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News in Brief: Marines Get Honor Medal.
News in Brief: Marines Get Honor Medal. Two Marine majors, Reginald Myers and Carl Sitter, who led their troops to safety in Korea after communist trap, receive the nation's highest award, the Medal of Honor, from President Harry S. Truman. The men pose with their families, then with President Truman while press photographers take aim with their cameras.
Football: Stanford 27, USC 20
Football: Stanford 27, USC 20 96,000 fans see battle of titans, with University of Southern California Trojans and Stanford Indians fighting crucial Rose Bowl contest. Spectacular 96-yard kickoff return by Bob Mathias of Stanford is highlight of thrill-packed clash featuring long runs and daring passes. Frank Gifford (?). A pass is intercepted. This footage is fairly dark.
News in Brief: Georgia, War Training At Benning.
News in Brief: Georgia, War Training At Benning. Visiting officers from Central America and other nations receive realistic infantry training from (laid-back looking) U.S. instructors. Machine gun firing, bazooka firing and spectacular staged infantry attacks. Patches on various uniforms read "El Salvador" and "Guatemala." Latin American military, soldiers. VS staged battle: Men near foreground fire weapons and troops and at least one tank in the distance. Soldiers practice urban warfare on a "set" of sorts.
News in Brief: Demonstrations In Egypt.
News in Brief: Demonstrations In Egypt. Serried ranks of nationalists march through the streets of Cairo and Alexandria, in an organized protest against continued British occupation of the Suez Canal zone and the Sudan. VS masses of men, and some women, march along in peaceful, orderly protest. Some carry banners or signs (in Arabic).
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973. Testimony of John Dean.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973 - Testimony of John Dean.
Korea: War Goes On Despite Cease-Fire Reports
Korea: War Goes On Despite Cease-Fire Reports Reports that the U.N. Allies and the Communists had begun a 'no attack' truce along the front are brought to a dramatic halt. After the cease-fire rumors had been scotched, big guns open up along the front. Meanwhile, Vice President Barkley arrives for an inspection trip on his 74th birthday. POV from just in front of tank - the tank's gun pokes into frame. Soldier riding on front of tank looks through binoculars. Officer speaks to a group of soldiers seated on the ground; one of the soldiers stands up to ask a question. Est. shot tent, helmeted guards out in front. Caucasian man speaks to journalists (?) gathered around him in small group. Soldier talks on field telephone; his buddies scramble into position. Men load weapon (tank?); tank fires. View from just in front of tank again, this time with a plume of smoke rising in the distance. General Van Fleet welcomes Vice President Barkley as he gets off a small plane. Barkley chats with soldiers, General Matthew Ridgway looking on in background. Barkley inspects Turkish soldiers (part of the U.N. effort).
Football: Notre Dame 19, USC 12
Football: Notre Dame 19, USC 12 Fifty-six thousand stunned spectators see the underdog Irish come from behind twice to score a 19 to 12 victory over favored Trojans. College football upset. USC passing play. Frank Gifford (?) runs in for touchdown. Notre Dame player rushes for a score. More plays by the Irish. This footage is very dark.
News in Brief: California, Lady Godiva - 1951.
News in Brief: California, Lady Godiva - 1951. Mrs. Jerry Coburn creates quite a stir when she rides as 'Lady Godiva' during a horse show. But obedient husbands turn their backs as she arrives, and police act fast to prevent peeking. Blond woman sits reading book to man. The same woman, wearing very long blond hair (wig, most likely) and not much else, rides a white horse with a sign around its neck, "Taxes too high." Audience of ranch-type folk in cowboy hats, flannel, etc., stand up and turn their backs to the camera. The lady rides around, sidesaddle-style (but without a saddle). Older man peeks between slats in a fence, but a cowboy type with a sheriff's badge catches and gently shakes the peeping tom. A group of gentleman cowpokes wrap the lady in a blanket for modesty. Nudity?
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973. Testimony of John Dean.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973 - Testimony of John Dean.
Tax Probes: Ex U.S. Prosecutor Faces Committee.
Tax Probes: Ex U.S. Prosecutor Faces Committee. While President Truman begins drastic clean-up of the tax department, ousted Asst. Attorney General T. Lamar Caudle faces House investigators and tells his story of the dealings that led to his dismissal by the president. Mr. Caudle is an unhappy, harried witness as he takes the stand. Dark shots of House subcommittee investigation. Caudle complains, says "No one on earth can feel at home in this place." Laughter. Off-screen man (Congressman Burns?) asks a question; Caudle replies that there are often quick conversations, memos that aren't thought through and other things happening so quickly -- questioner interrupts, "Well, that's a pretty sloppy way to run a department, isn't it?" Caudle actually pulls at his collar in his anxiety. Government scandal.
News in Brief: Japan, Sailors Adopt Orphans
News in Brief: Japan, Sailors Adopt Orphans American sailors and marines have adopted an entire orphanage, re-built the war torn place and provided food and friendship for the young inmates. Their thanks - the smiles on the faces of their young charges. Blond American sailor sits at table with a bunch of Japanese children, laughing with them. Little boys carry wooden planks as part of construction project. VS sailors at work painting the building. Toddler attempts to wipe paint off of an American's face - cute. Group of Japanese children giggle.
