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Newsreels: 1959 Review SPORTS

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keywords: pro skiing, arlberg-kandahar ski meet, ncaa college basketball finals, high jumper john curtis thomas, pro golfing, pro golfer billy casper, pro tennis, pro tennis player neale frasier, pro baseball, world series 1959, la dodgers, boston white sox, aau platform diving championships, president franklin d. roosevelt, dictator benito mussolini of italy, foreign minister pierre laval of france, general john blackjack pershing

Synopsis: Disaster Strikes At The Arlberg-Kandahar Ski Meet, College Basketball NCAA Finals, John Curtis Thomas Set New High Jump Record, Pro Golfer Billy Casper Wins With Expert Putting, Pro Tennis Neale Frasier Wins US Singles Championships, Pro Baseball World Series 1959, AAU Platform Diving Championships, Twenty-Five Years Ago: Dictator Benito Mussolini Of Italy Reviews Troops 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt State Of The Union Speech 1934, Italy And France Sign The Franco-Italian Agreement Of 1935, General John J. Pershing Is Honored 1934, Jimmy Doolittle Sets New Coast To Coast Flight Record 1934...(read more)

Date: 1959
Duration: 00:06:13
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: United States, Austria, Italy

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Newsreels: 1959 Review SPORTS

Disaster Strikes At The Arlberg-Kandahar Ski Meet

The famous Arlberg-Kandahar Ski Meet at Garmisch is a disaster for some of the world’s top downhill racers who come to grief on the treacherous slope.

College Basketball NCAA Finals

In the N.C.A.A. Basketball finals at Louisville, California edges the West Virginia Mountaineers by one point.

John Curtis Thomas Set New High Jump Record

A new record High Jump by seventeen year old John Cutis Thomas, who leaps 7’-1.25” in New York.

Pro Golfer Billy Casper Wins With Expert Putting

Dead-eye putting by Billy Casper brings him honors on the links as he wins the Open Golf crown at the new York Winged Foot Club.

Pro Tennis Neale Frasier Wins US Singles Championships

Aussie tennis ace Neale Fraser twice defeats Alex Olmedo to help send the Davis Cup down under and to win the U.S. Singles championship.

Pro Baseball World Series 1959

In the Baseball World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers out-hit, out-ran, and out played the White Sox to leap from last season’s cellar position to the pinnacle of diamond success.

AAU Platform Diving Championships

A superb series of performances in the most eye-appealing of all sports in the A.A.U. Platform Diving Championships in San Francisco.

Twenty Five Years Ago: 1934

Dictator Benito Mussolini Of Italy Reviews Troops

Mussolini reviews Italian troops joining the League of Nations police force to keep order in the heated electoral battle for Europe’s rich coal-mining region. Nazi funds bring German-Americans back to vote. One of the turning points in European history between the wars.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt State Of The Union Speech 1934

FDR's State Of The Union speech foresees the return of prosperity to depression-ridden America.

Italy And France Sign The Franco-Italian Agreement Of 1935

Dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy and Foreign Minister Pierre Laval of France sign a pact paving the way for Fascist aggression by ceding parts of French Somaliland to Italy and giving Italy a free hand in Abyssinia.