Video URL


90001_7558_pt5
Subjects

1965
B&W

The Houston Astros practice in their new Astrodome stadium. The Astrodome cost thirty million dollars and is fully weather resistant. The Astros pitch and hit the baseball while the narrator talks about the stadium. In the subsequent scene, Martin Luther King jr. leads the Selma Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Footage of children and families matching through the streets and highways is shown. Narrator forgets to mention the Alabama State Police force brutally attacking the demonstrators.