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Former President Theodore Roosevelt and pilot Arch Hoxsey preparing for take-off for Roosevelt's first airplane ride. International Aviation Meet, Kinloch Field. 11 October 1910
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Colonel Roosevelt is invited to fly in Arch Hoxsey's plane at St. Louis, Mo., 1910 /
Summary
While participating in the Missouri State Republican Party's campaign on October 11, 1910, TR is invited to fly in a biplane with Arch Hoxsey as pilot. Accompanied by Herbert S. Hadley, Governor of Missouri (1909-1913) and two men who appear to be Henry W. Kiel, Mayor of St. Louis, and Sheriff Louis Nolte, TR arrives in motorcade at Kinloch aviation field; man, who appears to be Hoxsey, inspects plane; medium shot of TR as he enters passenger seat of biplane; long shot of plane flying; TR alights from plane, joins waiting crowd, enters automobile and drives away in motorcade.
Copyright: no reg.
Duration: 3:33 at 20 fps.
Arch Hoxsey, Herbert Hadley, Henry W. Kiel, Louis Nolte.
Roosevelt Memorial Association numbers: RMA 309-04-02; RMA 309-04-03.
MAVIS 1203936; Colonel Roosevelt is invited to fly in Arch Hoxsey's plane at St. Louis, Mo., 1910.
National Park Service acquired from Roosevelt Memorial Association (RMA). RMA purchase from Thomas Jackson.
Sources used: St. Louis globe-democrat. 10/12/10:1-2; St. Louis republic. 10/12/10:1, 3; P&P portrait file.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
viewing print and dupe neg; Received: Feb. 1976 from LC lab; preservation; Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection.