Thousands of children crowd the White House lawn for the annual Easter- egg rolling competition. Children wave at the camera. Faces of several children.
Three Soviet Airmen land on an airfield in San Jacinto,California after flying over the North Pole 6,700 miles without a stop from Moscow. Large crowd gathers at the airfield and greet their arrival.
Shows Senator Joseph T Robinson of Arkansas making a speech. American flag lowered to half mast in Washington DC on the death of Senator Robinson. The Capitol Building can be seen in the background.
Perry O. Stoughton sets on a 1000-mile voyage to San Diego on his sailing raft from Crescent City in California. Canned food and a barrel of drinking water is aboard the raft. Large crowd gathers at the peer to bid him farewell.
Horatio Casterbuilt of Coyote Canyon, Oregon displays a hat in which he fitted an electric fan to ward off the heat. Casterbuilt poses for the camera wearing his battery powered hat.
Scenes of Amelia Earhart taxiing her Lockheed Vega 5B airplane to the ramp, at Oakland Airport, on January 12, 1935, having left Wheeler Field, Honolulu the day before. This completed her solo flight from Honolulu, Hawaii (the first person to successfully accomplish such a transpacific flight). Crowds her airplane as she taxis in, and parks near a hangar of the U.S. Naval Air Station. Amelia stands in the cockpit of her airplane, holding a bouquet of flowers, as crowds mill about on the ramp beneath. Change of scene shows Amelia standing on a steel platform, of the airport tower, with her husband, George Putnam. Closeups of Amelia.
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