President Hosts Foreign Students (Universal Newsreel, May 1961)

Description

The original release sheet reads: PRESIDENT HOSTS FOREIGN STUDENTS There's a foreign invasion at the White Housev - but they're all our good friends. Foreign students, 1,000 of them, are guests of President Kennedy. From the balcony, Caroline has a 3-year-old's view of the affair and supervises things handily. The President calls on the students to make a close study of our free society. NEW YORK HAILS BOURGUIBA Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba gets a roaring ticker-tape welcome in New York. Thousands turn out to cheer him up Broadway to City Hall where he's received by Mayor Robert Wagner. POPE JOHN RECEIVES QUEEN ELIZABETH Queen Elizabeth of Britain visits with Pope John XXIII, the first reigning British monarch to call in 40 years. She's titular head of the Church of England and confers at length qwith the Pope. HUSSEIN AND BRIDE-TO-BE King Hussein of Jordan is to take a commoner as his bride. She's 20-year-old Toni Gardiner, daughter of a British Army Officer who has already become a Moslem. NEW PREMIER OF IRAN Premier Ali Amini is named by the Shah of Iran to rule by decree, [illegible] is dissolved in this pro-Western nation after [illegible] were shot while demonstrating for higher pay. HURRICANE IN FRANCE [Illegible] France's history follows our own [illegible]. The Normandy area is devastated [illegible] made homeless and farmlands ruined. MEMPHIS [Illegible] [Illegible] turn out in Memphis to [illegible]. Despite all of your synthentic [illegible] crop in the South and [illegible] .

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library