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Newsreels: 1959 - April 16
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Synopsis: Secretary Of State John Foster Dulles Resigns Due To Cancer, Top Military Precision Flying Teams Dazzle The Crowds, AT&T Holds Biggest Annual Meeting In US Corporate History, Former President Herbert Hoover Dedicates Memorial To The Late Senator Robert A. Taft, Premiere For New Hollywood Film This Earth Is Mine, Atlas ICBM Disintegrates In Missile Test...(read more)
- Date: 1959
- Duration: 00:06:26
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Secretary Of State John Foster Dulles Resigns Due To Cancer
At temporary White House quarters in Augusta, Ga., President Dwight D. Eisenhower sadly announces that John Foster Dulles has resigned as Secretary of State because, stricken with cancer, he is incapacitated for carrying on the administrative load of his office. In his drama-packed announcement the President said Mr. Dulles would continue to serve as foreign policy adviser. Mr. Eisenhower led the Nation and the world in paying tribute to the seventy-one year old Mr. Dulles – his wisdom, his devotion and his courage. A truly great public figure.
Top Military Precision Flying Teams Dazzle The Crowds
It’s a Jet up and go show from start to finish. At Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, 10 Nations participate to make the Mojave Desert ring with voices of the Free World Air Power. Something to witness this World Congress of Flight and none present will ever forget it. Navy Blue Angels, Air Force Thunderbirds, Chinese Nationalists Tigers, Italy’s Red Devils, Royal Netherlands Dash – 4’s – all these and many more. A morale stiffener for the Free World in the face of Russian efforts to boot us out of Berlin. A dazzling display of air might which staggers the imagination.
AT&T Holds Biggest Annual Meeting In US Corporate History
The biggest annual meeting in U.S. corporate history is held in Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx, New York City. More than 12,000 share-owners assemble for the meeting on proposed stock split.
Former President Herbert Hoover Dedicates Memorial To The Late Senator Robert A. Taft
At the Taft Bell Towner Memorial ceremony attended by Former President Herbert Hoover and members of the President’s cabinet, as well as all the top officers of the Democratic Congress in addition to more than 5,000 spectators. The Taft carillon memorializes a man of Congress. The man who led the Senate during the turbulent Eightieth Congress as Mr. Republican, and who in 1952 lost his final battle for the Presidential nomination to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. He died in July 1953 at the age of sixty-three.
Premiere For New Hollywood Film This Earth Is Mine
Hollywood’s Screen Directors Guild Theatre is the scene of press preview of Universal-International’s newest hit This Earth Is Mine. Top screen names turn out for the showing – among them Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger and a newcomer named Cindy Robbins.
Atlas ICBM Disintegrates In Missile Test
Some spectacular films of a disintegrated missile. Shots show mid-air destruction of an Atlas ICBM seconds after launching off Cape Canaveral, Fla. Incredible close-ups of clouds of flames picturing the wrecked rocket.
