Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. Cuban crisis

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection. 1964 - 1980. Cuban crisis

1962

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Jet fighters taking off. MS, Pan American Union building. CU, sign on building: "Organization of American States." Int, empty chair for Cuban delegate. Sec. of State Dean Rusk speaking. VS, ships at sea. Sailors at map. Troops walking from plane. LS, M-42, self-propelled, twin-40mm gun, on field. AV, jets on airfield. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay and other Air Force general officers looking at jets. Gen. Walter C. Sweeney arrives at Homestead AFB, Fla., and is greeted by officers. Trucks load into C-124. C-124 takes off. AV, B-52 refueling in flight. LS, Kremlin in Moscow. Cargo planes taxiing. LS, paratroopers jumping from planes. LS, House of Parliament in London. MS, SHAPE HQ building. Night shot, Arch of Triumph in Paris. American ships at sea. AV, B-52 in flight. Night. HS, Moscow. MS, Premier Nikita S. Krushchev speaking. CU, headline in newspaper, "Krushchev Orders Removal of Missiles." CU, photographs of Russian missile sites in Cuba. Stills of Russian ships at sea with missiles on their decks. CU, sign: "Homestead AFB." President Kennedy inspects aircraft and men and adds battle streamer to flag. CU, President Kennedy speaking superimposed over Air Force burial ceremony and formation of jets in flight.

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