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Second of four reels adding up to the film Chicago Politics: A Theater of Power. 
Observational documentary following the 1983 Chicago Mayora...

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 ...

Highlights from the 1956 Democratic Convention, held in the International Amphitheatre on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois August 13–August 17, ...

This film features Richard Nixon's speech delivered at the VFW convention in Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan on August 24, 1960.

The film provides footage of an interview with former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson in 1960.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. gives a speech in 1960.

A speech by President Dwight Eisenhower.

This film features excerpts of vice-presidential candidate Henry Cabot Lodge’s remarks to the press in Milwaukee on October 21, 1960.

This film includes excerpts from the 1956 Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention.

Léopold Sédar Senghor, President of the Republic of Senegal, visits Washington, D.C. on November 3, 1961.

Vice President Richard Nixon and Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy cross paths on a campaign stop at Chicago Midway Airport on June 19, 1959. A...;Telenews newsreel about Vice President Richard Nixon and Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy crossing paths on a campaign stop at Chicago Midway ...

Silent newsreel footage of Vice President Alben Barkley's funeral in Paducah, KY.