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Washington DC USA 1943 stock footage and images

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Dignitaries grouped in front of the Wright House and Orville Wright with others at dedication of a memorial in the U.S.

The 40th Anniversary of the Wright brothers first flight in the United States. Conference members grouped in front of the Wright House. Orville Wright surrounded by a group. The group enters the house. Aviator Orville Wright, General Quincy Gillmore and U.S. Army Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds with others enter a Colonel Deed's aircraft "The King Bird" for trip to Washington DC. The aircraft taxis for a take off. Delegates posing in a group in Washington DC. Orville Wright in whose honor the conference was held. United States President John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. and United States Secretary of Commerce William Fairfield Whiting present. The group at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. Orville Wright removes a cover from a stone memorial. Pigeons are released. A plaque commemorating the first successful flight of an airplane.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068451
A policeman’s widow receives award, various scenes of Washington D.C. streets.

Official seal of fictional "UrbanTown" in the United States. In dramatization, an official presents an award for valor to the widow of a police officer with two children. An award "For Merit" in woman’s hand. Dramatized newspaper headline reads, “Slain City Policeman Given Highest Honor”. Aerial view of an American city. 1960s cars honking in traffic jam. Street scenes in Washington, D.C. neighborhoods include old apartment building, smoke and pollution coming from factory chimney. African American pedestrians walking in Washington, D.C. Passengers waiting to board a crowded bus in Washington, D.C. Children playing jump rope in front of a school. African American children play ball in a street in Washington, D.C. A man walks in front of an old police building in Washington, D.C. A police chief reviews policemen standing in formation. Narrator indicates that police officers are often blamed by residents who are frustrated by circumstances of urban living. One of the police officers is an African American man. The other 15 are white men.

Date: 1967
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078769
Police car patrols U-Street corridor in city of Washington, D.C.

A 1966 Ford Galaxie police car driving on U-Street in Washington, D.C. Police officer in passenger seat waves and honks to African American police officer as he passes Ben's Chili Bowl (1213 U St NW, Washington, D.C. 20009). Metropolitan police car turns onto street after passing Chin's Hand Laundry in the U and H Street area of Washington, D.C. African American teenagers sitting on stoop of building watch as police car pulls up in front of them. Close up of African American teenager as he thinks, "he better not start calling me boy." White police officer passes African American teenagers, saying “hi” to them, they say hello back. White police officer making a call from a call box outside Chin's Hand Laundry in the U Street area of Washington, D.C. as African American teenagers look on. Police officer directing a motorist. Police officer on phone. A policeman driving a motorcycle through the urban streets of Washington DC.

Date: 1967
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078773
Detained demonstrators during 1971 May Day Vietnam antiwar protests.

Entrance of Superior Court of the District of Columbia Building A at 515 5th St NW Washington, D.C., DC 20001 . Antiwar demonstrators with their hands on their heads are led out of the police bus into the D.C. jail after their mass arrest during the 1971 May Day Protests in Washington DC against the Vietnam War. Demonstrators at temporary holding area near RFK Stadium look through window of a Hertz truck after mass arrest. Detained protesters shouting from behind 8-ft tall wire fence at an emergency detention center. Metropolitan Police in riot gear guard at the emergency detention center with hippie antiwar protestors. Camera zooms to a detained woman giving “the finger” from behind a chain link fence. More prisoners enter the detention center, with the other detainees inside cheering. Smirking demonstrators after mass arrest. View of the Washington Coliseum sign. Protestors sit inside the Washington Coliseum at 1140 3rd St NE, Washington, D.C., DC 20002 Trashed food on the floor. A man drinking water in front of a metal water jug. Detainees dancing together. Police booking detainees inside coliseum, many who refused to be identified. Photos of arrested on a table.

Date: 1971, May 3
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078916
Aerial views of landmark buildings and areas of Washington DC, USA during the 1950s.

Aerial views of the Washington DC area, including the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial. Potomac River seen. Aerial view flying by the National Mall areas leading to the Capitol Building, including Bureau of Supplies and Accounts buildings; Bureau of Ships buildings; National Museum of Natural History; National Gallery of Art; various Constitution Avenue buildings, the Main Navy Building, the Munitions Building, and Union Station. Fly-by of various city and suburban areas of Washington DC metropolitan area, with many construction projects underway, north and east of the U.S. Capitol.

Date: 1954
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050415
Early trucking business in America. Trucks loaded with milk, fruit and vegetables delivering goods in Washington DC area

Dairy and produce transport by trucks in Washington DC and surrounding areas. A worker at a refrigerated railroad box loads produce of fruit and vegetables onto a W. Chas Heitmuller wholesale company truck in Washington DC. Truck carrying produce moves away from the loading area. Men deliver goods from truck into a Sanitary Grocery Company store in Washington DC (The Sanitary chain was later acquired by Safeway). Men driving trucks carrying livestock. Two African American farm workers load barrels of produce onto a truck on a farm field. A line of trucks from the W.A. Simpson Dairy in Washington DC drives on a rural road transporting Simpson's Milk to the city. A Simpson Milk truck backs into a bay at a home or business in a Washington DC neighborhood for a delivery. View of pneumatic tires on a truck, that ease wear on the roads.

Date: 1932
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036980