Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 24]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 24]

1948

Part 1, the UN Security Council, on a motion by U.S. delegate Jessup, orders a truce in Palestine. Part 2, the rump convention of "Dixiecrats" in Birmingham, Ala., nominates Gov. Thurmond of S.C. for President and Gov. Wright of Miss. for Vice-Pres; Gov. Folsom of Ala. speaks. Part 3 shows baseball's Durocher, Shotton, and Ott as the N.Y. Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers change managers. Part 4, Gen. Pershing's body lies in state in the Capitol rotunda and is carried in a military funeral procession to Arlington Nat'l Cemetery. Gens. Eisenhower and Bradley, Pres. Truman, and Sec. of State Marshall attend the ceremonies. Flashbacks show Pershing in World War I and with Pres. Wilson and with Gen. Marshall.

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