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Hand-Walker
"In Germany, Lucky Hofmaier starts a long walk, from Regensburg to Rome, a distance of 683 miles. It's an especially long walk if you do it on your hands as Lucky does! It's the result of a bet and distance walker Hofmaier thinks he'll average 18 miles a day and make it to Rome in about 38 days. Hands down! MS - LUCKY HOFMAIER donning gloves on street before stunt, surrounded by press and spectators. Nice side view MS - Newsreel cameraman shooting Lucky with small Arri 35mm film camera. MS - Lucky doing handstand, then walking on his hands. MS - Traffic cop directing traffic; once the street is clear, Lucky crosses the street on his hands, large crowd walking on their god-given feet beside him. TLS/MSs - Lucky walking on his hands through streets.
Tornadoes: 52 Dead as Twisters Rip Illinois Towns
"At least 52 people killed, thousands injured as 18 tornadoes rip through Illinois with no advance warning. A Chicago suburb, Oak Lawn and Belvidere, a farming town nearby, are the hardest hit. Homes, busses, buildings all crumble before the 500 foot high, half-mile wide funnel. Many people are still missing, believed buried under debris Panning LS - Devastated building. TLS - Fireman leaning from ruined wall of wrecked building. LS - National Guardsmen & local police standing amidst destruction. Panning MS - Three National Guard soldiers marching by cam with shoulder bound M1 rifles & affixed bayonets. TLS/MSs - Destroyed homes. Panning MS - Elderly man walking through remnants of home, trying salvage some clothes. TLS - Debris outside house. TLS - Older woman gathering belongings in debris. LSs - Wrecked Catholic school in Oak Lawn, roof torn off, one show with two nuns in FG, their backs to cam. TLS - Destroyed bus smashed against house. TLSs -School buses stacked on street. TLS/MSs - Destroyed houses, buildings, cars. Panning TLS - People standing in waiting room of hospital. MS- Two nurses taking wounded man on gurney to elevator in hospital.
July 29, 1994 - Part 1
(10:08:29) Now, it's our duty as Members of this Committee to be faithful to the Committee's and the Senate's instruction to us. As Chairman, it is my responsibility, together with my Ranking Member, Senator D'Amato, to be certain that each of us adheres to the scope of the inquiry by Senate Resolution 229 so we don't jeopardize Mr. Fiske's investigation and I ask for the cooperation of every Member in that regard. As Chairman of the Committee for the past 6 years, I have sought the greatest possible degree of bipartisan cooperation, During this current inquiry, Senator D'Amato and I have worked cooperatively in every step to resolve various differences as they have arisen. Should additional disputes arise, the Committee will act, of course, to resolve them. I will protect the right of each Senator, just as I must, and will protect the integrity of our Committee's work effort. I ask that each Member understand my commitment to see that the time is accorded fairly to both sides and that the individual time allotments are respected and adhered to, it will be my responsibility to see that an or our questions fit within our scope requirements and not move across into the restricted area of Mr. Fiske's ongoing investigation, and I ask each Member to exercise great care in this regard. In my view, the primary function of these public hearings is to get the facts out to the American people so that they may evaluate this matter for themselves. That cannot be accomplished in one day or by an individual witness or by some seeming revelation. We need to weigh all the facts and hear the testimony from all the witnesses. So I would encourage my colleagues and the public to withhold final judgment until all the information has been presented and the bearing record is complete. This will take several days, and will require sorting out and evaluating contradictory accounts by various witnesses. After we have beard and evaluated the evidence, Senate Resolution 229 requires that we consider and determine whether there was improper conduct with respect to contacts between the White House and officials at Treasury and RTC. Now, Mr. Fiske for his part-and this is important-has concentrated on whether there was any criminal conduct. His investigation, and I quote from the statement Mr. Fiske made directly: Focused on whether in the course of any of these contacts any individual ob. structed justice, attempted to obstruct justice, or conspired with others to obstruct justice. Quoting further from Mr. Fiske's report, and this is his conclusion: After review of all the evidence, we have concluded that the evidence is insufficient to establish that anyone within the White House or the Department of Treasury acted with the intent to corruptly influence an RTC investigation. Therefor This is all his quotation and his summary: Therefore the evidence of the events surrounding the contacts between the White House and the Treasury Department does not justify the prosecution of anyone for a violation of 1505, which is the criminal law obstruction of justice provision. We have also concluded that the evidence does not justify a criminal prosecution or violation of any other Federal statute. One more quotation from his summary. Mr. Fiske said: In reaching this conclusion, this office is not determining anything other than that the evidence does not justify a criminal prosecution. We express no opinion on the propriety of these meetings or whether anything that occurred at these meetings constitutes a breach of ethical rules or standards. As Mr. Fiske then restricted his review to only possible violations of criminal law statutes, this Committee has been instructed by the Senate to apply a different standard and to determine whether there was "improper conduct" with respect to any of these contacts which could include such things as the inappropriate sharing of confidential information, preferential treatment, and the appearance of impropriety.
