Allied victory in southern France during World War II. Prisoners of war come down a stairway. Prisoners in a truck with captured arms being guarded by French partisans. German prisoners march as American soldiers guard them. A French woman looks at the prisoners. Boots of the prisoners as they march. A column with a Red Cross flag moves away on motorbikes. The prisoners walk through city streets. Civilians gathered outside a cathedral as they hold hands in a 'V' sign. French flags on the cathedral.
Propeller starting up on a B-17 bomber. Pilot in cockpit as propeller spins up on B-17 named "Thunderbird." The Thunderbird B-17 taxiing towards the runway. View of building on military air base. Close up of "Thunderbird" nose art and pilot flashing the V for victory sign during start up. "Marnita No. 1" and many mission symbols painted on B-17. Propeller starting to spin for engine start. Ground crewman saluting and clasping his hands above head in victory symbol. Pilot of Thunderbird B-17 patting a propeller on the plane and flashing the OK sign.
Flowers and grass blowing in the wind. Parked B-17 bomber. Ground crew working on B-17. Flowers blowing in the wind foreground with B-17 parked behind. Ground crew kneeling together while fixing a part. Contrails in sky form a V victory sign as camera pans down to B-17 on tarmac.
Artist impression of the House of Representatives as the United States Congress passes the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Images of Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s. African-American student, victim of the Lamar High School School Bus Attack, listens to Frank Jackson, the attorney defending him, as he lectures him about the history of African-American rights and freedom. Off camera, Jackson quotes the 14th Amendment, saying, "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens." Image of Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina. Off camera, Jackson quotes Tillman's comment about "virus of equality..." Artist impression of Black Americans in court during Reconstruction. Students inside the school bus on their way to Lamar High School School before bus attack. Image of Black-Americans inside a moving bus during the 1960s-1970s. Jim Crow signs seen, including a sign reading “White only Ladies Rest Room”. Image of a doctor standing in a door labeled “COLORED” while talking to patient with baby. Image of door with sign that says “White-Trade”. Image of door with sign that says “Colored-Trade”. Image of President Rutherford Hayes. Fire burning. Artist impression of Ku Klux Klan members in costume hanging (lynching) a Black American. Man menacingly holds a bat and says “They’ll gonna wish they was never born”. A view of the United States Supreme Court. Artist Impression of Homer Plessy refusing to move from the White people coach to the Jim Crow train coach in 1896. “Equal justice under law” engraved on the front of the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington DC. Artist impression of John Marshall Harlan, former Attorney General of Kentucky and great dissenter of cases that restricted civil rights such as “Plessy v. Fegurson”. “But until a majority of judges on the Supreme Court would agree, Black Americans would find little justice” says Frank Jackson.
King George V of the United Kingdom reviews children in uniform in France during World War 1. Queen Mary of Teck, the Queen consort of the United Kingdom, reviews women associated with an ambulance corps and reviews British nurses stationed in France with daughter, Princess Mary.
Crowds gathered in bleachers and viewing area near the Kennedy Space Center in anticipation of the NASA Apollo 11 launch. Launch controllers at mission control cosely monitor the Apollo 11 launch on Launch Complex 39A. Apollo 11 Public Affairs Officer (PAO) Jack King announces the progress of the launch countdown. Launch controller uses binoculars to watch the launch. Jack King starts countdown. Spectators use binoculars, a woman uses a camera. View of launch pad with birds in foreground. The Apollo 11 Mission’s rocket, Saturn V SA-506, in sky after launch. POV from landing craft of craters on the moon’s surface. Neil Armstrong’s first walk on the moon. Neil Armstrong says “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. Neil Armstrong’s left footprint- the first human footprint on the moon.
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