U.S. marine of 4th division carves cross on a Memorial marker in memory of Marines from the 3rd, 4th , and 5th Divisions killed at Iwo Jima, in World War 2. Marine smoking a pipe.. Marine carves emblem of the U.S. Marine Corps on part of the memorial. Two marines sit and drink coffee in mugs and a one smokes a cigarette.
U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima, during World War 2. Sign: Booby Trap area Keep Out. Japanese prisoner sitting on rocks. Many U.S. marines stand and sit around him. He seems able to converse with them.. The prisoner smokes a cigarette.
Activities in Washington DC, immediately following the armistice ending World War 1. President Woodrow Wilson exits the White House and enters a Pierce Arrow limousine, license plate number 80002, in the driveway. It drives away. Scene shifts to the U.S. Capitol, where the car, with Secret Service agents on its running boards, drives past a crowd of people celebrating, who wave at the President. The crowd disperses after the President's car passes. A number of uniformed soldiers are present amongst the crowd. One speaks with several of the people gathered, and demonstrates how a carrier pigeon is used. He fastens a message on a carrier pigeon,and then releases it. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Professor Archibald Cary Coolidge of Harvard University, special assistant to the Department of State, assigned to the American Commission to negotiate peace after World War 1. He is seen in this sequence, with members of his staff, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, from where they assessed postwar political conditions in Austria-Hungary and neighborhood countries, and made recommendations for the U.S. participants at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. The sequence begins with staff members walking from the Hofburg (Hofburg, Michaelerkuppel 1010 Wien). It is January, and snow is on the ground. Professor Coolidge holds gloves in his left hand and warms his right hand inside his coat in Napoleonic manner, as he chats with others. Staff members are predominantly military officers and include both U.S. Army and Navy personnel.
United States President John F Kennedy speaks on the Cold War nuclear test ban at the American University (4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20016) in Washington DC. Graduates of the American University sit and clap. Professors sit on podium. President announces that the U.S. and Britain will send high level negotiators to Moscow in July for conference on a nuclear test ban. He says that the U.S. will discontinue nuclear tests unless some other country resumes them. “Confident and unafraid, we must labor on, not towards a strategy of annihilation, but towards a strategy of peace. Thanks.” President Kennedy concluded his speech.
Mexican Indians use reed and palm to make objects of everyday use in Mexico. Reed plants along Lerma River in Mexico. Map shows Mexico and Rio Grane. Mexico City in map. Location of Lerma River near Mexico City. Reed plants growth near by river. Men stand in water and cut plants. Man pushes bundle of Reed over water.
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