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Various scenes of kidnapping, FBI investigators in tie shop, FBI car chase criminals, and the Washington National Cathedral

Robbers force a teller into a sedan before driving away from The New Hampshire Bank building at 22-26 Market Square, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Man reads a newspaper (The Portsmouth Herald) headline reads "Teller Kidnaped in Bank Holdup." FBI agents question locals at gas station near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. View of a farm house. Police man helping in ground search gives FBI agents a prize ticket found. Close up of prize ticket. FBI Agent picks up a piece of cardboard from the ground containing tire print. FBI agents extracts a piece of cloth from barbed wire. FBI forensic investigator examines the imprints of tire marking from cardboard. View of textile mill. FBI forensic investigators analyzing cloth from Massachusetts and North Carolina textile mills. FBI forensic investigator examines piece of fabric sent as evidence. A fiber is cut from piece of fabric and added to vial of chemicals. Line of test tubes containing liquid. Signage of Kimball’s, a tie store in Boston (31 Market St, Boston, MA 02135, USA). Signage of various menswear stores in Boston selling neckties. FBI agents speak with shop clerk of tie store in Boston. Shop clerk shows a necktie to FBI agents. FBI agents show shop clerk mugshots to identify a suspect. FBI agents inside car watching building. FBI agents observe a street. FBI agent answers a telephone inside a car. Black car trails behind a convertible on highway and over a bridge. An FBI agent confronts a suspect paying at a toll booth. Black car chases convertible as FBI agent clings to passenger door as the driver attempts to dislodge FBI agent from his car. POV through windshield exiting towards Portsmouth. Convertible car swerves past a truck. Car crash as convertible hits a truck of hay. FBI agent gets up and arrests the driver. Crashed truck in flames. View of the U.S. Department of Justice (950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20530, United States). J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, speaks from his desk. View of an American school. American flag waving. People sitting on stone stairs outside the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC. View of the Washington National Cathedral bell tower in Washington DC (3101 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, United States). View of a church’s bell towers. View of the United States Capitol in Washington DC. Statue from the United States Capitol stairs. “Eternal Vigilance the price of liberty” inscription below statue. “The End”.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1951
Duration: 5 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078870
U.S. President Richard Nixon addresses American citizens on the nation's economy in Washington DC.

U.S. President Nixon addresses the American citizens on the nation's economy in Washington DC. The White House. The President in his office. He talks about the 3 subjects of public interest- jobs, income and cost of living. He briefly discusses the nation's problems and their causes. He introduces a program which deals with these problems. The first step involves the recognition of causes. There exists a transition between the peacetime economy and a wartime economy. Labors and the businessmen prefer the peacetime economy. He states that his government takes the responsibility to cut down the expenditure in order to strongly restrain the current economy. They have also decreased the Federal spendings. He talks about his actions against the inflation. They include- appointing the National Committee on Productivity to check how well the resources are being used, instructing the Counsel of Economic Advisor to prepare a periodic inflation alert and establishing a purchasing and review board to review all the government actions. The President briefly talks about the actions he will take and those which he would not take. He states that at this time the Congress and the President should co-operate each other on common welfare programs. He requests the Congress to help him by passing the legislation related with peoples' jobs and cost of living and to act on the one which have already been submitted by him. He asks the Congress to join him on the way of cutting down the government spendings. He also talks about the significant happenings taking place in the American economy. The President believes that in the next 5 years American consumer will be able to buy 20% more than what he does today. The White House in Washington DC.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1970, June 17
Duration: 26 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056969
U.S. President Richard M Nixon in his State of the Union Message to the Congress speaks about environmental pollution.

President Nixon addresses the congress from the speaker's podium in the U.S. Capitol during his 1970 State of the Union address. He speaks about pollution and damage done to the environment by human race. He talks of the need to make reparations for the damage we have done to our land, air, and water. He notes that this is a particular concern of young people, "because they more than we will reap the grim consequences of our failure to act on programs which are needed now, if we are to prevent disaster later." (Foreshadows global warming.) President Nixon proposes a 10 billion dollar clean water program. Congressmen in the house applaud. He discusses the importance of purchasing and preserving open spaces and park lands. He discusses the need to make automobile emissions cleaner. He talks about pricing goods to cover not only their production but also their disposal without damage to the environment. He asks that citizens consider air and water not as free resources but as scarce resources to be protected. The Joint Chiefs of Staff among the Congressmen listen to the speech. Nixon talks about rural areas becoming less populated with migration to urban city centers. He calls on America to become a pioneer in environmental research and leadership. Vice President Spiro Agnew and the Congress Speaker sit on seats behind podium. Nixon concludes his speech and shakes hands with Speaker and other Congressmen who admire and applaud.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1970, January 22
Duration: 17 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057436
A large crowd of protesters march through streets and arrives at the Washington Monument in Washington DC on the Earth Day.

Civilians gathered for the Earth Day in Washington DC. A large crowd of civilians march through streets and arrives at the Washington Monument. They carry charts which reads 'Earth Day'. Civilians seated in a park. A African American protestor addresses a gathering and speaks into a loudspeaker. Bicycles parked in the background.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1970, April 22
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073314
A Black American addresses civilians gathered at the Washington Monument in Washington DC on the Earth Day.

American citizens gathered for the Earth Day in Washington DC. A large crowd of civilians gathered in a park around the Washington Monument. Trees in the background. People seated in the park. African American man addresses the gathering. Women carry their babies in baby carriers. A woman holds a chart which reads ' Save our Earth'. American flags flutter in wind atop flagpoles.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1970
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073317
Examples of middle-class United States American lifestyle in early 1970s.

Shows early 1970s era construction activities, economic growth, retail shopping, and American fashions and goods of the 1970s. As a contrast to the modern way of life, a farmer is seen using teams of horses to plow his land. Views of middle-class suburban living in the U.S.A. New, modern houses and cars in the suburbs. Construction workers building new homes. Modern farm machinery being employed. Panels being placed on a new car in a factory production line or assembly line. A long freight train moving goods. U.S. consumer retail stores selling a variety of products, and pedestrians in 1970s fashions shopping on town and city streets for various goods including ice cream, lawn mowers and hardware, custom framing, fast food (McDonalds restaurant shown), an "organic food" cafe or store, barbecue grills, outdoor lounge chairs, and antiques, among others. Shipping containers being loaded on a ship for export abroad. Various construction sites ranging from those for suburban neighborhood homes to those for high rise buildings. Construction of the Dunhill Condominiums in progress in Atlanta Georgia. A 1970 Ford Falcon car in a neighborhood of new homes in the suburbs. Sink and bath tub fixtures in a typical kitchen and bathroom. Families at a high school graduation. African American students on a college campus. White students walking on campus of a college or university. Families shopping for high price goods: View of a hand starting a phonograph record player, a man examining a Ford Pinto car in a new car show room, views of home appliances, washers, dryers, stoves, ovens, televisions for sale in a show room, and window air conditioner units. Private pleasure boats operating near a large ferry boat. More views of carpenters and other construction workers and building tradesmen working at construction sites. People at work compiling statistics in the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1974
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070321
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