News Highlights of 1961
News Highlights of 1961
News Highlights of 1961 The year 1961 was a year of international tensions compounded by crisis after crisis.
News Highlights of 1961
07.06 Cairo: Riots protested Lumumba's death. Rioters in the streets, car burning.
News Highlights of 1961
07.20 Cuba: A communist regime strengthened its position 90 miles from the U.S.A. Fidel Castro making animated speech. (no audio)
News Highlights of 1961
07.25 Congo: Warfare still split this newly-created nation.
News Highlights of 1961
07.32 Laos War. Soldiers carrying guns, run through forest area.
News Highlights of 1961
07.38 South Vietnam. Combat footage.
News Highlights of 1961
07.40 Algeria: Brother is pitted against brother in this French possession. Soldiers in street, two soldiers release grenade ? which explodes down the street.
News Highlights of 1961
07.51 United States: John Fitzgerald Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president. Footage from President Kennedy's Inauguration.
News Highlights of 1961
08.11 Pan shot of Paris buildings and foggy view of Eiffel Tower in background. President Kennedy with General De Gaulle.
News Highlights of 1961
08.25 Vienna Kennedy seen with Khrushchev.
News Highlights of 1961
08.39 UK President Kennedy and Mrs. Jackie Kennedy exiting plane, walking on tarmac with British Prime Minister and military officials.
News Highlights of 1961
08.49 Dag Hammarskjold exiting plane. UN soldiers. Flags at UN are lowered after death of Hammarskjold. New official sworn in.
News Highlights of 1961
09.23 Space: The Russians claimed to have successfully orbited a man, while the U.S. put both Commander Shepard and Captain Grissom in sub-orbital flight. Newspaper headline : 'Reds Orbit Man : Bring Him Back Alive'. Yuri Gagarin. United States success, rocket in flight. Alan B. Shepard in flight suit. Recovery mission. Helicopter hovers over ocean, and pulls astronaut to safety. Alan B. Shepard. Grissom on flight deck after being rescued from ocean. Sailors line deck of ship.
News Highlights of 1961
10.40 Berlin: The line of demarcation between east and west is drawn in Berlin where the Communists throw up their Wall of Hate. It is here where the fate of the world may be decided. German civilians, refugees ? seen walking down steps. Empty street, bars on door. Soldiers seen behind wall and barbed wire. German people waving to loved ones, woman in open window waving with small children. Small girl wiping her eyes with a handkerchief, crying. Mother crying. Woman escaping from window, refugees escaping under barbed wire.
News Highlights of 1961
12.11 UN assembly, President Kennedy speaking to UN. "Never has the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain." conflicts, election, 1960s