A U.S. Army soldier seated on a chair takes a nap. A cup kept in front of him on the table. Children walking on sidewalk in small town America. Downtown view of small Indiana town. View of an American family of a small town seated in dining room for a dinner meal. Children exit a one room school house. Both a well-kept high school building and a rural simple school are shown, with boys and girls in bare feet exiting the poor rural school down a wooden ramp. Men lined up for work. Children playing in slum and tenement areas in poverty stricken areas. Quick views of skyscrapers, new schools, buildings, colleges (including view of Rice University in Houston Texas) and art galleries in the United States, including the National Gallery of Art entrance. A Texan in a cowboy hat delivers a John Randolph famed "Texas Brag" saying, "If all the hogs in Texas were one big hog, he could dig the Panama Canal with three roots and a grunt.” The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Labor organizer John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) states, "The American Federation of Labor can help if it will, it can uphold anything, but we shall carry on." An American town hall meeting in progress. (World War II period).
United States soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division doing jungle clearing operations during the Vietnam War. Bulldozer, possibly a Rome Plow, carrying soldiers follow the other soldiers who walked ahead. Bulldozer clears land through field. Soldiers examine the jungle, walking carefully with guns in hand. This is part of the dry season campaign of 1967 and continuance of Operation Atlanta in 1967.
President and Mrs. Lyndon Baines Johnson stand on steps of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church (400 St Francis St, Stonewall, TX 78671, United States), near the LBJ ranch in Stonewall, Texas. Their daughter, Luci Baines (Johnson) Nugent emerges from the church carrying their newly baptized grandson, Patrick Lyndon Nugent. Husband Patrick John Nugent stands beside his wife. Lynda Bird Johnson, proxy Godmother, poses with them and holds the baby.
Security camera footage of the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. An airplane takes off from the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal off the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam War. A second aircraft takes off from USS Forrestal. Another plane is about to take off when the camera shifts view to a airplane burning after its fuel tank has been ruptured by a Zuni rocket. Fire grows stronger as it engulfs the other planes parked nearby. Thick smoke envelopes the USS Forrestal.
Group of farm boys of Texas visit different states of United States. Dome of U.S. Capitol building seen framed by trees in Washington DC. Stream and a waterfall in Virginia. View of the Natural Bridge formation in Virginia. The farm boys stand at a long table outside and eat in Alabama. Two African American men stand and eat fried chicken. People stand at a train station in Texas, waiting for the railroad train. The train arrives. Boys hanging precariously from engine, cars, doors and windows. They wave happily and jump off the train as it arrives back in Texas.
California Relay in California. Large crowd of spectators gathered during the California Relay. The 220 yard dash began. Tommie Smith of San Jose State wins the race. Spectators cheer the racers. Jim Hines of Southern Texas wins the100 meter dash equalling the world record 10.0.
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