Discussions on the Middle East crisis in the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. Soviet Prime Minister Alexey Kosygin arrives by an airplane. He descends down the stairs. His daughter Liudmila Gvishiani at the airport with her husband Dzherman Gvishiani. Kosygin speaks in the General Assembly of the United Nations about the Middle East and condemns the U.S. for allegedly encouraging Israel. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets Australian Prime Minister Harold Edward Holt and his wife Zara Kate Dickens. He talks about the Middle East crisis days after the Six Day War, and urges Israeli-Arab negotiation with world cooperation. In the old city of Jerusalem Palestine, the dividing wall separating Jewish and Arab sections of the Holy City is demolished by bulldozers and religious orthodox Jews in a pilgrimage flock to the Wailing Wall or Western Wall.
1940 Gridiron Football "Sugar Bowl" college football game at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana. Players of Texas A&M Aggies and Tulane Green Wave play the match. Crowd of spectators in stands watch the game and cheer. Players on the field and several plays shown. Fans gather on the field and shake the goal post, beginning to tear it down.
After having used cardboard cutouts of the Kaiser and German Crown Prince, in the Fourth Liberty Loan Drive, U.S. sailors dispose of them. Sailors are lined up at the Naval Supply Depot in New York City, watching as several of them hang a cardboard cutout effigy of the Kaiser over scraps of wood, which they set afire. All the sailors jump and cheer as the smoke and flames rise. They throw paper on the fire to help it burn. Others swing a cardboard effigy of the German Crown Prince, over the fire. As the sailors dance about and cheer, and the fire burns, one of them performs acrobatic tricks in front of the camera. Others come forward and dance for the camera. Finally, a hose is brought to the scene and used to extinguish the fire. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
First attempt of round trip trans-Atlantic flight from the United States. Men work on a Vulte V1A aircraft named 'Lady Peace' in a hangar at Floyd Bennett Field in New York. People look at the plane in which the first round trip TransAtlantic flight will be attempted from the United States.The aircraft is towed out of the hangar.
Airship LZ 129 Hindenburg, in flight, preparing to land at U.S. Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey. Passengers looking out from ship's Cabin. View of control gondola, under LZ 129. Passengers are helped to disembark. Bow of airship is secured to mooring mast. Ground crewmen surround the control gondola under the Hindenburg, in efforts to control movement during landing, as other ground crews grasp lines fastened to the airship. Stern views of Hindenburg, as ground crew maneuvers her on the ground.
Airship LZ 129 Hindenburg approaches in the far background. Hindenburg makes landing at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Hindenburg stabilized by the ground crewmen holding lines fastened to the airship. Cable attached to nose of the airship is wound onto mooring tower. Men on tower secure Hindenburg's cable to mooring tower.
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