Ike's Gettysburg Press Conference (Universal Newsreel, Aug 1959)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. IKE'S GETTYSBURG PRESS CONFERENCE - President Eisenhower's first press conference in Gettysburg is marked by the Chief Executive's comments on Nikita Khrushchev's coming visit. Ike tells newsmen what he would like the Soviet Premier to see of America. 2A/B. FORMOSA FLOODS - The worst in over a century bring disaster truly staggering in scope to Formosa. Some 650 are dead, hundreds more missing, and a quarter of a million homeless. Even as rescue and relief work begins, the threat of famine, epidemic and of new rains menace the Island's recovery. / ROAD-E-O - In Washington, D.C., the 8th Annual Junior Chamber of Commerce Safe Driving Road-E-O. Top teen-age drivers put their cars through demanding tests of skill and judgment. 3. TOP GYMNASTS - America's top gymnasts go through their paces in a two-day series of events at West Point to select the United States team that will compete in the coming Pan-American games. Brilliant performances on parallel bars, trampoline, and horizontal bar. 4. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO - The beginning of the final chapter in the crime story of the decade–the solution of the LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING. A two-year manhunt ends when a police net closes on BRUNO RICHARD HAUPTMANN. Scenes show his arrest, the damning evidence found in the Bronx carpenter's garage, MRS. HAUPTMANN, the men who led the manhunt–J. EDGAR HOOVER and COL. SCHWARTZKOPF–and the dramatic courtroom battles in which Hauptmann fought against extradition to New Jersey for trial on charges of kidnapping and murder. One of the most dramatic episodes in the story of the crime that perhaps more than any other shocked and aroused America, 25 year ago.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library