Prison Riots (Universal Newsreel, Apr 1952)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. PRISON RIOTS: MICHIGAN & NEW JERSEY - Prison outbreaks are in the news, as rioting inmates at Rahway, N.J., and Jackson, Mich., barricade themselves in their cells as protest measures. Most serious rioting takes place at Southern Michigan Prison, where 200 convicts are holding guards as hostages, turn cell block into a shambles. 2. CALIFORNIA AIR CRASH: LOS ANGELES - The wreckage of a non-sked C-46 airliner lies strewn over hillside, following crash as craft came in for landing. Heart failure on the part of the pilot may be cause for tragedy that snuffed out 29 lives. 3A/B/C. DIKES HOLDING FLOOD: MIDWEST - Although new sections of the West are threatened by the rampaging Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, sand bags and wooden dikes erected by Army Engineers. National Guardsmen and local groups are holding back the flood waters in many sections. / TRUMAN OPENS AMVETS HQ: WASHINGTON - Dedicating the national headquarters of the Amvets, Pres. Truman warns the Veteran's group that world crisis is still acute, that we must arm because Russian peace bids are not followed by peaceful deeds. / "MOTHER OF THE WORLD": CHILE - The First Lady of Chile, lovely Senora Rosa Markmann de Gonzalez Videla, has been selected as the Mother of the World. She poses with husband, Chile's President, and views housing development she sponsored. 4A/B. THE WORLD OF SPORTS — HILL CLIMB - The season's first motorcycle hill climb gets off and up to a dizzy whirl of thrills and spills at Seattle. / HORSE RACE - The Wood Memorial at Jamaica, called the "Derby Test," is won by "Master Fiddle" in nip-and-tuck finish over the favored "Tom Fool." (LOCAL – DES MOINES) PREMIERE AIDS VICTIMS.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library