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Mayor Willy Brandt meets with President Kennedy
Mayor of West Berlin Willy Brandt meets with President Kennedy / outside the White House side entrance, car containing Mayor Brandt pulls to a stop in front of a small crowd / pressmen with cameras crowd around the mayor / President...
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Khrushchev visiting East Berlin
Nikita Khrushchev touring East Berlin, shaking hands with military officials. Khrushchev visiting East Berlin on August 13, 1961 in Berlin, Germany (Footage by Getty Images)
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Ambassador Lodge speaks to Security Council regarding U2 spy plane accusation
Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr explains US interpretation of what happened in regard to the U2 spy plane to UN Security Council / 'a Soviet fighter pressed in from the seaward side and tried to force the plane off its course and into...
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Ambassador Lodge explains U2 spy plane course
In Security Council debate in New York, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr gives the lie to Soviet charges that the R-B-47 reconnaissance jet shot down by Red fighters was on a spy flight / He reveals the plane's flight was tracked by US...
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Balloons at former site of Berlin Wall
CLEAN: Exterior shots of metal poles marking the line of the old Berlin Wall and helium balloons ready to be released to mark the 25th anniversary of its demise on November 09, 2014 in Berlin, Germany.
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Berlin Wall: aerials over the city
/ aerials of Berlin streets and buildings / left over bombing damage is can be seen on some buildings / aerial of Reichstag. Berlin Wall: aerials over the city on August 31, 1962 in Berlin, Germany (Footage by Getty Images)
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Bombings during the Korean War
American planes marked with a circled W on tails / small bombs drop out of planes exploding on ground impact / aerial view of bombing devastation, fires and smoke / soldiers running past burning buildings / hilltop view of thick smoke in...
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Vice President Richard Nixon opens US Fair in Moscow
/ Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet chief Nikita Khrushchev escort each other into the United States Fair in Moscow / enter into a dome shaped building / Nixon cuts the opening ribbon as Khrushchev applauds / everyone shaking...
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The concrete blocks and barbed wire of the Berlin Wall divide the city between East Germany and West Germany.
The concrete blocks and barbed wire of the Berlin Wall divide the city between East Germany and West Germany.
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Berlin Wall starts to be built, guard defects
Crowd of soldiers standing in front of Brandenburg Gate / barbed wire attached to posts as the Berlin Wall is built / two men guiding large cement slab being lowered by crane / PAN from soldier leaning against wall to soldiers walking by...
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WA Dull city street, pan left to MCU Berlin wall with colourful graffiti 'Berlin', Berlin
WA Dull city street, pan left to MCU Berlin wall with colourful graffiti 'Berlin', Berlin
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Washington DC leads the country in conducting "Operation Alert," a civil defense drill regarding an atomic bomb attack
Title: "Washington Leads Nation in "Operation Alert 1955" superimposed over aerial of Pentagon / LS Pentagon across pond / aerial Pan parking lot and Pentagon / CU clock hanging from ceiling at 12:00 time / Pan men in office working at...
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Pres. Eisenhower meets with Indian ambassadors about China and with West German chancellor and ambassador about Adenauer's Moscow visit
Title card: "Top-Level Diplomacy Visitors to Our Shores" / "In Washington" superimposed over White House exterior / CU Indian Ambassador to the United Nations and Chief Indian Foreign Affairs Representative V. K. Krishna Menon and Indian...
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17-year-old Valery Lysikov defects to West Berlin
Title superimposed on a young Russian defector, "He chooses Freedom...Son of Soviet Flier Flees to West" / Seated teenaged defector Valery Lysikov with men in suit; he chats with an older man / Lysikov looks at vehicles while chewing gum...
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Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin is dead
Title Card: "Bulletin - Joseph Stalin Is Dead" // Moscow: LS Kremlin Wall in snow / MS building / VS people walking in street, reading newspapers, woman with baby / CU Joseph Stalin in military uniform, smiling slightly / MS Vyacheslav...
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Construction workers cement cinder blocks as they build the Berlin wall in Germany.
Construction workers cement cinder blocks as they build the Berlin wall in Germany.
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Anthony Eden speaks at English Speaking Union in London as the Palace of Nations in Geneva prepares for the Big Four Summit
Title: "Big Four -- World Looks to Geneva" superimposed over Palace of Nations in Geneva as Geneva prepares for Summit talks between the United States, Soviet Union, France, and Great Britain / high angle WS Geneva and Lake Geneva / CU...
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Soviet embassy in Washington, DC throws lavish party for 35th anniversary of the Russian Revolution
Title: "Washington -- Curtain Lifted for Party at Red Embassy" over black then superimposed over cake with hammer and sickle on it / MS EXT Soviet Embassy / MS Soviet flag flying on embassy / CU embassy plaque / high angle servers put...