Ku Klux Klan (KKK) rally in Washington DC. A crowd gathers on a road to watch over 30,000 KKK members marching and promoting their theme "100% Americanism." The U.S. Capitol in the background. Members of the KKK group walk on the street with the flags of the United States. Thousands of hooded but unmasked Ku Klux Klan members fill Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, stretching back to the U.S. Capitol building.
The flags of United States and United Kingdom fly from a launch. The British Battleship Cruiser ship, Renown, carrying Edward VIII, Prince of Wales, on his second Empire Cruise, is anchored nearby. The Prince of Wales, in military uniform, arrives by launch. He is accompanied by officials. As he steps from the dock, he is saluted by an American soldier. Accompanying him are British military and naval officers and U.S.civilian officials (in top hats). Lord Louis Mountbatten is a member of the Prince's party. Officials in the group include Air Commodore L.E.O. Charlton, the British Air Attache in the United States and Robert Wood Bliss, Chief of Western European Affairs in the U.S. State Department. Both were dispatched by the British and American governments, respectively, from Washington, DC. The Prince is greeted enthusiastically by a welcoming crowd. The Prince of Wales acknowledges the crowd. He enters an open car and is joined by U.S. State Department representative, Robert Wood Bliss.
Presidential election campaigns by Alfred Smith and Herbert Hoover in 1928, in the United States. Alfred Emanuel Smith, Democratic U.S. presidential candidate at a rally. People gathered outside the convention hall. Many officials and policemen walk with the crowd. Alfred Smith in a car waves to the people. People gathered to watch Alfred Smith at his election rally. Alfred Smith with his wife in a car. Hoover waves at crowd from the rear platform of a train . Hoover gives a speech. Loudspeaker being used for the election rally. Posters with a sign 'Elect Herbert Hoover, The Great Engineer President'. Election rally for Herbert Hoover, candidate from Republican Party.
An Allied supply convoy underway during the Allied invasion of North Africa, in World War 2.. Free French sailors and officers aboard their warship in the convoy. An officer with binoculars surveys the coast. Survey of the surroundings with binoculars by people on the deck. A naval officer surveys the sky using binoculars. An officer on phone looks at the navigational chart and uses the compass. The officer marks on the chart.
Wrecked and sunken ships and bodies of U.S. Army/Navy Scouts and Raiders who lost their lives during the Operation Torch invasion of North Africa, in World War 2. A wrecked supply ship aground in the surf. Bodies of two dead U.S. frogmen (Army/Navy Scouts and Raiders) in rubber suits with breathing apparatus. An inflated rubber raft nearby on the shore. Another red rubber boat further inland. Two destroyers sunk in shallow water.
A U.S. Army tank Sherman tank moves across the sand on beachhead during the invasion of North Africa (Operation Torch) in World War 2. U.S antiaircraft fire is directed at formations of German aircraft attacking the beachhead. Flak bursts of black smoke seen in the sky. Several landing ships are at the shore. Explosions on the shore from German bombs. A large explosion and black smoke from a ship in the bay struck by a German bomb.
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