Hip Hughes History
The 1916 Election Explained
A HipHughes hop-scotch across the spirited electoral contest of 1916 between President Woodrow Wilson and Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes.
Professor Dave Explains
Warren G. Harding: Posthumous Scandal (1921 - 1923)
Warren Harding was the 6th president to die while in office. He was well-liked during his term, but after his death, news began to materialize regarding widespread corruption in his cabinet, and this has sullied his reputation quite a...
The March of Time
MOT: 1916: Republican Hughes to run for President
Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes walking in residential neighborhood, sitting in chair.
Professor Dave Explains
Woodrow Wilson: A World War and a League of Nations (1913 - 1921)
Woodrow Wilson was president during a time when a lot was changing in the world. World War I broke out, and as hard as he tried to keep America out of it, it was inevitable that it enter the action, only to emerge as the world's premiere...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
President Woodrow Wilson votes in election of 1916
Woodrow Wilson, wearing newsboy cap, exits car, greets man, enters polling place; he exits, tips hat, and enters car // Charles Evans Hughes walks on sidewalk with others, poses and tips hat
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Views of third inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pres. Franklin Roosevelt giving inaugural address at outdoor podium (Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes at lower left, FDR's son James Roosevelt at right) / VS wide views of platform; view from behind podium of crowd
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry Wallace takes oaths of office in 1941
Henry Wallace takes VP oath of office from John Nance Garner (Franklin Roosevelt stands with son James Roosevelt behind) / Pres. Roosevelt takes oath from Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Official Washington attends memorial service for King George V
Diplomats and wives wait for cars following service in National Cathedral / WS and LS National Cathedral through trees / British diplomats awaiting cars under awning on EXT Cathedral / car pulls up to waiting diplomats / draped in cloak,...
Hearst Metrotone News
Franklin D. Roosevelt takes the oath of office from Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes.
Franklin D. Roosevelt takes the oath of office from Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
President Franklin Roosevelt takes oath of office at his inauguration in Washington, DC at start of his second term
Crowd gathered before inaugural stand in front of US Capitol, many holding umbrellas / Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes administering oath of office to Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt / shot from behind as Roosevelt recites oath of office...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Some senators see Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's court-packing proposal as a threat to the Constitutional separation of powers
EXT Supreme Court Building in Washington, DC / CU frieze of the Supreme Court – "Equal Justice Under Law" / CU Pres. Franklin Roosevelt saying "We must act now" (no audio); he wears black tie / LS inaugural stand where Pres. Roosevelt...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Warren G. Harding "front porch campaign" event at his home in Marion, OH, 1920
A large crowd of people, some with Harding signs, surge at the Harding house / Republican presidential candidate Warren G. Harding speaks with singer Al Jolson at the left who then starts a lively song with musicians playing behind him;...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes during third inauguration
PAN left profile of US Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes; Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt right profile (standing at microphones with crowd below) during Roosevelt's third inauguration
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
1940 funeral for Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to US
WS Washington National Cathedral, with crowd in front, unfinished wing and scaffolding at left rear, and funeral procession of British Ambassador to the US Philip Henry Kerr (Lord Lothian) moving up the steps / Eleanor Roosevelt decars,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn in as US President in 1933
[Shaky video throughout] WS US Capitol / large crowd of spectators, with cameraman in front / MS SOT Franklin D. Roosevelt takes the oath of office, administered by Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes; spectators...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
1934 United States Supreme Court justices
MWS still photo of 1934 US Supreme Court Justices / CU Justice Willis Van Devanter / CU Justice Louis D. Brandeis / CU Van Devanter, again / CU Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes / CU Justice James Clark McReynolds / CU Justice George...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
President Herbert Hoover lays cornerstone for new US Supreme Court Building in Washington, DC
Title card: "Hoover lays cornerstone for US Supreme Court - President arrives for ceremony at which John W. Davis speaks for Bar Association" / Pres. Herbert Hoover arriving for ceremony, walking up steps to stage and being greeted by...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for a third term
VS tilt down dignitaries walking to their seats; Sara Delano Roosevelt; Supreme Court justices walking to podium with crowd beyond / wide shot of inaugural platform / John Nance Garner administers vice presidential oath of office to...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Warren G. Harding campaigns for president, 1920
Crowd watches political "front porch campaign" rally for Senator Warren G. Harding at his home in Marion, OH / banners for Harding - Coolidge ticket / Al Jolson and others on platform with Harding / Jolson singing / saxophones / Harding...
Hearst Metrotone News
Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes administers the Oath of Office to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes administers the Oath of Office to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941.