Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [APR. 7]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [APR. 7]

1954

Part 1, Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, and Brandon de Wilde participate in a charity circus in New York City. Part 2, students riot in Beirut, Lebanon, because of a proposed Turkey-Pakistan alliance. Police disperse them with water hoses. Part 3, Pres. Eisenhower, Gen. Ridgway, and other officials attend services for Gen. Vandenberg at National Cathedral, Wash., D.C. Shows the funeral procession at Arlington Cemetery. Part 4, troops and supplies are parachuted to besieged Dien Bien Phu. Communist supply depots are bombed. Part 5, steeplechase: the Grand National is run at Aintree, England.

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eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 6515578

National Archives at College Park

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