Summit Conference
The picturesque Uruguayan resort town of Puenta Del Este will be the meeting place for the North and South American nation s summit conference. The entire town prepares for the visiting dignitaries. A rambling white brick cut rock house will be LBJ's White House. High angle LS Downtown Puenta del Este. Locals walking along sidewalk in commercial district. Panning window display of national emblems of participating countries. Exterior of the house where President Lyndon Johnson will be staying. Panning display of each of the country's emblems that are in attendance of the Summit Conference. Family of three riding a scooter. The son sits on the father's lap as the mother holds onto the father from behind. TLS Downtown traffic scene, small rounded cars driving toward cam.
Moon Shot: Surveyor Proves Surface Firm
"Surveyor III makes the first soft-landing on the moon and proves the lunar surface is firm enough to support great weights. A space shovel digs into moon soil, and finds it much like coarse damp beach sand. Next stop: America's first Man-On-The-Moon! TLS/MSs - Reporters & guests gathered for press conference at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. CU - Model of earth's moon, dolly in quickly. CU -Television screen relaying feed from Surveyor. TLS/MSs - Model of Surveyor lunar robot digging dirt; MS - Man at remote control; CU SM/SS - Mechanism Control. MS - Guests standing, smiling, applauding.
Kentucky Derby Preview
Two thrilling horserace s, one in California and one in New York, set the tempo for what could be a thrilling Kentucky Derby this year. At Albany, California, "Tragniew" wins the $75,000 added California Derby. At New York's Aqueduct track, a so-called "problem" colt, "Amberoid" comes from the rear of the pack to sweep across the line, a two length distance winner. At Albany California the horses are lined up at the gate, the bell is rung and their off and running. High Angle Shot - As the horses pound it in for the home stretch, Tragniew rode by Don Pierce and Tragniew on the inside wins the race. New York's Aqueduct: New York's Aqueduct Wood Memorial gets off to a good start. CU - Horse racing fans . High Angle Shot - A problem colt named Amberoid was way back in the pack and he ran around from the outside and he wins the race.
Honor Handicapped: Awards And Athletics At Annual Meeting
In the nation's Capital, Vice-President Humphrey awards the President's trophy for "Handicapped American of the Year" to Robert Smithdas of Brooklyn, New York. It's the annual meeting of the President's Committee on employment of the handicapped and a unique opportunity for a display of wheelchair athletics to prove the handicapped can lead active, productive lives. Employment of the Handicapped holds its annual meeting. People seated in the front of the audience in their wheelchairs. Vice President Humphrey awarding the President's trophy award of the year to Robert Smithdas. Robert Smithdas is both deaf and blind so he holds his thumb and other fingers up to Vice President Humphrey mouth so he can read his lips. Audience applauding. They shake hands as he is handed the award. People in wheel chairs holding bows and arrows shoot at targets. A man in a wheel chair throws a shot putt ball on a mat. People applauding. There is a wheel chair relay race. All the athletes sport U.S.A tee shirts.