News in Brief: Kids 'Play' Post Office
News in Brief: Kids 'Play' Post Office No kissing game, this, but a serious game of charity for others less fortunate. Postmasters are youngsters whose pictures appear on stamps, sale of which helps bring cheer to kids in orphanges. Various sheets of stamps each featuring the portrait of a child, and shots of some of the children who are featured. Children act as workers and customers at play "post office" and one little girl sits on a stack of books to get high enough.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973. Testimony of John Dean.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973 - Testimony of John Dean.
News in Brief: Atlantic City Fire.
News in Brief: Atlantic City Fire. Worst fire in history of the famed ocean resort sweeps through two city blocks, destroying four hotels and thirteen homes in its path. The famed Congress Hotel goes up in smoke. VS aftermath of fire, a lot of destruction (many buildings), smoke still rising. The sign for the Congress Hotel is lying on the ground.
News in Brief: Plane Crash In River.
News in Brief: Plane Crash In River. Crash landing in the East River in a fog, a twin-engined airliner sinks with only its tail and one wing-tip showing. Thirty-three passengers and crew of three miraculously escape with their lives due to prompt action by rescue boats. Ground to air shot of plane flying over, tilt down to wing of plane poking out of the water, a few boats nearby. A helicopter joins the effort. No rescue or survivors are seen, mostly shots of the downed plane. In the event of a water landing...
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973. Testimony of John Dean.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973 - Testimony of John Dean.
News in Brief: Africa, African Volcano Erupts.
News in Brief: Africa, African Volcano Erupts. Nyamuragira, Virunga Mountains, Congo The largest volcano in the French Congo, relatively obscure and unknown, presents a fiery, forbidding appearance as it goes on a rampage during visit of newsreel cameraman. Shower of molten lava is visible for miles. Eruption is progress, aerial and close shots. Night shots of erupting lava.
News in Brief: California, Flying Congressman Home.
News in Brief: California, Flying Congressman Home. After a globe-girdling flight of 35,000 miles, Rep. Peter Mack of Illinois returns with a new concept of international relations. Former Navy flier, Mr. Mack flew in from Honolulu. Small plane taxis. Man in cockpit, wearing bow tie, waves to camera. Press take pictures. Mack puts a flowered lei around his neck, mugs.
News in Brief: Washington DC, Voice Of America.
News in Brief: Washington DC, Voice Of America. The Voice of America is now going sea, to spread the voice of freedom behind the iron curtain. Pres. Truman speaks during inaugural ceremonies on board cutter 'Courier.' Shot of the Coast Guard cutter. President Harry S. Truman boards the boat. Various shots of radio equipment, dishes/transmitters, etc. Radio operator/engineer adjusts some knobs. Truman speaks at podium under a tent. Propaganda.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973. Testimony of John Dean.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973 - Testimony of John Dean.
News in Brief: Canada Cattle Slaughtered.
News in Brief: Canada Cattle Slaughtered. Dread hoof & mouth disease breaks out in Saskatchewan, and hundreds of diseased cattle are rounded up and shot to prevent the further spread of the dread plague. Farm in winter. Men post sign: "Quarantined." Cows are herded along. Cows in a pit unknowingly awaiting death. Men fire guns toward the cattle. Bulldozer pushes dirt over the dead cattle in their giant grave.
Citizens Angry Over Town's Destruction.
Citizens Angry Over Town's Destruction. Death hovers over this tiny lumber village high in the Alps. The government wants to flood the place to make way for a giant power project. But the citizens are angry, and some sixty of them even threaten mass suicide rather than leave. High angle shots of snowy village. Map of the area. French citizens talk at a town meeting sort of thing. Window shutters being closed. Various shots to represent the emptying village - man walks out door with bundle on his back, scenes of empty schoolroom, puppy walks along piece of furniture on a cart.
Scrap Drive: Ancient Locomotives Cut Up For War Sinews.
Scrap Drive: Ancient Locomotives Cut Up For War Sinews. Ancient veterans of the rails highball down the track on their way to the scrap pile. Scores of outdated train engines, no longer useful, are put to the torch and thousands of pounds of vital scrap iron gained for construction of new tanks needed in Korea. Last shot shows tanks rolling by the old trains.
Nature's Rampage: 224 Die in Tornadoes; Airlift Feeds Cattle.
Nature's Rampage: 224 Die in Tornadoes; Airlift Feeds Cattle. At latest count, 223 persons lost their lives and over one thousand were hurt, in wake of sudden tornado that lashed wide areas in the South. Hardest hit is Judsonia, a small town in Arkansas, where devastation looks like place had been leveled by atom bomb. Lots of twisted wreckage - hard to tell what some of it was. Car buried under piles of bricks. Woman searches the remains of a house. People come up from an underground storm cellar. Bank vault, still standing, though the bank around it has been destroyed. Disaster relief station set up in church. In other disaster news, snow has blanketed cattle ranges in Montana and Nevada. Hay is loaded onto planes, then flown and thrown overboard to (presumably) the animals in the snowy land below. Cows eat hay.