Nightdriving through Tokyo. via cat2525jp on YouTube.

A video clip from the Occupy Wall Street protest in Zuccotti Park, NYC last night. I didn’t shoot the video, but am providing another way for others to find it. Viewers have alleged that NYPD seen in the video were striking protesters in their faces whilst making arrests.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan was fond of receiving his background material in video format. In the era before iMovie, Final Cut, and even PowerPoint, assembling B-roll video footage and adding appropriate soundtracks and voiceover narration required a lot of effort.

The CIA recently released some of that background material. This video was made in support of the President’s Moscow Summit in Helsinki in 1988, an event that was pivotal in Soviet-American relations. This will surely be boring to anyone who doesn’t have a passion for American presidential or political history. I love this stuff.