U.S. Army training camp for World War 1 service. Group of American soldiers demonstrates a charge and use of bayonet during a drill. Other soldiers stand in formation. Trees in the background.
Clearing the paths in mine fields in the United States. Tanks pulling devices on a field. Men standing nearby. The mine detonators are tested. The M-3 device working on the field to clear the path. Smoke rises from explosions. Men holding a jet motor. The M-1 device is used to clear the path. The M-6 device is used in heavily mined areas. Trees in the background. Smoke rises from explosions.
United States President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in Washington DC, United States. The meeting of the Congress for the signing of the bill. View of car and other vehicle traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, looking toward the Old Post Office building (1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004) and the U.S. Capitol building beyond. The exterior of the Capitol building with American flag waving on flagpole. People walking on the street in front of the building. People gather in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The exterior of the White House. Officials gather inside the building. U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson seated at a desk. The President addresses the legislators and people and talks about civil rights, justice, and peace for the people. President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Bill. Lawmakers and guests gather around him. He gives signing pens to Everett Dirksen and Hubert Humphrey, and then to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., and to FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. Several pens are given to Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to be given to various members of the Kennedy family.
U.S. aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific Ocean. Preparations for the air raid on North Vietnam. Pilots and newsmen briefed before the raid. U.S. aircraft parked on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. Men working on the ship. The men load bombs aboard the aircraft. The aircraft takes off from the flight deck and in flight.
Crew members aboard the SS Chantier, look over the ship's side and seize an American flag from the hand of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander, Richard Byrd, as he climbs aboard, dressed in his arctic parka. Next, Byrd and pilot Floyd Bennett, are seen surrounded by cheerful, congratulatory expedition members, as they stand on the deck. An illustrated scroll is seen listing America's polar heroes: Robert E. Peary and Richard E. Byrd, both of the U.S. Navy. Closeup of Richard Byrd. A message of congratulations to Commander Byrd, sent from the Presidential Yacht, USS Mayflower, dated May 9, 1926, and signed by President Calvin Coolidge.
Film opens with view from a building overlooking President Woodrow Wilson's Inauguration Day parade along Pennsylvania Avenue, on March 4, 1913. A large contingent of U.S. Army West Point cadets march in forefront of the parade. Spectators line the sidewalks. Several stand atop buildings. Outgoing President, William Howard Taft is seen in his office signing a bill establishing the U.S. Department of Labor. Closeup of the bill and Taft signing it. Scenes of traffic and pedestrians in New York City. Some of the pedestrians appear to be wealthy class. Crowded early 20th century city streets filled with various horse drawn carriages together with bus traffic and early automobiles in chaotic confusion. A double decker bus with open top and sign "Fifth Avenue" and lower sign "To 22nd Street Only" operates in busy traffic on 5th Avenue beside horse drawn carriages and other motorized vehicles. Glimpses of women working in a factory; Men pouring molten metal into molds; Women punching time clocks as they leave a factory. Newly arrived immigrants at Ellis Island, New York City circa 1910 or during first 10 years of the 1900 decade. View of the Statue of Liberty. Women working in a textile factory. Men tapping a furnace in a steel plant. Pushcarts and peddlers at market lining the curb in a Jewish neighborhood of New York City (possibly lower east side). Brief view of pioneer Labor leader Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor. He hold a walking stick and doffs his hat. Sketches illustrating scenes of labor-related violence. Department of Labor sign being affixed to its location. A horse and wagon, representing the first assets of the new Department. A group of persons illustrative of the employees in the Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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