A Franklin McMahon artist report about the political scene of 1968, including the death of Martin Luther King Jr., the presidential campaign and th...
An artist report by Franklin McMahon of the 1968 Republican, or GOP, National Convention, which took place in Miami, Florida that year, and the 196...
A short film based on the Homestead Plot; an assassination attempt helmed by anarchist Emma Goldman and her collaborators - also lovers - fellow po...
The first of three parts of Franklin McMahon's artist report on the political scene of 1968, or "one artists look at America in this polit...
A short film depicting the white supremacist ideology of the National Socialist Party of America and its former leader, Frank Collin. The film adop...
Columbia College student film about a young man receiving and responding to his Vietnam draft card. The film is part of a series of student films t...
University of Illinois Chicago (UICC) animated student film about being drafted to the Vietnam War. The film is part of a series of student films t...
Coverage of the ceremony and inauguration of President Harry S. Truman from start to finish, beginning with the journey from the White House to the...
Endorsement advertisement for Republican politician Bernard Carey.
This is a kinescope of a episode of an arts program “Facet”, produced by Chicago’s PBS station, WTTW. This episode is a play acted out in the sati...
Footage captures the massive crowds gathered outside the capitol in Washington D.C. during the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union Frol R. Kozlov visits the Midwest in 1959.
The film captures the arrival of Republican delegates at the San Francisco airport before attending the Republican National Convention in August 1956.
Silent newsreel footage of highlights from the 1956 Democratic National Convention, held in the International Amphitheatre on the South Side of Chi...
Kentucky Governor Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler Sr. is interviewed at the 1956 Democratic Convention, held at the International Amphitheatre on ...