Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAR. 1]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MAR. 1]

1950

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/99475

Part 1, shows Republicans, including Congressman Joe Martin and Senators Ferguson, Brewster, and Smith, at a Washington, D.C., box supper. Part 2, shows courtroom scenes in Bridgeport, Conn., as a daughter is acquitted of the "mercy" killing of her father. Part 3, Bob Hope leaves the White House after a visit with Pres. Truman, poses with Vice Pres. and Mrs. Barkley, and visits the Pentagon Bldg. where Air Force Sec. Symington presents the Air Force's "Exceptional Service award to him. Part 4, shows 4-man bobsled teams going down the course at Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy. Part 5, shows a banquet held by, the National Conference of Christians and Jewish in N.Y.C.'s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Personages include Gene Tunney.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6515229

National Archives at College Park

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Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956

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Symington, Stuart, 1901-1988

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Tunney, Gene, 1898-

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