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A Look Back: An Old Home Movie of a Family’s Visit to Washington and the White House

  • Published August 16, 2013
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Take a look back in time with this old home movie of a family's visit to Washington and the White House. You'll be shocked to see how much security has changed compared to today! This film was sourced from the Internet Archive.
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This is a great find from archive.org. We dug up an old home movie of a family’s visit to Washington and the White House. When you watch it, you’ll be shocked to see how different the times were (i.e., security compared to today was non-existent)

Source: The Internet Archive

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