The 1964 season-opening baseball game at Griffith Stadium in Washington DC. Spectators and fans in the stadium. The seal of the President of the United States. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson arrives to throw out the first pitch at the opening game of the season. Photographers take photos. President Johnson gives his autograph on a ball for a player. The players of the Washington Senators and the Los Angeles Angels play the baseball game. The President watches the game, as the Los Angeles Angels win 4 to 0.
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Views of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Cubans aboard a boat headed towards a shore. They get off the boat. They enter from the gate of a building at the base to report for work. A guard checks their identification. A jeep drives along a road. A guard standing with a rifle looks at equipment. A bunker camouflaged with sand bags. A U.S. Air Force helicopter in flight.
U.S. President John Kennedy attends the first ballgame played at the new $20 million District of Columbia Stadium, or DC Stadium, in April 1962. 45,000 spectators in stands for the opening of the stadium and the Major League Baseball season. Glimpse of the new DC Stadium in Washington, DC, filled with baseball fans. President John F. Kennedy enters the ballpark, accompanied by David Francis Powers, and proceeds toward seats bearing the Presidential seal. Spectators in nearby seats stand to greet the President, and several shake his hand. Scene shifts to players and newsmen on the field all focused on President Kennedy. News photographers are busy photographing him. Camera shifts to President Kennedy making a long throw followed by the ballplayers scrambling for it on the ballfield. View of the President smiling after his throw, with Illinois Republican Senator Everett Dirksen standing to his left, and slightly behind him, and David Powers to his right. Senator George Smathers of Florida is laughing behind them. The President bends down momentarily revealing Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana, directly behind him and Special Assistant to the President Lawrence “Larry” O’Brien, at Mansfield's right. Associate Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher, wearing sun glasses is behind and to left of Dirksen. Closeup of Home plate umpire Charlie Berry shouting "Play Ball!" after brief rain delay. Lights are on during daytime as game is played. Washington Senators player hits single to left field. Senators go on to beat the visiting Detroit Tigers 4-1. (Note: The stadium was later renamed Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, or RFK Stadium, in 1969).
American Indians of the 158th Infantry, 2nd Battalion at Arawe, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago during World War II. U.S. soldier in foxhole. Soldier talks on telephone. Sergeant squad at diagram on ground. They advance across open area in jungle. A soldier in bunker. A soldier looks through binocular. A soldier operates 30 caliber water cooled machine gun. Team fires 30 caliber water cooled machine gun.
American Indians of the 158th Infantry, 2nd Battalion at Arawe, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago during World War II. A U.S. soldier eats food, other soldiers in the background. Two soldiers sitting in bunker with rifles. They smoke cigarette. A soldier seated beside tree. A soldier comes and sits beside him. He takes paper from another soldier and runs away.
American Indians of the 158th Infantry, 2nd Battalion at Arawe, New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago during World War II. U.S. soldiers fire mortar, other soldiers in the background. Soldiers look at ground of jungle for search purpose. Soldier connects telephone to wire. Colonel checks map and talks on phone. A soldier talks on phone. Soldiers on guard duty silhouetted against the sky.
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