Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. SENATOR GOLDWATER (SELECTIONS)

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Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. SENATOR GOLDWATER (SELECTIONS)

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Summary: Coverage of Senator Barry Goldwater's activities as reserve major general. Shows Senator Goldwater introducing Gen. Thomas D. White as speaker at Congressional Reserve meeting, talking to Gen. Thomas Power, touring SAC Headquarters at Offutt AFB and checking out in F-105F and T-39A aircraft. Reel 1: MLS Sen. Goldwater speaking, introducing USAF officers, turning chair over to other officer (January 1961). 170': MS across room as Gen. Thomas D. White enters and walks to stand with Sen. Goldwater. 223': Cu Gen. White speaking. 265': CU Sen. Goldwater talking to USAF Colonel. 287'; CU Gen. White talking--intercut with scenes of members listening. 430': CUs Gen. White talking to Sen. Goldwater and other reservists following speech. 498': CUs Gen. Thomas Power talking to Congressional Reserve Squadron members. 550': Scenes of Sen. Goldwater and party being shown through SAC control and Communications area (April 1961). 687': Scenes of MATS C-131 parking, Sen. Goldwater and party debarking and being greeted by Gen. Power. 768': Total footage in reel. Reel 2: MCU Sen. Goldwater (in two-star flight gear) in ejection seat and cockpit simulator being briefed on flight procedures. 71': CUs Sen. Goldwater boarding rear cockpit of F-105F (August 1963). 182': LSs F-105F taking off, in flight and landing. 260': CU Sen. Goldwater debarking F-105F, talking to pilot and boarding car. 349': CUs Sen. Goldwater examining T-39A, then boarding Aircraft (June 1961). 434': MS T-39A taxiing on flight line, Sen. Goldwater looking out window, then debarking from aircraft. 499': Total footage in reel. Good

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Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998

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Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was an American politician, businessman, and author who was a five-term Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States in 1964. Despite his loss of the 1964 presidential election in a landslide, Goldwater is the politician most often credited with having sparked the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s. He also had a substantial impact on the...

White, Thomas D. (Thomas Dresser), 1901-1965

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Thomas Dresser White (b. Aug. 6, 1901, Walker, Minn.-d. Dec. 22, 1965), U.S. Air Force officer, received his commission in the infantry in 1920. He studied the Chinese language in China from 1927 to 1931, and served as assistant military attaché for air in Moscow and Rome from 1934 to 1937 and military attaché in Brazil from 1940 to 1942. During World War II he served as assistant chief of staff, then chief of staff, 3rd Air Force; assistant chief of staff for intelligence at Army Air Force HQ; ...

Power, Thomas S. (Thomas Sarsfield), 1905-

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Air Force officer. From the description of Reminiscences of Thomas S. Power : oral history, 1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122619630 Thomas Sarsfield Power (1905-1970 was an American military officer who served as both Vice-Commander and Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Air Command. Born on June 18, 1905 in New York City, he graduated from Barnard School for Boys and entered the Air Corps flying school in 1928, receiving his commission as a second lieut...