Norfolk Plane Crash (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1958)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. NORFOLK PLANE CRASH - At Norfolk, Va., a Navy aerial tanker plane crashes in a residential neighborhood, demolishing two homes. A Navy man's wife–two infants and the plane's 4 crewmen are killed. 2. SEVEN FEET OF SNOW - Oswego, New York, is snarled by a four-day snow fall. Four days that seem like eternity–while nearly seven feet of snow pounds the city in 20-foot drifts. Homes and stores collapse under the impact of the storm which halted all avenues of life in this town. 3. REGULUS II TESTED - Off Point Mugu, California, the Navy test-fires its new Regulus II guided missile weapons system, from the deck of a ship modified to duplicate that of the latest nuclear guided-missile submarine. 4. 25 YEARS AGO TODAY - Then, as now, people were turning out en masse for the BIG events. Among the crowd-pulling sports highlights of 1933, on the turf, Equipoise, winning the Hawthorn Gold Cup; the Boston Marathon with a newcomer scoring an upset victory over Clarence DeMar, even then a veteran! Denny Shute and John Goodman, battled on the greens for the mythical "World's Championship of Golfdom;" Baseball's Most Valuable Player was Carl Hubbell, who pitched the N.Y. Giants to the World Series; in the Rose Bowl, a Howard Jones-coached USC powerhouse mauled the Pitt Panthers, 35-0. Louis Meyer roared to victory in the Indianapolis 500-mile auto racing classic, at a sizzling 104 mph. And in the prize ring, heavyweight champ Primo Carnera mixed it up with Jo-Jo, King of Australia's fighting kangaroos.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library