Texas Hijacked Plane (Universal Newsreel, Aug 1961)

Description

The original release sheet reads: TEXAS HIJACKED PLANE A nine hour ordeal of terror in El Paso where a Continental Airlines jet is seized by a father and son who want to turn the plane ove to Fidel Castro. All but three of the passengers, who are held as hostages, are released, but the incident ends happily when the hijackers are subdued. BERLIN REFUGEES The flight to freedom from East to West Berlin continues despite threats to close all traffic between the sections of the city. TUNIS - BIZERTE REFUGEES The scars of battle are all over Bizerte and armed troops stand guard, prepared for any eventuality. The civilian population is on the move. For those who choose to remain, emergency supplies of food, bread and milk, are delivered by the truck load. IKE AND CHINESE PREMIER AT GETTYSBURG Chen Cheng, Vice-President and Premier of Nationalist China pays a courtesy call on President Eisenhower on the farm in Gettysburg. The Free Chinese leader is paying a return call on Ike who was a visitor to Taiwan during his last year in office. NEW TYPEWRITER ON DISPLAY IN NEW YORK A new electric machine does away with the typewriter carriage with a revolving drum that travels across the paper. It does everything but spell. SPORTS GYMNASTICS AT STUTTGART Gymnasts of seventeen nations put on a show of muscular coordination en masse. RAFT OUTING AT BERLIN Teen-age rock 'n rollers go on a water-borne hayride on a log raft down the Iser River. Crazy, man, Crazy!

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library