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Abraham Zapruder Camera
1963
Acceptance Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy Democratic National Convention The New Frontier
7/15/1960
Account of Events of 12 May 1968 by Robert M. Gatewood for Joe Jackson's Congressional Medal of Honor
5/15/1968
Relocation Account of Flaveous and Oma Boren
8/10/1966
Acknowledgment of service obligation signed by Elvis Presley on March 24, 1958
3/24/1958
Application from the ACLU to Appear Amicus Curiae
5/19/1945
Act of April 13, 1966 (Uniform Time Act of 1966), Public Law 89-387, 80 STAT 107, which promoted the observance of a uniform sytem of time throughout the United States
4/13/1966
Act of August 10, 1965 (Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965), Public Law 89-117, 79 STAT 451, which assisted in the provision of housing for low-and moderate-income families, promoted orderly ur
8/10/1965
Act of July 26, 1947 ("National Security Act"), Public Law 80-253, 61 STAT 495, "to promote the national security by providing for a Secretary of Defense; for a National Military Establishment; for a
07/26/1947
Act of July 29, 1958 (National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958), Public Law 85-568, 72 STAT 426, which provided for research into the problems of flight within and outside the earth's atmosphere.
7/29/1958
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