Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 15]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JULY 15]

1955

Part 1 shows the remains of a helicopter which crashed while taking off from a 16-story building in New York City. Part 2, members of the first Air Force Academy class sign on at Lowry Air Force Base, hear an address by Air Force Sec. Talbott at the dedication, and then parade. Part 3, President Eisenhower praises Oveta Culp Hobby as he accepts her resignation at the White House. Part 4, European refugees disembark from a transport ship at New York. Part 5, baseball: the National league wins the All-Star game at Milwaukee.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6515698

National Archives at College Park

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) was leader of the Allied forces in Europe in World War II, commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), and the thirty-fourth president of the United States, from January 20, 1953, to January 20, 1961. Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, the third son of David Jacob Eisenhower, a railroad worker, and Ida Elizabeth Stover. In 1891, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas, where David accepted a job at a local creamery run by ...

Hobby, Oveta Culp, 1905-1995

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