| Havoc In Midwest: President Visits Disaster Areas | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1734 |
| Catalog #: | 426605 | |
| Clip Number: | 426605-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 038-031-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:40:24 - 00:43:36 | |
| Location: | United States | |
| Year Shot: | 1965 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISASTERS: Damage / Aftermath DISASTERS: Floods DISASTERS: Survivors DISASTERS: Tornado LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Midwest PERSONALITIES: Johnson, Lyndon Baines (LBJ) | |
| Description: | The President tours the tornado-devastated areas of Ohio, Michigan and Indiana and sees scenes of desolation from the Presidential plane. He drives from South Bend, Ind., to Goshen and Dunlap, center of the worst damage. He says the scenes are "destruction the likes of which I have never seen before in all my life". He declares the tornado-struck states disaster areas, opening the way for quick Federal aid. Later he flies on to Minnesota and sees the swollen Mississippi as a raging flood crest bears down on St. Paul. It is the worst flood of a century with 20,000 persons forced to flee their homes. Aerial shot of a devastated area where once people used to live. Aerial shot - The sight you see looks like a pile of broken up wood and plaster, there is no way you can tell that houses once stood there. Aerial shot - Mobile home park, one section is completely ruined where the other half of the mobile park is still standing. A mobile home laying on its side. A lop-sided mobile home that look's like its going to fall. Total destruction of homes. President Johnson walking among the ruins of the tornado aftermath, looking in horror. Complete destruction of a home. Camera panning - Mass of broken up wood, dry wall, wheels, frames of trailers, two men standing on the second floor of their home with no roof and trees up-rooted. A house completely ripped off its foundation, car upside-down in the mass of a destroyed house. President Johnson is walking on the debris of once was a Baptist Church. CU A page of sheet music. President Johnson, his entourage and the press. CU - President Johnson. People consoling each other of the devastation they suffered. Aerial shot - The Presidential plane in route to other hard hit areas hit by nature. Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota ravaged by floods, in the distance you can see the roof top of a house. President Johnson wearing a trench coat a hat. The President buttoning the top button of his trench coat talking with a police officer. Thousands of sand bags stacked up to help keep out the flooding Mississippi River. Stacked up sand bags with the water forcing its way through. Railroad tracks washed away. | |
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