The keel laying of supercarrier USS Nimitz (CVAN-68) at the Newport News Ship Building & Drydock in Newport News, Virginia, USA. Washington State Senator Henry M. Jackson delivers a speech from the rostrum. Sign reads “USS NIMITZ CVAN-68 Keel laid June 22, 1968 Hull 59-”. United States Navy officers and guests listen to Senator Jackson’s speech. Closer shot of Senator Jackson delivering a speech. Podium displays the seal and name of Newport News, Virginia. Women guests listen to Senator Jackson’s speech. The bust of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is seen near the podium. Some guests are holding paper cups as they listen to the speech. A man drinks from a paper cup. Senator Jackson finishes his speech and leaves the podium. Spectators clapping. Mr. Holden steps forward to the podium.
From production "April Aftermath", showing mourning and grief throughout the United States after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. on April 4, 1968. The flag of the United States is lowered at half mast. People watch on television President Johnson's speech about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (leader in the American Civil Rights Movement). Families are seen at home gathered around the television to watch the speech. Views of several families of husband and wife and children gathered in their living rooms viewing television sets to watch the address. Most are white families. One family is an African American family watching television. President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers a speech. The Seal of the President of the United States on a dais. President Johnson declares April 7 as a national day of mourning for the civil rights leader. Mourning ceremonies are conducted in all churches and pilgrims of the United States. Television broadcast the faces of leaders and the news about the assassination and people expressing grief. A large crowd of civilians gather at a condolence meet. People in a line enter a building to express their grief. They come outside the building. A large crowd of civilians gather and attend the condolence ceremony. They express grief.
Richard Nixon political commercial on television in the United States. Voice over states that Nixon is the best candiate to speak for America. Still image scenes include a crowd of Americans gathered. The crowd marches. Leaders of several foreign countries including Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union and Fidel Castro of Cuba . Two telephones on a table. Many microphones on stands. The President's official seal. The White House in Washington DC.
The 1968 Miss America pageant at the Boardwalk Hall (2301 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Women pose and catwalk wearing a swimsuit. 20-year-old Miss Kansas, Debra Dene Barnes, wins 1968 Miss America. She poses for a photograph with flowers in her hand.
Self-portrait of Republican nominee Richard Nixon aired during his 1968 presidential run against Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in the United States. A photograph of Richard Nixon with his wife Pat Nixon. Richard Nixon's childhood photographs and family portraits. Richard Nixon tells his own story. Nixon says that his mother's side of the family were Quakers and father's side of the family were Methodists. He speaks about his grandmother. Photographs of his grandmother. Exteriors of the house of Nixon's grandmother.
Self-portrait of Republican nominee Richard Nixon aired during his 1968 presidential run against Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace in the United States. An interviewer asks Richard Nixon what sort of a life he lived when he was about 10 years old. He speaks how he used to work on his lemon ranch at that time and later on a service station and says that it was much of work and no play. The interviewer asks how his father and mother met. Nixon responds saying that his father came from Ohio and mother came from Indiana and they met in California. A church. Nixon speaks that his father was a Methodist and his mother a Quaker and they both met in a social church. An old picture of Nixon's father and mother. Nixon speaks more about his Quaker family.
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