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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.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1967
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078769
The United States and Japan sign the 1960 U.S. – Japan Security Treaty in Washington DC.

The U.S. – Japan Security Treaty (Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan) is signed in Washington DC, United States. View of the White House in Washington DC. President Dwight D. Eisenhower escorts Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi to the East Room of the White House. Photographers taking photos of Eisenhower and Kishi. President Eisenhower speaks to the media. “This treaty represents the fulfillment of the goal set by Prime Minister Kishi and myself in June of 1957 to establish an indestructible partnership between our two countries in which our relations would be based on complete equality and mutual understanding. The treaty likewise reflects the closeness and breadth of our relations in the political and economic as well as security fields.” President Eisenhower said. Prime Minister Kishi signs the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between Japan and the United States. Japanese official stands behind Prime Minister Kishi. United States Secretary of State Christian Herter signs the same treaty. President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Kishi shake hands after the signing of the 1960 U.S. – Japan Security Treaty.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1960, January 19
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080225
U.S. Census-1960 presented by Department of Commerce, Washington DC.

People watch results of U.S. Census,1960 presented on an electric population chart in the Department of Commerce,Washington DC, showing constant growth in population. The description about what various colors of the light stand for is given in the index, at the side of the chart. Professor Philip Hauser (Director,Population Research and Training Center, University of Chicago) makes a presentation of the census report. George Stone asks questions to him. View of men and women workers walking on a sidewalk in an urban area, bound to or from work and jobs. Construction of roads and highways shown in progress. A suburban neighborhood under construction with houses being built. In a classroom, a boy student solves a sum on the blackboard as the teacher stands next to him. Men at work on a construction site building a house. Cars at gasoline service station with sign "Sinclair". Gas station workers clean windshields and fuel cars. Traffic moves on a divided highway filled with 1950s cars and various automobiles. A train passes by on a platform of a metro or subway system. New office construction sites and new garden apartment (low rise apartments) are seen under construction.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1960
Duration: 3 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023753
Civil rights demonstrations, racial tensions, and school integration in America in the early 1960's.

African American men and women carry signs and demonstrate for equal rights outside a restaurant or store in the United States for civil rights. Jesse Jackson leads crowd in his "I am somebody" chant. A sign in the gathered crowd reads, "Jesse Jackson Black Jesus". Views of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28 1963, highlighting civil rights issues for African Americans. Next scene is during the Selma to Montgomery march and shows Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King marching next to James Michael Letherer (Jim Letherer) of Saginaw, Michigan. (Letherer, who lost his right leg to cancer as a child, did the entire march on crutches.) Next scene shows African American people as they riot and flip over a car during racial riots. A building burns during race riots. Ernest Green talks to others at the headquarters for the Apprenticeship Program of the Workers Defense League, funded by the A. Philip Randolph Education Fund. A white man enters a voting booth. White and black people at a polling place. Narrator says that African American voting is increasing in America. Images of of Mayor Carl Stokes,a black political leader in Cleveland, Ohio; Jesse Jackson, Preacher; and Ernest Green (Ernie Green), Youth Organizer and Executive. View of grounds of the Washington and Lincoln Memorial teeming with protestors against inequality and segregation during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. View of United States Supreme Court building and point of view shot as camera approaches interior chamber of the Supreme Court. Black students outside a school. Exterior view of John Philip Sousa Junior High School in Washington DC shows integrated student body. View of white students demonstrating against integration at Little Rock. Interior view of integrated elementary school classroom with both white and black children. Curb side sit-in demonstration in a southern city. Picketing demonstrators outside the S&W Cafeteria hold signs that read, "Christian Morality Condemns Segregation" and "All Men are Created Equal." African American demonstrators at the lunch counter of the S&W Cafeteria are served a meal by the waitress, along side white patrons at the lunch counter. View of a swimming pool that has been closed by a municipality rather than allow integration.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1963
Duration: 4 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029511
Highlights of Washington DC International Stakes Horse race, in Laurel Park, Maryland, 1960

The American flag flutters, along with several foreign national flags, at the Laurel Park race course in Maryland. Horses run along the track. Highlights of the Washington DC International Stakes. 1960 winner, Bald Eagle, was the only repeat winner of the race, and was Champion Handicap Horse that year.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1960
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675057784
Protestors against the Vietnam War during 1971 May Day rally in Washington DC; police arrest demonstrators.

Scenes from May 1, 1970 Mayday anti-war rally in Washington DC, by civil disobedience groups organized against the Vietnam War, including the National Peace Action Coalition. Ground level view of U.S. Capitol building as seen from National Mall. Views among 3000 protestors gathered on the steps and grounds of the U.S. Capitol, described as radicals by the narrator. Crowd cheering and yelling and displaying signs. A hippie man in top hat displays a rude finger gesture to the camera and yells. He appears to be holding a hand rolled joint or cigarette. Protestors, some shirtless, dance, sway, and yell in scenes of general chaos. A protestor with a vulgar word painted on his forehead. View of police in riot gear helmets with shields as they watch the crowd. Close-up views of faces of demonstrators on U.S. Capitol steps. Police begin to forcibly pick up and drag away protestors who have been ordered to disperse. Protestors stay limp and heavy making it difficult and slow for police to remove them and arrest them. View of a peace demonstrator carrying a young child with a painted forehead. Police load arrested protestors into a bus. Police officer crushes small white disks into powder on ground outside bus. Scenes after the protest of routine traffic of cars, taxi cabs, and pedestrians on streets of Washington DC in National Mall area, including Pennsylvania Avenue, and near various federal buildings. Citizens in 1970s fashions crossing the street. 1960s and 1970s cars on the roads. View of office workers and pedestrians on sidewalk in Washington DC going to or from work. A small protest gathering in the distance behind the workers. View of protestors gathered and assembling. Assorted views of police officers near a crowd of demonstrators. Police drag a protestor down the steps of a federal building. The protestor nods her head and shows peace signs with both hands as she is hauled away.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1971, May 1
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078918
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