Mr. K’s Big Day — Red Carpet Welcome for No. 1 Red (Universal Newsreel, Sep 1959)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. MR. K’S BIG DAY — RED CARPET WELCOME FOR NO. 1 RED - An exuberant Nikita Khrushchev arrives at the nation’s capital to be received by President Eisenhower with full ceremonial honors as a chief of state, beginning a 13-day visit to this country that could momentously affect the course of the Cold War. After his non-stop flight from Moscow in a huge Soviet jet, Khrushchev exchanges pledges of peaceful aspirations with the President. Then Ike rides with Mr. and Mrs. Khrushchev in an open-top limousine through Washington to Blair House. The streets are lined with hundreds of thousands–curious and stiffly cordial, but undemonstrative. The heaviest security cordon ever mustered in peace-time lines the route, but there are no incidents to mar the occasion. From Blair House, the Soviet Premier goes to the White House for the first of several off-the-record and informal talks ranging over global problems. America and the world watch and wait as Khrushchev’s show continues–colorful, dramatic, and of monumental important.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library