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Newsreels: 1953 March 16
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keywords: cold war, east german refugees, marine corporal duane dewey, president dwight d. eisenhower, medal of honor ceremony, white house lawn, presidential grandchildren, david eisenhower, ann eisenhower, susan eisenhower, presidential dog skunkie, sports, college basketball, seton hall vs st. johns, daytona beach motorcycle racing, ama national championships, motorcycle rider paul goldsmith, cold war, nuclear bomb tests, b-50 nuclear bomber, air dropped atomic bomb
Synopsis: East Germans Cross Red Border To Freedom, Marine Corporal Duane Dewey Receives The Medal Of Honor, Grandchildren Of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, College Basketball: Seton Hall University vs. St. John's College, Motorcycle AMA National Championships, An Actual Nuclear Test!...(read more)
- Date: 1953
- Duration: 00:06:33
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, Germany
East Germans Cross Red Border To Freedom
Thousands of Germans from Red Germany (East Germany) cross border into West Berlin. These refuges seek sanctuary in the West from their hopeless fate under the yoke of Communist oppression. Here they are screened for disposition throughout the Bonn Republic.
Marine Corporal Duane Dewey Receives The Medal Of Honor
Marine Corporal Duane Dewey of Michigan receives the Medal of Honor, the first to be awarded by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Corporal Dewey earned the nation’s highest honor by shielding his buddies from a grenade blast with his own body in Korea.
Grandchildren Of President Dwight D. Eisenhower
President Eisenhower grandchildren on White House lawn. The three youngsters, Dwight David Eisenhower II, Barbara Ann, and baby sister Susan, and their Scotty dog, Skunkie, keep delighted cameramen busy for a happy half hour.
College Basketball: Seton Hall University vs. St. John's College
Collegiate basketball footage at Madison Square Gardens in New York City. Seton Hall University moves to top rank among the nation’s basketball fives as lanky Walter “Wally” Dukes paces the Pirates to a 58-46 victory over St. John’s College in the National Invitational Tournament.
Motorcycle AMA National Championships
113 handlebar jockeys vie for top honors in the “Kentucky Derby” of motorcycle racing, the grueling 200 mile, AMA National Championships at Daytona Beach Florida. Victory goes to dark horse Paul Goldsmith, with the sizzling speed of 94.8 mph for the course.
An Actual Nuclear Bomb Test!
Historic 1953 films show unusual behind-the-scenes close-ups of secret research in the last series of A-bomb tests at Nevada Test Site. Spectacular shots of an actual atomic bombing run and a rare close-up of the atomic blast and signature mushroom cloud.
