President Discusses "Skybolt" Decision (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1962)

Description

The original release sheet reads: PRESIDENT DISCUSSES "SKYBOLT" DECISION At his news conference Mr. Kennedy says that the air-to-ground missile, the "Skybolt" has failed in five tests and may be abandoned. Britain is opposed to this for they are counting on it for their nuclear defense. The President also touches on the rash of spoofs of the Kennedy family. NEWSPAPER STRIKE BLACKOUTS NEW YORK NEWS New Yorkers who normally buy six million newspapers a day are without any of their nine major publications in a dispute between the publishers and seven craft unions. Out-of-town newspapers go like hot cakes but merchants are suffering through the lack of advertising. "FREUD" HAS PREMIERE IN NEW YORK The story of the young Viennese Doctor who was the first to probe the human subsonscious has its first showing to wide acclaim. Starring Montgomery Clift, "FREUD" is a milestone in daring film biography. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO A major disaster is averted in Los Angeles as a 2,000,000 dirt slide is halted. On the other side of the nation the Potomac River was on a rampage in Maryland. Mussolini addressed a rally to mark the 15th Anniversary of his rise to power. A few years later he was lynched. In the pre-jet age the Army had a fighter lane that was a phenomenon of its time. General John J. Pershing returned from a European trip. An inventor in Portland, Oregon, invented a hook for police cars to capture fleeing speeders.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library