Destruction due to avalanches in Northern Italy. Snow covered buildings and huts. People remove snow with spades. People remove snow from a damaged house. Heavy snow on the ground and houses. People struggle to clear it and search for avalanche survivors. From a March 12, 1959 newsreel featuring events from 25 years earlier.
World's Three Cushion Championship in billiards (pool). Welker Cochrane and Johnny Layton play a billiards game. They shake hands. Johnny Layton wins the match. He gets prize. The champion medal. From a March 12, 1959 newsreel featuring events from 25 years earlier.
Bicyclists participate in the annual Six Day Bike race held in New York City's Madison Square Garden arena. Bikers ride on track. A participant gets a shave during a break in the multi-day event. Australian Velodrome champion Reggie McNamara eats food during a break. A biker falls and a man runs towards him. Race in progress. Bikers collide; a fallen biker lays on the side of the track. From a March 12, 1959 newsreel featuring events from 25 years earlier.
King Alexander of Yugoslavia shot down in Marseilles, France. On his state visit to France, the king was greeted by the French foreign Minister Louis Barthou. King Alexander and Louis Barthou seated in a car moves along the streets of Marseilles. People gather to greet them. King and the Foreign Minister were shot down by a killer. Buildings along the sides of the street. People running on the street. The assassin is grabbed and beaten by police. Dead body of King Alexander beside the car. Finishes with a scene of the new monarch in Yugoslavia, eleven year old King Peter II, eating a plate of food and smiling for the camera.
German carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann arrested in United States. Hauptmann suspected of the kidnapping of the son of American aviator Charles Lindbergh. A trail of marked ransom bills leads to his arrest. Exterior of a house. Men inspecting the ransom bills and other proofs and evidence.
Riots due to Stavisky scandal in Paris, France. Exterior of a building. Soldiers on horses moving around the building. Mob gather and a riot breaks out against the political corruption disclosed by the Stavisky scandal.
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