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Go to HomepageReel Number: 250086-12
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1952
Country: USA
Location: Abilene,Kansas
TC Begins: 02:50:10
TC Ends: 02:58:21
Duration: 00:08:11
1952 - Americana: Eisenhower Presidential Campaign Activities We Like Ike banner across street, straw hat w/ I Like Ike put on young boy; I Like Ike pennants at street vendor stand. 02:50:45 Brief shots: small town parade in rain for Eisenhower; corner stone laying; speaking; floats; crowds; products; stores w/ window displays for Ike. Eisenhower home. 02:52:31 Billboard: Welcome to Abilene. Family home of Gen. ‘Ike’ Eisenhower. MCUs people sitting, waiting, listening on lawns. Loudspeakers. 02:53:42 Santa Fe streamliner passenger train arriving to crowded station platform; MS Ike & Mamie off train & thru crowd to speakers stand. Waves to crowd & covers a time capsule for Eisenhower Foundation founded, 1945. 02:55:15 Signs for Ike; people on top of buildings. Parade floats, Ike home shots; crowd watching; off train. To speakers stand; covering capsule. Politics; Presidential Elections; Campaigning; Republican Party; Folksy; More material of same trip & location on 250086-13.