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Yankees win World Series for fifth straight Major League Baseball championship, 1953
Newsreel clip highlighting the New York Yankees' victory in the 1953 Baseball World Series over Brooklyn Dodgers (their fifth consecutive championship). Highlights from game two: Mickey Mantle of the Yankees hits a two-run homer off Preacher Roe to drive the Yankees to victory and put them up two games to none in the Series. Older woman bounces and cheers in stands. Game three: at Ebbets Field, Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella drives a home run to left field off Vic Raschi, Dodgers win. Fan in sunglasses cheers. Game four: Duke Snider (seen in closeups) hits double, home run and double to lead the Dodgers to victory and even up the Series at 2-2. Black, white Brooklyn fans cheer. Game five: Mickey Mantle (seen in closeup) hits a grand slam to squelch Dodger hopes. Game six: the Dodgers' Carl Furillo hits a two-run homer in the ninth inning to tie the game, but the Yankees' Billy Martin singles up the middle in the bottom of the ninth to score Hank Bauer and win it for the Yankes. Fans cheer as Yankees celebrate on the field. (Note: The first World Series was held in 1903. So this was the 50th anniversary of that sporting event.)
General George Marshall receives the Nobel Peace Award for 1953 from Chairman of the prize committee.
General George Marshall receives the Nobel Peace Award for 1953 from Chairman of the prize committee. The occasion marred by a Red Communist demonstration from the gallery. People look back. General George Marshall receives the award.
Strikes and demonstrations on 16 and 17 June, 1953 in East Berlin by East German workers.
People on strikes and demonstrations in East Berlin, Germany. Also called the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany. People standing on top of buildings. Buildings and radio tower of RIAS (American Radio Station in Western Sector of Berlin) which was spreading news of the workers general strike. Motorcars pass by. East German demonstrators throw things into fire protesting excessive work schedules. People watch fire. Flames of fire. Sign at the border of East and West Berlin, warning "You are leaving the American Sector." More scenes of the protests in East Berlin, from other news sources. Rioters throw east German police uniforms out of a window toward a crowd. Soviet Russian Soviet army tanks and troops enter the areas of unrest. At TC: 01:48, two protestors are seen sliding an iron pipe into the tread of a tank. East German Leader, Walter Ulbricht at a podium, backed by a huge replica of a white dove, and, elswhere, standing with associates. East German communist organizations, including police, marching in attempts to dispel notions that East Germans are oppressed. Huge poster of German worker rejecting American Marshall Plan, with slogan, "Yankee Go Home." Light tank and armored car parked beside a building. Closeup of soldier gripping machine gun atop a tank. Army trucks and troops in center of a city square. Voice of America commentator broadcasting news of the events from the RIAS station in West Berlin.
Civil Air Patrol cadets meet Rogers Hornsby and Cincinnati Reds baseball players, 1953
International exchange CAP (Civil Air Patrol) cadets meet members of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team at Crosley Park in Cincinnati Ohio. CAP cadets from Netherlands talk to Reds manager and Hall of Fame second baseman Rogers Hornsby. Hornsby explains purpose of a baseball bat. Cadets watch infield practice, with #15 Rocky Bridges sliding into third base where #14 Grady Hatton is standing. Cadets crowd around batting cage while #24 Bob Borowski takes swings. Hornsby signs a baseball. Closeup of ball with Hornsby's signature. Closeup of 1953 Reds scorecard. Cadets sit in dugout, talking to Reds player.
Scenes of communist East German GDR rallies, then unrest in Uprising of 1953 and Hungarian Revolt of 1956
Civilians gather on streets of Berlin and celebrate the socialist DDR (GDR) government in East Germany around 1949 or soon after. Uniformed band plays during a ceremony in East Germany. The spectators and a group of uniformed party leaders stand, cheer, and clap. A east German teenage girl kisses the flag. Next scene shows unrest and protests with burning flags in the streets of Berlin, East Germany, during the Uprising of 1953. Crowd burns a flag and then tears at another flag to destroy it. Crowd marches in the street in protest. Scenes of Soviet tanks rolling. Next scene shows a protest rally during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Narrator mentions revolt in Poland also. Large number of civilians march on roads and cut the center emblem out of a East German flag during protest.
House destroyed in Atomic Test "Annie" on March 17, 1953, at Nevada Test Site
A house constructed 3,500 feet from "ground zero" at the Nevada Test Site being destroyed by the "Annie" test shot. The only source of light was the blast itself, detonated on March 17, 1953.
