A Japanese prison camp at Urawa in Saitama, Japan towards the end of World War II. A Japanese military personnel near a muddy street in a village. U.S. officers and the Japanese military personnel enter the main gates of a prison building. American prisoners wave from the balcony of a building as they see U.S. officers arriving. A Japanese prison guard. Interiors of a washroom in the prison camp. A hole in the building where a U.S. Army Air Force B-29 Superfortress bomber dropped a food package. A Japanese police guard. A flag flies from the top of the building. Police officers getting prison bundles together.
A training film based on the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Aerial view of the FBI Academy. Federal law enforcement officers or students attending a training class and listening to an FBI agent instructor speaking. Officers are made to watch a film in an amphitheater classroom. The film depicts Fairfax County police officers arriving in a police car and speaking to a man after they have heard reports of a prowler in the area. The film is paused and a question is posted on a TV screen for the students to answer regarding whether the man can be detained or arrested. Electronic response system shows the students pressing buttons on their tables. A screen highlights the students giving the incorrect answers. The instructor speaks to the students.
New York City motorcycle policemen gathered on a city street in readiness to escort Harry S. Truman upon his first official visit to the city as President. He is seen riding in an open car, accompanied by Secret Service agents and several U.S. Naval officers. New Yorkers line the sidewalks to catch a glimpse of the President. Workers, of the 32nd Street Western Cafeteria, line the sidewalk in front of their restaurant in the Chelsea neighborhood. The Presidential motorcade crossing the Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn, and then turning into the gate of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Sailors lining the Navy Yard roadway presenting arms. Military personnel, yard workers and others fill the Navy yard. The President's flag hoisted on the USS Franklin D Roosevelt. Hundreds of Navy officers and sailors all in white hats, salute in unison. All sit to listen to President Truman's remarks. Scene shifts back to the streets of Manhattan, as policemen control spectators lining the sidewalks. Brief view from a car moving along the path of the motorcade.
During the Great Depression, unemployed people struggling to get jobs in New York City, United States. A large number of men and women lined up outside buildings. 5000 people arrive in unemployment line for 100 jobs. Women in a separate area filling out forms. Close up of elderly man looking for work. Police contain the crowd on horseback. A man who attempted to cut in line is apprehended by a police man.
Civilians and refugees flee bombing in France during World War II Battle of France. Buildings set on fire due to bombardment by Nazi German aircraft. Heavy columns of smoke rises up from the fire in homes and buildings. Dead body of a woman on a litter on a street. Rubble of a church destroyed by bombing. Belgian refugees walk along a road with their personal belongings on carts, and take cover in a ditch beside the road as they are subject to bombing and strafing from the air. Damaged buildings in the area. French soldiers and French police officers walking in busy city area and questioning civilians on street and in an outdoor cafe, asking to see their papers, and trying to find and root out an "5th column" elements or those working for the enemy. Motorcycle police pull over a car and demand papers from the driver.
Soldiers present after riots in Washington DC, United States following death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.. A firefighting van on a street. A fire fighter climbs up a ladder to the top of a building. He climbs down. Soldiers near a jeep as one of them speaks over a radio. A jeep parked outside a police station. Civil and military police talk over phone.
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