July 29, 1994 - Part 1
(10:16:38) OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR ALFONSE M. DAMATO Senator D'AMATO Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, 2 years ago, the American people first heard of an Arkansas company called Whitewater; of an Arkansas savings and loan called Madison; and of the mysterious web of relationships surrounding Arkansas Governor Bill I Clinton. When Mr. Clinton came to the White House, the Whitewater cloud trailed behind him. Now, regrettably the White House has sacrificed the proper administration of justice on the altar of Whitewater. This Committee has learned, and the American people will see, that the White House has concealed, disguised, and distorted the truth, all in the service of politics and the President's self-preservation. To these ends, this Presidency has taken advantage of confidential agency information, To these ends, this Presidency has fought to keep control of an investigation affecting the President personally. To these ends, high officials of this Presidency have deceived this very Committee, or have countenanced that deception. The New York Times observed earlier this week, the central question for these hearings is a question posed by the Senate 20 years ago: "Whether people in positions of public trust manipulated the machinery of Government to deflect the truth." Mr. Chairman, I'm sorry to say that even now the Committee has not been given the necessary authority and latitude to examine the facts of Whitewater and Madison Savings & Loan-the facts that some have worked so desperately to bide. But we have learned some important things. We know that the RTC was examining Madison Savings & Loan in 1992, and made a criminal referral to the Department of Justice in the fall of that year. We know that in the fall of 1993, the RTC sent nine more Madison criminal referrals to the Department of Justice. And we know that the RTC was investigating whether to bring a civil case involving Madison, Whitewater, and the Clintons. Most important, in mid-February of this year, we knew that the statute of limitations on the civil case against Madison was scheduled to run out on February 28, 1994. Had the limitations period expired as scheduled, the Clintons and their partners in Madison would have been home free--beyond the reach of the civil law. Mr. Chairman, I first requested Committee hearings into the RTC's investigation of Madison last December. Each day closer to February 28 was a day the Clintons were closer to escaping an RTC case against Madison. Then at the last minute, to the complete surprise of the White House, Congress voted overwhelmingly to extend the statute of limitations. The White House strategy was thwarted. What will these hearings show? As early as the spring of 1993, Roger Altman, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and acting head of the RTC, was keenly focused on the issue of Madison and Whitewater. As soon as Mr. Altman was informed in September that the RTC criminal referrals might be forwarded to the Justice Department, he directed his subordinate, Treasury General Counsel Jean Hanson, to disclose that fact to the White House Counsel Bernie Nussbaum. White House Counsel Nussbaum and Treasury Counsel Hanson agreed to create a channel through which multiple further communications on Whitewater would flow. The information Altman and Hanson revealed to Nussbaum, and through him to the rest of the White House in September 1993, was highly confidential and involved criminal referrals that bad not yet even reached the Department of Justice. This was sensitive information which may not be revealed under the RTCs own rules, because of the danger that such a disclosure may alert possible subjects or witnesses and frustrate a criminal case. What's the justification offered for this gross breach of trust? Time and time again, the American people will bear witnesses try to excuse this behavior by claiming that they thought press leaks might occur in the future. Nonsense. Mr. Chairman, there's no "spin control" exception to the RTC rules of secrecy. Mr. Cutler told the House Banking Committee earlier this week that there was no ethical breach in the disclosure of the confidential criminal referrals to the White House, because as far as he could determine, no White House official took improper action based on tills nonpublic information. It is absurd to say that we must rely oil White House assurances that this confidential information was not misused by the White House itself. In January 1994, the Clinton Administration was dragged kicking and screaming into agreeing to having Attorney General Reno appoint a Special Prosecutor, Now we know, through Roger Altman's diary, the Administration was frustrated because they couldn't arm-twist the Attorney General to limit the scope of that prosecutor's investigation. In the words of Mrs. Clinton's own Chief of Staff, the First Lady "doesn't want the Counsel poking into 20 years of public life in Arkansas." Why were they so afraid? What did they want to hide?
Churches, cathedrals, mission
California missions
California mission - priest walking
Churches in L.A.
ON PREVIEW CASSETTE #98464 L.A. in 1940's
Famous Theaters Day
Night Signs
ON PREVIEW CASSETTE 95519 Night signs
Old Hollywood
ON PREVIEW CASSETTE 220167 Old Hollywood, Palm trees, Cafe de Paris
Seafood Market
Seafood Market GVs Woman with umbrella walking below canopy for "Vallera's Cafe - Dilusso Seafood Grotto".
Street Signs - Hollywood
Street sign (Hollywood & Vine)
Hollywood
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Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills homes with pools (aerial)
Hollywood
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Cottontail rabbit eating
Master 2138, Tape 1 CU Cottontail Rabbit (Sylvilagus sp.) sitting in grass. The rabbit eats grass. The veins in rabbit's ears are visible.
