 500 Chestnut St, Abilene, TX 79602, United States. Fred Lee Hughes speaks about living in Abilene and Abilene’s relationship with the United States Air Force. Aerial view of Dyess Airforce Base, Texas. Front view of a vehicle slowing down to a checkpoint with a United States guard. A sign reads “Dyess AFB and Abilene Community welcome the B-1B in 2 Days”. Aerial view of Texas farmlands. Wheat bows gently from the wind in the foreground as combine harvests wheat. Close up of a Green John Deere Combine harvesting wheat. Trucks line up at concrete grain silos. Railroad hopper car pulling up to grain silos. Man crosses gap between two railroad grain hopper cars. Men walking on hopper cars open roof doors to receive grain and position grain shoot over hopper door. A man crouches as he harvests potatoes from a field. Fred Lee Hughes speaks about the people of Abilene. Aerial view of Abilene’s outskirts and the Hardy Grissom Ranch east of Abilene. View of large corral with many head of cattle. Phil Guitar, owner operator of the Grissom Ranch, speaks about the community having a good relationship with Dyess Airforce Base. Fred Lee Hughes speaks about the feelings of Abilene residents of the impending arrival of the B-1B, and notes that the community is anxious to get the B-1 bomber and associated combat crew training squadron.

Date: 1985, July 5
Duration: 2 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078977
African American students gain knowledge of medicine, economics, chemistry at Prairie View College and Howard University in the United States (WW2)

African American colleges in the United States during World War II. College curricula adjusts to war needs as they prepare students for various military and civilian occupations including war material production at factories and manufacturing. A sign reads ' Prairie View College' (Present day Prairie View A&M University, 100 University Dr, Prairie View, TX 77446) in Prairie View, Waller County, Texas. College campus with students milling about. Students at an agriculture class learn to maintain farm equipment, animal husbandry. African American students work to make machines. They work on machines as they would help to meet manpower requirements. A building at the Howard University (2400 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059) in Washington DC. Students in a mechanical design class learn to make designs of tanks, guns, and other war equipment. Students in a meteorological class study celestial navigation to guide airplanes. Students in a laboratory study the chemistry of a powder. At Howard University medical school students being taught the use the gravity of blood plasma in the battlefield by noted pioneer in blood plasma, Charles R. Drew. At the Howard University College of Liberal Arts, students learn the economics of war. An African American professor teaches a class on Industrial Accounting.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059204
Rescue missions provide food and medical supplies and flood relief in Texas after Hurricane Beulah

Flooding in aftermath of Hurricane Beulah in South Texas, United States. An area submerged in water. View of the Nueces River completely over its banks and flooding a massive area. Aerial view of flooded land under water. Officers discussing about the flooding. An officer talking over a phone. Aerial view of flood waters having broken through a dam and sending flood waters into Harlingen through the Arroyo Colorado. People laying sand bags to control flooding. Rescue work being carried on. People traveling in a motor boat to stranded residents in Harlingen Texas. U.S. Army helicopters hovering over the area to evacuate the Texas State Tuberculosis Hospital. The hospital patients being treated by doctors and nurses. Aerial view of the flooded area in Texas and in Mexico. Food and medical assistance being provided to the people by helicopter airlift. People lined up outside a building. The doctors and the nurses treating the wounded.

Date: 1967, September
Duration: 3 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076804
Charles Whitman fires from a tower at University of Texas killing 15 in Austin, Texas.

Mass shooting at the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas. Student Charles Whitman opens fire from the University of Texas Main Building tower (110 Inner Campus Drive, Austin, TX 78705, United States). People running about in the campus to escape the fire. Students hide behind cars. Wounded students being carried away. Police cars in the campus. Rifles and guns discovered from Whitman being displayed. The University of Texas tower shooting killed nearly 15 people.

Date: 1966, August 1
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042878
A crowd gathers outside the University of Texas in Austin, Texas after a students kills several people.

Aftermath of the University of Texas tower mass shooting in Austin, Texas. University of Texas student Charles Whitman fires bullets from the tower of the building killing 15 people and wounding 33. Exterior of the University of Texas Main Building tower (110 Inner Campus Drive, Austin, TX 78705, United States). Men kneeling on a street. Cars parked on the street. Men run. A crowd gathers outside the university. Men carrying a casualty away. Cars parked on the street. Rifles and guns on a table. The crowd rushes towards the building.

Date: 1966, August 1
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070353
Teams of doctors and nurses arrive to help victims of Hurricane Beulah in south Texas, United States.

A documentary on occurrence of Hurricane Beulah in Texas. High water flooding in the Rio Grande River as it bursts its banks and reservoirs, flooding towns in South Texas and in Mexico. Houses and an area submerged in water. A man standing on the roof of a house. Aerial view of the flooded area. People standing on a pontoon bridge in an area submerged in water. A helicopter hovering over the area. People filling the town of Roma Texas and Rio Grande City, and seen inside a building. Children sleeping on a floor. A doctor treating the wounded. Another doctor talking about diseases and their treatment over a phone. Several doctors and nurses arrive to help the victims. They hold surgical instruments.

Date: 1967
Duration: 2 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076803