[1939-1960 NEWSREEL FOOTAGE J. EDGAR HOOVER ELEANOR ROOSEVELT POPE INNOCENT XI ALY KHAN]

Here is a roll of miscellaneous newsreel footage. Segments include:

0:00 1939
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover fingerprints
the Vice President John Nance Garner III while the Director's friend and publicist Walter Winchell watches.

01:00 1949
Young Kathy Fiscus is trapped in a well. Kathryn was a three-year-old girl who died after falling into a well in San Marino, California. The attempted rescue, broadcast live on KTLA, was a landmark event in American television history.

02:52 1943
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt gives speeches at the Cecil Club,
Red Cross Hospital and the White House

05:11 1956
Pope Innocent XI beatified by Pope Pius XII on October 7, 1956. The ceremony took place in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, with Pope Pius XII presiding

06:32 1960 Aly Khan dead at 48. Khan served as Pakistan's ambassador to the United Nations and was the second and third husband of Rita Hayworth. Khan sustained catastrophic head injuries in an automobile accident in Suresnes, France, a suburb of Paris, when the car he was driving collided with another vehicle

07:35 1944
Allied bombing of Monte Cassino,
Italy at the end of WWII

10:20 1947
Texas City Disaster and Fire. The Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, located in Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions.

11:22 1946
Opening meeting of the United Nations
in London

. The United Nations' first General Assembly session convened on January 10, 1946, in London at the Methodist Central Hall. This historic event marked the formal beginning of the UN, with 51 nations represented. Delegates gathered to define the scope and purpose of the newly formed international organization.

13:27 1933
FDR Assassination Attempt. On February 15, 1933, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt survived an assassination attempt in Miami, Florida. Giuseppe Zangara, an Italian immigrant, fired five shots at Roosevelt from close range while the President-elect was giving a speech. While Roosevelt escaped injury, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who was standing nearby, was fatally shot.

14:50 1959
Communists threaten to take over Cuba. In 1959, the rise of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution created significant concern in the United States, as some viewed it as a communist threat and a potential gateway for Soviet influence in the Western Hemisphere.