Fox Movietone News Collection. 1957 - 1963. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 1957 - 1963. Movietone News, Vol. 44, No. 104

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Fox Movietone News Collection. 1957 - 1963. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 1957 - 1963. Movietone News, Vol. 44, No. 104

1961

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Part 1, USAF Capt. Virgil I. Grissom and Navy Comdr. Alan B. Shepard get first Space Wings from Pres. John F. Kennedy Wash., D.C. Part 2, Moishe Tshombe's Katangese forces attack U.N. forces in Elizabethville, Congo; wounded and dead taken away by ambulance. Part 3, building continues on the Berlin Wall between East and West Berlin, German West Berliners bring Christmas trees to West side and plant them. Part 4, Lt. Charlene Suneson of WAVES reports for sea duty aboard U.S.S. Gen. W.A. Mann at Alameda, California; at mess with 15 bachelor officers. Part 5, Baylor University tops Utah University in football at Gotham Stadium in N.Y.C. Giants top Eagles at Franklin field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

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Grissom, Virgil I. (Virgil Ivan), 1926-1967

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Shepard, Alan B. (Alan Bartlett), 1923-1998

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Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman. In 1961, he became the first American to travel into space, and in 1971, he walked on the Moon. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Shepard saw action with the surface navy during World War II. He became a naval aviator in 1946, and a test pilot in 1950. He was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts in ...