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Newsreels: 1964 - July 2
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keywords: robert kennedy, communist poland, mid-air collision, r.a.f. precision acrobatic team, state of israel, david ben gurion, dr. chaim weizmann
Synopsis: Robert Kennedy And Family Visits Poland, 17 Perish As Two Air Force Planes Collide Mid-Air, R.A.F. Precision Acrobatic Show, Yesterday's Big Story - New Nation of Israel Is Born and Becomes Member of U.N...(read more)
- Date: 1964
- Duration: 00:05:55
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Poland, North Atlantic, England, Israel
Robert Kennedy And Family Visits Poland
Robert Kennedy and his family In Poland continue to enjoy riotous receptions behind the Iron Curtain. In Cracow, despite an official news blackout, the crowd gets the word and the Kennedy's spend most of their six-hour visit on the roof of their sedan to escape the emotional crowds. Scenes of Robert Kennedy and family at Jagiellonian University in Cracow Poland. Robert Kennedy holding the Jagiellonian Globe at the Jagiellonian University Museum. Scenes of emotional Poles greeting Robert Kennedy. Image of the Monument or statue of Andrej Tadeusz Bonawentura Koscluszko in Warsaw Poland. Koscluszko was a Polish patriot that became an American General fighting in the American revolution.
17 Perish As Two Air Force Planes Collide Mid-Air
U.S. Air Force planes take off on a routine astronaut recovery practice mission when tragedy strikes in mid-air. Two planes collide, only 2 men are able to bail out and 20 others go down with the craft. Five men are pulled from the sea, but 17 are killed. Shows U.S. aircraft falling into the sea after mid-air collision. Shows smoking wreckage of the planes on the ocean, JC-130 aircraft flies over smoking wreckage.
R.A.F. Precision Acrobatic Show
The Royal Air Force RAF doesn't do all its flying in planes. Their Physical Training Display team limbers up for the Royal Tournament and when they unveil their trampoline acts to the crowd, the audience will be jumping for joy. Physical acrobatic stunts, physical fitness.
Yesterday's Big Story - New Nation of Israel Is Born and Becomes Member of U.N.
Scenes of a crowded boat load of Jewish refugees from Europe that attempted to land in Palestine in October 1947. Jewish couple with baby. Jewish woman on a litter carried by two men. Jewish refugees were turned away by the British and sent to an interment camp for displaced persons on Cypress. The British Mandate was about to end and the United Nations (UN) was debating the partition of Palestine between the Jews and the Arabs as a solution to the turmoil in that country. In May 1948 a new Jewish State, Israel, is born in a bath of blood.
Civil war in Mandatory Palestine. The Battle of Haifa or Operation Bl'ur Hametz was a Haganah operation with the objective of capturing the Arab neighborhoods of Haifa. Shows troops of the Jewish paramilitary organization, Haganah, in Haifa. Shows bodies of dead Arabs. Jewish troops capture hundreds of Arab prisoners.
On May 14, 1948 a new Jewish State of Israel was born with it's government headed by David Ben Gurion. Israel took her place in the world as the first Jewish homeland since the Romans sacked Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Shows Ben Gurion exiting automobile and entering a building in Tel Aviv, Israel. Shows Israeli soldiers with rifles on their shoulders. Shows Israeli flag waving in the breeze as a symbol of hope in a troubled world. United Nation teams accompany Israeli soldiers under a white flag of truce to recover bodies of Israeli soldiers killed in a continuing strife with Arab troops.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann joins Premier David Ben Gurion. in the new Israeli government as President. Israel goes before the United Nations (UN) seeking membership to that world body. The Arab nations walk out of UN when Israel was voted a member of the United Nations (UN). Shows empty UN seats of Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iran.
