First Job Corps Center Opens
First Job Corps Center Opens
One phase of the anti-poverty program gets underway at Thurmont Maryland, as the first of 25,000 Job Corps trainees arrive in camp. During their year's stay they will learn new skills and spend some time on conservation programs. Great Society program, War on poverty Two young men walking towards the camera and the barracks for housing in the background. The first of 25,00 job trainees arrive at camp and they all disembarking from the bus. Bus pulls up and stops and job trainees disembark from the bus. Sitting in a class room listening to what the instructor has to say. Most of the people here age high school drop-outs. A young man sawing a piece of wood. Two young men welding. A Core man getting trained on a Caterpillar 4-D tractor.