During the Cold War, a British Royal Air Force soldier describes a mounted M60 machine gun to a fellow RAF soldier and notes that the M60 machine gun has a range of 3725 meters with a maximum effective range of 1100 meters. A sign says “501st Tactical Missile Wing”. A U.S. Air Force C5-A Galaxy’s front open with BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile inside. The upward hinged door says “Military Airlift Command”. A soldier signals to the truck inside the aircraft. Soldiers working onBGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile. Soldiers adjust camouflage covering a BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile. Two camouflaged soldiers walk in front of a military vehicle towing a missile.RAF soldiers with an M60 machine gun. Rear view of BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile being towed along a dirt road. Close up of BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile wheels moving. A soldier, wearing glasses, driving a BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile. A BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile drives through a muddy, flooded road. View of undercarriage of BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile as it drives on road.
A ship burns furiously while docked in the Dunkirk Harbor. Partially sunken ships devastated after the Battle of Dunkirk during World War II. A soldier lying face down and motionless next to a truck. German soldiers carrying military equipment in Dunkirk beach, abandoned military equipment and dead Allied soldiers scattered all over. Gun turrets and scattered military equipment in Dunkirk Beach, materiel abandoned by the British Army when they evacuated days earlier. Sign on booth reads, "Patinoire" On Dunkirk Beach, military vehicles formed as a bridge used by the British to cross the water to reach their evacuation ships. A rubber dinghy on the beach, left behind by the British Army. A British Brodie helmet partially buried in the sand in Dunkirk Beach. Artillery guns in the Dunkirk docks. Unexploded bombs in pile, left behind by the retreated Allied forces. A French Army M26 Adrian helmet over a casket-like military equipment. The camera pans down to show “3” and a design showing a dwarf from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (likely Bashful the dwarf) riding a bomb in the sky and holding a pennant.
Winston Churchill walks with a retinue in Cuba during his tour of the country as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and after World War II. Winston Churchill, smoking a Cuban cigar, climbs with his wife, Clementine, and his retinue. Churchill puts on his hat and waves quickly in a terrace. Winston Churchill uses a pair of binoculars as he sits beside his wife while they watch a horse race. Churchill exits the grandstand. Winston Churchill smokes a Cuban cigar as he walks with his retinue. Winston Churchill is photographed. Churchill enters a Cadillac Fleetwood Series 75 limousine, before the car drives off. Winston Churchill, with cigar in his mouth, gets off the car. Winston Churchill shakes hands with United States military officers before he and his wife boards a United States Naval Air Service Bomber (Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress).
Artist Impression of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1953. Image of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Artist Impression of African-American boy reading a book inside a classroom. Image of young African American students studying in class. Image of an African American boy. Image of Chief Justice Earl Warren. Image of William L. Patterson, an African American lawyer who fought for black justice in American courts for years. Image of Martin Luther King Jr behind bars. Very brief images of Jim Crow era lunch counter sit in, and bus burning incident. Footage of whites protesting in favor of racial segregation. Image of Black Americans holding signs saying “Birmingham Merchants Unfair” and “Equal Opportunity and Human Dignity”. Image of white Americans holding placards saying “Close Mixed Schools”. Image of a black American couple running away from fire. Footage of black Americans walking to support civil rights while guarded by officers with shot guns in air. Brief footage of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members parading and holding the United States and the Confederate flags. Image of Martin Luther King Jr. with young Black Americans. Footage of black and white students clapping together to support civil rights. Image of Thurgood Marshall with wife, Cecilia Suyat, and a friend in Washington DC. Image of Thurgood Marshall. Image of President John F. Kennedy. Footage of Senator James Eastland, Senator of Mississippi, raising a gavel in front of photographers. US senate in session. Image of Thurgood Marshall speaking to Robert Kennedy. Image of Thurgood Marshall as a Solicitor General, walking on the steps of the United States Supreme Court in Washington DC. Image of Thurgood Marshall as the United States Solicitor General.
Crowd in front of Little Rock Central High School (2120 W Daisy L Gatson Bates Dr, Little Rock, AR 72202), protesting against desegregation called by a United States Court Order in 1957, during Civil Rights movement. 36th Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus at a press conference. National Guard in front of Little Rock Central High School. 101st Airborne Division Federal troops running. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks on enforcing Arkansas to respect court order and constitution. A U.S. Army Airborne Federal troop service man assists two African American students into a car. Airborne Federal troops assisting and guarding African-American students to get inside their car. Airborne Federal troops escort the car with African-American students on their way to school. 101st Airborne Division troops apprehend white teenagers and force others away at bayonet point. Airborne Federal troops escort an apprehended teenager. Students walk toward the school. An army truck passes by. Airborne Federal troops and federalized National Guard troops surrounding the Little Rock Central High School. Little Rock Central High School students crowd in front of the school as the troops apprehend them. President Dwight D. Eisenhower ends his speech with the words, “thus will be restored the image of America and all its parts as one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”.
Wide view of skyline of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Various scenes of activity in busy urban cities: A street crowded with pedestrians walking. View of pile driver in operation. Construction worker uses a jackhammer. Pedestrians on their way to work cross a street. A police traffic officer, wearing sunglasses, directs traffic. A wrecking ball hits a brick wall. Man pushes a clothes trolley as he crosses a street. Man operates a loader. A man buys a pie through an automat door. An African-American man eats a hotdog sandwich. A man, wearing glasses, finishes his drink and buys a newspaper. A front end loader scoops and unload rubble from demolished building. Men entering a building through a glass revolving door. Buses pass by near a train. San Francisco Cable Car climbing up the road. A wrecking ball hits a brick wall. Close up of a woman’s eye open. A woman’s vital signs being examined by a doctor to study her stress level. She has a cuff on her arm, possibly for measurement of blood pressure.
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