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Artist-reporter Franklin McMahon discusses his work and the inspirations and interests that lead him to cover particular people and events. This pa...

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 Franklin McMahon artist report about the political scene of 1968, including the death of Martin Luther King Jr., the presidential campaign and th...

A segment of a CBS evening news program with host Walter Cronkite, who introduces McMahon's artist report of the 1972 Democratic Convention.

Covers events surrounding the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1968. It begins with scenes before the convention, including footage of Mayor Dal...

A silent, black-and-white “travelogue” of the 1988 and 1992 Presidential campaigns.

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.

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

A speech by President Dwight Eisenhower.

Charles Percy speaks at a press conference at the Republican National Convention, July 25-28, 1960 in Chicago.

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