Hearst Metrotone News, Inc., Collection. 1937 - 1942. News of the Day Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1963 - 12/1967. News of the Day (Dec. 6)

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Hearst Metrotone News, Inc., Collection. 1937 - 1942. News of the Day Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1963 - 12/1967. News of the Day (Dec. 6)

1964

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Part 1, U.N. Gen. Assembly opens in N.Y.C.; Ghana leader Alex Quaison-Sackey is elected Pres. of Assembly; in native dress for occasion, he speaks (sound). Part 2, ceremonies breaking ground for new John F. Kennedy Memorial Center on banks of Potomac in Wash., D.C; attended by Vice Pres. and Mrs. Hubert H. Humphrey and Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy; Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson breaks ground. Part 3, evacuation of villagers from path of sliding mountain in Landl, Austria; Austrian Pioneer Corps Engineers try to divert slide away from village, Part 4, John Huarte of Notre Dame, S. Bend, Ind., receives Heisman Trophy from F.J. Barry, president of the N.Y. Athletic Club.

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