Ike's Home-Coming (Universal Newsreel, Jun 1952)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. IKE'S HOME-COMING / NOMINATION CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED IN ABILENE - In his boyhood hometown, Dwight D. Eisenhower, now "Citizen" Eisenhower, his NATO duties behind him, fires the opening gun in his campaign to win the Republican nomination at Chicago. Friends and former neighbors give the retired General a hero's welcome as he arrives, with a gala street parade held in his honor. 2. ITALY PARADES ITS MIGHT: ROME - More than 20,000 troops, joined by tanks and low-flying planes, present a stirring spectacle as Italy stages the greatest military parade since World War II, to mark the sixth anniversary of the Republic. The famed Bersaglieri are in the line of march. 3A/B/C. TRUMANS HOST TO VETS: WASHINGTON - President and Mrs. Truman, and daughter Margaret, are host to hundreds of disabled and crippled veterans, at their annual garden party at the White House. Top military and Cabinet officers are in the receiving line. / FARM BUILT IN A DAY: MOSES LAKE, WA - A 120-acre farm, complete with farmhouse and cultivated fields, is accomplished in less than a day. An army of workers and farmhands gets the farm ready for the lucky ex-GI who was picked by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. / LOOK! A HORSE ON SKATES?: INDIAN LAKE, OH - You've seen everything now—for here's a horse named Jimmy who does very nicely, thank you, on roller skates. The precocious beast takes himself a merry spin on the roller rink. 4. ARMY AND NAVY GRADUATION: WEST POINT AND ANNAPOLIS - Highlights of June Week at our two great service schools the Military and Naval Academies. 517 Cadets receive their commissions at West Point, where it's "Hats Off" to Future Generals. At Annapolis, pretty Color Girl Helene Kidd presents the colors to the top brigade.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library