Recovery efforts from the Great Depression in the United States. (Footage largely from mid 1930's, produced in 1967). A farmer plows his field using oxen. Men and women work in fields. Price tags on food products. Officials of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in an office discuss reforms to solve farming over production and low demand. Statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial. The White House building. Scenes of dilapidated farms and fields overcome by drought and dust bowl conditions. Farmers sit outside their houses fatigued and exhausted. Faces of tired, fatigued farmers. A town meeting of farmers in a small town. Franklin Roosevelt with cabinet and other officals in early days of his administration. Floods in Tennessee Valley washing away farmland. Farmland scarred by erosion lines and trenches. The Tennessee Valley Authority builds dams and power plants in the Tennessee Valley and helps farmers reclaim and improve land. Farmers in a rural town listen to a Tennessee Valley Authority official present plans of development. Establishment of Rural Electrification Administration. Electric power lines set up in the rural areas of the United States. Franklin Roosevelt addressing the U.S. Congress in the Capitol. Scenes from voting centers and of a voting booth in an American town. Wendell Willkie addressing a crowd. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt converses with an African American official (possibly in connection with signing of Executive Order 8802, the Fair Employment Act). Eleanor Roosevelt behind him, and Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr. to her left. Eleanor Roosevelt speaking to group of African American children.
Funeral services for Astronauts Lt Col Virgil I Grissom and Lt Roger B Chaffee at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. People standing along the cemetery. Woman mourns. Caskets arrive at the cemetery. Officers standing. Casket wrapped in United States flag. Officers lifts the casket. The casket is placed on a bier. The officers lifts the flag over the casket.
Funeral services for Astronauts Lt Col Virgil I Grissom and Lt Roger B Chaffee at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. A half mast flag amidst trees in the cemetery. Airplanes flying in the sky. People gather at the cemetery. Caskets arrive on caisson. Soldiers on horses coming along with the caisson. They lift the casket wrapped in United States flag. Soldiers saluting. Officers place the casket on bier. They hold the flag over the casket.
Funeral services for Astronauts Lt Col Virgil I Grissom and Lt Roger B Chaffee at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. President Johnson's car arriving at the gravesite. Soldier saluting. Other officers walking with the car. People gather at the cemetery. Wreaths on the ground. Bier on the cemetery. Chairs on the ground. Trees amidst the cemetery. Casket arriving at the gravesite on a caisson drawn by six horses preceded by USN band and squad of USN seamen. The casket is wrapped in United States flag.
Funeral services for Astronauts Lt Col Virgil I Grissom and Lt Roger B Chaffee at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. President comes out of the car. He arrives at the cemetery with the family of the Astronaut. USN pallbearers removing Astronaut Chaffee's casket from caisson and taking it on grave. People gather to pay respect to the Astronaut. Officers saluting. Wreaths on the ground. The casket wrapped in United States flag is placed on the bier. The flag is lifted and held over the casket during eulogy. President meets the family of the Astronaut. They sit on the chair as the ceremony goes on.
Burial of Astronaut Lieutenant Colonel Virgil I. Grissom, United States Air Force, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Funeral attendees stand behind roped off area. Officer stands holding flag over the casket. Flag folding ceremony takes place. Fly over of three F-101's with missing slot. Family of the astronaut sits on the chairs. The casket lowered into the grave. A man stands at head of a grave with head bowed.
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