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Newsreels 1961 Year In Review Headlines
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keywords: cold war, congo riot, dictator fidel castro, vietnam war, algerian civil war, president john f. kennedy, the space race, cosmonaut yuri gagarin, the berlin wall
Synopsis: Demonstrators Protest Assassination Of Prime Minister Lumumba Of Congo, Dictator Fidel Castro Declares He's Always Been A Communist, Presidential Procession Celebration In Congo, Fighting Continues In Laos And South Vietnam, Civil War For Independence Erupts In Algeria, A New U.S. President And A New Hope - John F. Kennedy, The Space Race Heats Up With Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, East Germany Begins The Berlin Wall...(read more)
- Date: 1961
- Duration: 00:06:24
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, Cuba, Vietnam, Algeria, East Germany
Newsreels: 1961 - Year In Review Headlines
Demonstrators Protest Assassination Of Prime Minister Lumumba Of Congo
Riots protesting Congo's Prime Minister Lumumba’s assassination. Massive demonstrations with burning vehicles.
Dictator Fidel Castro Declares He's Always Been A Communist
A communist regime strengthens its hold on Cuba, only 90 miles from the U.S. coastline. Castro on podium using aggressive body language as he speaks of always being a communist.
Presidential Procession Celebration In Congo
Warfare still split this newly created nation. A leader waves toward a crown of supporters.
Fighting Continues In Laos And South Vietnam
Here again, War continues to plague both countries. Combat footage, soldiers firing at enemy in jungle and high grass.
Civil War For Independence Erupts In Algeria
Brother is pitted against Brother in this French possession. Soldiers guarding street corner, grenade is launched down street and explodes.
A New U.S. President And A New Hope - John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th President Of The United States. Excellent shots of swearing in ceremony, Kennedy travels to Europe meeting with French General DeGaulle. Shows meeting between President Kennedy and Russian Premier Nikita Krushchev in Vienna. Kennedy arrives in Britain after meeting with Krushchev.
Scenes of Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General, in the newly independent Congo, former Begiun Congo. Scenes of flags being lowered at the UN Building in New York City after Dag Hammarskjöld is killed in plane crash. Scenes of U Thant of Myanmar as he is succeeds Hammarskjöld as U.N. Secretary-general.
The Space Race Heats Up With Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
Russians successfully orbit Yuri Gagarin who becomes the first man to orbit the earth in the propaganda coup of the year. Newspaper headlines reads “Reds Orbit Man, Brings Him Back Alive”.
The U.S. successfully launches Commander Alan B. Shepard in a sub-orbital flight in Freedom 7 spacecraft. Scenes of a helicopter hoisting Alan B. Shepard onboard at the end of his sub-orbital Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) flight May 5, 1961.
Shows lift-off of Captain Grissom in Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft on July 21, 1961 for another sub-orbital flight in which his space capsule, Liberty Bell 7 is lost at sea.
East Germany Begins The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall becomes the line of demarcation between East Berlin and West Berlin as the Communists build their Wall of Hate. Hastily barricades of brick and barbed wire are thrown up by East Germany as German civilians continue to run across 'No Man's Land' to West Germany. Scenes of family members in East Berlin waves to family that was able to escape to West Berlin.
Historic footage of people escaping from East Berlin. Shows Red police trying to stop a woman from escaping as she hangs from a building window. The woman is pulled to safety in West Berlin. Shows east German people escaping through a hole in the barbwire fence aided by West Berlin people. Shows people running and escaping over a barbwire fence.
Scenes of President John F. Kennedy addressing the United Nations on September 25, 1961 and his closing remarks: “Ladies and gentlemen of this Assembly, the decision is ours. Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames. Save it we can--and save it we must--and then shall we earn the eternal thanks of mankind and, as peacemakers, the eternal blessing of God”.
