Dwight Eisenhower attends homecoming celebrations in Abilene, Kansas

Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower is slowly escorted through a large crowd with most men wearing light-colored hats / The people applaud as Eisenhower arrives at the podium / He trowels mortar at the cornerstone of his future museum as numerous photographers look on / Man with hat "Ike, Native-Born Texan" with pan up to Ike placard / Line of young men perched on a roof and a man with a camera on a tripod // VS a horse leads marching veterans in a color guard that pass the camera, "'Ike's' Home Town band" banner; women in long gowns on a float ("Abilene Implement Dealers"); people in 'pioneer' costumes and a grinning unformed man holding up a cardboard 'train station' on the bouncing float; "Lincoln School" with children at desk and a schoolmarm looking on; the floats move away towards threatening skies / Young women in "I like Ike" hats / Men on float, "Ike High School Football team 1904-1909" / Cute little boy and girl / People walk with "I like Ike" letters and majorettes strutting past / A float with poised batter, "Ike's Baseball Team" / Kids with Ike t-shirts / A suited man holding a suitcase stands next to a cannon on "West Point Appointment 1911" float
Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower is slowly escorted through a large crowd with most men wearing light-colored hats / The people applaud as Eisenhower arrives at the podium / He trowels mortar at the cornerstone of his future museum as numerous photographers look on / Man with hat "Ike, Native-Born Texan" with pan up to Ike placard / Line of young men perched on a roof and a man with a camera on a tripod // VS a horse leads marching veterans in a color guard that pass the camera, "'Ike's' Home Town band" banner; women in long gowns on a float ("Abilene Implement Dealers"); people in 'pioneer' costumes and a grinning unformed man holding up a cardboard 'train station' on the bouncing float; "Lincoln School" with children at desk and a schoolmarm looking on; the floats move away towards threatening skies / Young women in "I like Ike" hats / Men on float, "Ike High School Football team 1904-1909" / Cute little boy and girl / People walk with "I like Ike" letters and majorettes strutting past / A float with poised batter, "Ike's Baseball Team" / Kids with Ike t-shirts / A suited man holding a suitcase stands next to a cannon on "West Point Appointment 1911" float
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Editorial #:
1070560242
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
June 04, 1952
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released. More information
Clip length:
00:02:50:02
Location:
Abilene, Kansas, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr003240_01_04.mov