Fox Movietone News Collection. 1957 - 1963. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 1957 - 1963. MOVIETONE, NEWS

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Fox Movietone News Collection. 1957 - 1963. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 1957 - 1963. MOVIETONE, NEWS

1957

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Part 1, Pres. Eisenhower discusses, disarmament, atomic fall-out, and the Girard trial during a press conf. Part 2, Gen. Taylor presents commissions to West Point graduates; lower classmen parade. Part 3, "Color Girl" ceremonies are held at Annapolis Naval Academy. Part 4 shows furniture carved from ice in the French Alps. Part 5, flashbacks show early attempts to make guided missiles. Anti-aircraft and medium range missiles are tested. Part 6, Ger. skiers practice jumps on straw slides. Part 7, horse racing: the Epsom Derby at Epsom Downs, Eng.

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eng, Latn

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National Archives at College Park

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Taylor, Maxwell D. (Maxwell Davenport), 1901-1987

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