July 29, 1994 - Part 1
(10:21:48) The evidence will show that at the beginning of this year, the White House was "paralyzed" by Whitewater. "Paralyzed" is not my word. It's the word of Mrs, Clinton's Chief of Staff, as she warned Roger Altman around the New Year that Whitewater threatened to bring Administration initiatives to a halt. It's a message which rang . Roger Altman's cars in January as he confronted yet another investigation into Madison and Whitewaterthe RTC's investigation centering on a possible civil case, Mr. Chairman, in January, the RTC was faced with three choices on Madison and the Clintons: The RTC could file a case by February 28; it could seek a so- called tolling agreement from the private parties, including the Clintons, that would extend the limitations deadline into the future; or it could let the limitations period expire without any case being filed. On January 11 and January 25, several colleagues and I wrote to Mr. Altman urging him, to take appropriate steps to preserve the ' rights by seeking voluntary tolling agreements from all taxpayers I private parties. We insisted that a decision be made before the statute of limitations expired, But the problem was the final decisionmaker, Roger Altman. Altman should have recused himself-removed himself entirely from the Madison case-because of his personal and political relationships with the Clintons. Many Members of Congress thought so. The General Counsel of the RTC thought so, Members of Altman's own staff thought so. Jean Hanson, the General Counsel of Treasury, actually told him so. And the Treasury Secretary himself, Lloyd Bentsen, agreed. But, Mr. Chairman, there was a more compelling reason. Roger Altman knew that his impartiality was fatally compromised when Mrs. Clinton's Chief of Staff unmistakably informed him that the First Lady urgently wanted the Whitewater problem to be "solved." The picture is this: As he approaches the deadline for decision in the highly publicized Whitewater investigation affecting his friends and patrons, the President and the First Lady, Roger Altman, the decisionmaker, is told that the First Lady desperately wants the paralysis of Whitewater to end. Is there any doubt that Mr. Altman labored under an intense and clear and actual conflict of interest? The evidence will show that Mr. Altman understood this actual conflict of interest. He and his Treasury colleagues discussed the fact that filing, suit against the Clintons would be awkward. Mr. Altman's inclination going into the February 2 meeting at the White House was to, in fact, remove himself entirely from the case. Why did he change his mind? As Mr. Cutler himself has admitted, strong comments by White House personnel in this meeting "may have influenced Mr. Altman's decision on February 3 to defer recusal." That's an understatement. As Altman's former aide and Treasury Chief of Staff, Josh Steiner, put it in his diary-a diary written not to prepare for public testimony but at the time of events, when there's no motive to lie-Altman was under "intense pressure" from the White House. Sworn testimony from several witnesses establishes beyond a doubt that the reason the White House urged Altman to stay on the case was the fear that the RTC General Counsel who would take over the decision would be too "tough" on the Clintons. Mr. Altman told those assembled at the White House on February 2 that he would sleep on the recusal decision. He must have had a restless night because even now the full picture of the pressure placed on Altman has not emerged. But we do know from sworn testimony that Altman reversed himself to keep the White House-to use his word---"happy." What are we to make of this? Mr. Cutler concedes-as he mustthat the White House should not have influenced the recusal decision. But he argues "no harm, no foul," because in the end Altman was never faced with the need to participate in a decision about whether or not to bring an RTC case against Madison. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Cutler well knows that the only reason that the White House plan to have Mr. Altman control the decision did not succeed was congressional action unforeseen by the White House on February 2. Because it wasn't until February 11 that Congress gave the RTC Madison investigation a new lease on life when we extended the statute of limitations until the end of 1995. 1 have no doubt that if the unexpected congressional extension had not occurred, the White House effort would have triumphed. But there's an even more important fact-a crucial fact-about the February 2 White House meeting that has not been disclosed until now. This fact demolishes the Cutler conclusion that these White House meetings are forgivable. It is not true, as Mr. Cutler said, that Altman merely imparted public information to the White House. Sworn testimony by Deputy White House Chief of Staff, Harold Ickes, establishes that at the February 2 meeting Altman revealed more than legal procedure: Ickes testifies that he asked Altman about "the progress of the inquiry being conducted by the RTC." Ickes further testifies that Altman answered by telling the White House: "That it was his view, based on information from his sources-and I assumed one of them was the General Counsel of the RTC-that the investigation was going to take a longer period of time to conclude." According to Ickes, Altman said that it was: "Unlikely that the investigation could be completed and a recommendation made by 8 the General Counsel prior to the expiration of the statute of limitations."
Cottontail rabbit scratching
Master 2138, Tape 1 MS Cottontail Rabbit (Sylvilagus sp.) sitting and eating grass. The rabbit scratches behind his face with his hind leg. The rabbit continues eating grass. The rabbit scratches behind his ears. The rabbit eats grass.