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Newsreels: 1960 Events At Home And Abroad
Newsreels 1960 stock footage documents world events, politics and war as well as sports, fashion and entertainment for the year of 1960. Our Public Domain Stock Footage newsreels cover every major world event, the not so major events, strides in technology, the lives of public figures, fads and trends. Newsreels 1960 is an incredibly rich resource of visual history that tells the story of the year 1960. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1960 (UE60101)
WEEK OF DISASTER!
WORST AIR CRASH IN HISTORY!
Two huge airliners collide in the skies over New York City, in the worst disaster in aviation history. One, a jet with 84 aboard, crashes in a crowded Brooklyn neighborhood, killing all aboard, and it's believed, at least 7 on the ground. Houses and shops are shattered by the impact. The other plane, which hits in Staten Island carries to death all 44 aboard. A terrible casualty list to underscore the peril of the traffic jam in America's skies.
AIR FORCE PLANE CRASHES IN MUNICH:
Within 24 hours, an American military transport crashes in a Munich, Germany, street, hitting a crowded streetcar in the heart of the city's shopping district. All 20 aboard the plane, mostly students going home for the holidays, and 29 on the ground are killed.
NEWEST CARRIER A HOLOCAUST:
In Brooklyn Navy Yard, an accident during construction work on the "Constellation" turns the Navy's biggest, newest, aircraft carrier into a grisly holocaust. Of 4,200 aboard, most are saved in a massive, heroic rescue operation, but at least 50 are believed dead, and an unknown number trapped in the inferno below the ship's red-hot deck plates.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
In Georgia, F.D.R., launches the first Rural resettlement project, offering new homes and new lives to hundreds of poverty-blighted farm families. The first slum-clearance municipal housing is dedicated in New York City by Mrs. Roosevelt as Gov. Lehman and Mayor La Guardia look on. At a special convocation of Notre Dame University, Cardinal Mundelein states the position of the Catholic Church on political activity. In Miami, a daredevil birdman defies gravity to plummet 8,000 feet in a daring acrobatic display........ |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1960 (UE60102)
RECOVER "MAN-IN-SPACE" CAPSULE:
The firing into space and recovery of a one-ton space capsule of the design which will carry America's first Project Mercury astronaut marks a major stride in the nation's man-in-space program. The capsule is fired 130 miles up from Cape Canaveral, atop a giant Redstone rocket, and is successfully recovered 220 miles down the Atlantic firing range.
PROBE CARRIER FIRE:
In the aftermath of the catastrophic blaze aboard the carrier "Constellation", in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in which 47 construction workers died, a Navy Court of Inquiry begins an investigation as clean-up operations begin. Scenes show the fire-gutted interior of the $275 million craft, and in interview with Secretary of the Navy William B. Franke, who disagrees with Fire Commissioner Cavanaugh's criticism of the use of wooden scaffolding as a factor in the tragedy.
KENNEDY CONFERS WITH CONGRESS LEADERS:
In Palm Beach, Fla., President-elect Kennedy confers with his running mate Senator Lyndon Johnson, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, and the new Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield on strategy for putting Senator Kennedy's legislative program through Congress.
OPERA-GOING FASHIONS:
High styles for Grand Opera in Milan, Italy, where the important season of the year is the season of the La Scala opera. Milan's most beautiful models show the most sumptuous creations of the fashion capital's leading designers.
TRAMPOLINE CHAMPIONS:
In Gernany, where the trampoline is becoming a national sports craze, a contest for the national championship sends over two dozen acrobatic types twisting and twirling through the air in a show of skill and timing that has the crowd, and the cameraman, awhirl. |
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NEWSREEL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1960 (UE60103)
TURMOIL IN BELGIUM:
Strikes and demonstrations by some 700,000 Socialist union members in
Belgium protest planned austerity measures caused by the nation's financial
losses in the Congo. Strikers clash with police as transportation and vital
services are crippled and the nation nearly paralyzed since the holiday
season's start.
BROKEN TANKER REACHES PORT:
The stern section of the tanker Pine Ridge is towed into Newport News,
Virginia. The ship broke in half in mountainous seas off Cape Hatteras,
N.C., a marine tragedy in which seven seamen lost their lives.
COLD WAR HOT IN LAOS:
Newest hot spot in the cold war is Laos. Vientiane, capital city, is in
ruins after a battle that ousts Communist rebels. Among the buildings gutted
is the U.S. Embassy. The Reds continue to pour in military aid to the
rebels, making this nation the hot spot of the Cold War.
EAGLES DOWN PACKERS, 17-13:
In Philadelphia, the hometown Eagles beat the Green Bay Packers 17-13 for
the N.F.L. football championship in a thrilling game sparked by Norm Van
Brocklin's passing and the running of rookie fullback Ted Dean.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
The nation watches the fascinating progress of construction on the Golden
Gate Bridge. Ex-Champ Jack Dempsey gets a prize-winning steer as a gift from
an admirer. The Santa Anita season opens with the Christmas Stakes, a turf
thriller won by Top Row in record time. Willie Hoppe is defeated in a
classic match for the World's Three-Cushion Billiards Championship by Welker
Cochrane. Collegiate basketball shows how the game has changed as N.Y.U.
defeats California. A pretty 18-year-old girl wrestles a tiger, in startling
scenes. She's unprotected but trusts the gentleness of the giant cat she
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