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U.S. President John F. Kennedy and former President Eisenhower confer on the Cuban Crisis at Camp David, Maryland.

John F Kennedy confers with Dwight D Eisenhower on the Cuban Crisis at Camp David, Maryland. John F Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, arrives by a helicopter. Dwight D Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States, also arrives by air. The two Presidents greet each other. Photographers click their photos. They walk towards a house for a conference. Other officers stand behind them. They get into a car and move.

Date: 1961, April 29
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055696
Minnesota Twins play first baseball game in new city, April 1961

Newsreel clip on Minnesota welcoming major league baseball to the state in April 1961. Exterior views of Metropolitan Stadium, the home of the new Minnesota Twins. Banner reads "The Minnesota Twins Welcome You." Announcer notes team is playing in Bloomington, seven miles from each of the state's two major cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul. View of 25,000 spectators, most bundled up for a chilly day, inside stadium for the home opener against the Washington Senators. Those on hand include baseball commissioner Ford Frick, American League president Joe Cronin, and Minnesota Governor Elmer Andersen. Announcer notes the previous Washington team moved to Minnesota and was replaced with a new Senators team in Washington. Dignitaries walk on field trailed by Minnesota manager Cookie Lavagetto and Washington manager Mickey Vernon. Dignitaries raise the American flag. Governor Andersen kisses a baseball and throws out the ceremonial first pitch. Announcer notes Twins lost this game, but says "Who cares?" because Minnesota is in the big leagues.

Date: 1961, April 21
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055698
11th annual Barrel-Jumping competition, on ice, at Grossinger's Resort in the Catskill Mountains of New York State

Seventeen of the world's best ice skating barrel jumpers compete in the 11th annual competition at Grossinger's Catskill Resort in the Catskill Mountains of New York near the village of Liberty. Skaters are seen circling the ice rink to gain speed, and jumping over lines of barrels. Scenes of jumpers failing to clear all the barrels in their attempts. Only 3 contenders manage to clear 15 barrels. Only one, Jim Waldo, of Portland, Oregon, is seen successfully clearing 16 barrels to win the event. He receives his trophy from New York Yankees Baseball team's star catcher, Yogi Berra.

Date: 1961, January 9
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055703
Functioning of walkie talkie being explained to the doctors and the nurses at a hospital in San Francisco.

The use of walkie talkie hand held two way radios at a hospital in San Francisco, California. A man explains the functioning of the walkie talkie radios to the doctors and the nurses. Operator seated at the switch board. A doctor receives a reporting signal from the early model pager, via a beep, and can hear information from the switchboard operator and respond. A mother hears the wails of her new born baby through the walkie talkie as it serves the role of early baby monitor.

Date: 1956, May 21
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055719
Racehorse Nashua with jockey Eddie Arcaro wins the Camden Stakes race at the Camden stakes park in Camden, New Jersey.

Camden Stakes in Camden, New Jersey. Large crowd of spectators gathered at the race course. Bidders and spectators cheer for racehorse Nashua. Nashua with jockey Eddie Arcaro wins the race and a prize money of $22,000.

Date: 1956, May 21
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055721
Britain's top racing driver Stirling Moss drives the experimental MG at the Bonneville Flats in Utah, United States.

Stirling Moss drives the experimental MG at the Bonneville Flats in Utah, United States. Stirling Moss, Britain's top racing driver wears helmet and gets into MG car. He drives the experimental MG. Operators at the electronic timing device as they take the speed records.

Date: 1957
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055739