Newsreel titled 'Snow king pays visit to national capital' shows thick snow over trees and roads around United States Capitol in Washington D.C due to blizzard. Snow covered parks in New York as a horse driven sledge passes by the road. A snow covered mosque in Constantinople.
President John Kennedy presents Space Agency's Distinguished Service Medal to Major Gordon Cooper at White House. View of crowd clapping. Major Cooper parades to Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol with many cars following. Crowd cheering on sideways. Major Cooper addresses a Joint Session of Congress and receives a two-minute standing ovation. Major Cooper in New York City for his reception. Lower Broadway is re-named Mercury Way for his reception. Huge crowd around 4,500,000 people line up the streets to see Major Cooper passing and throwing tickertapes and paper on his arrival. After a reception at City Hall, Major Cooper receives the City's Medal of Honor.
Map shows distance is 4662 miles from New York to Moscow or St. Petersburg, Russia. Map shows that it is 340 miles further from Moscow to the Eastern edge of the Soviet Union. Views of the fountain and gardens at the Palace of Peter, the Great, and brief view of the Palace building. View of a Russian church building.
New York Yankees baseball team in spring training. Players fast-walk onto field, pick up baseball bats. Brief close up of Yankees manager Joe McCarthy. Long shot of players catching and throwing baseballs, including #21 Spud Chandler and #24 Ivy Andrews. Shot of longtime Yankees shortstop and coach Frankie Crosetti (#1) throwing. Shot of Yankees pitcher and Hall of Famer Red Ruffing (with dimple on chin). Overhead view of exhibition game.
Host Frank Knight in a television program Longines Chronoscope. Baseball game played at Yankee stadium in New York. Longines clock on the top of a scoreboard. Frank Knight talks about the accuracy of Longines watches.
Crowd stands in front of courthouse in New York City. Taxis and other cars are parked on the roads in front of the skyscraper. Lawyer George Levy, of Nassau Trotting Association, being interviewed and photographed, on courthouse steps. Frank Erickson, bookmaker for Frank Costello, leaves courthouse, with several others, after testifying before the Kefauver Committee. They are photographed by cameramen. Frank Erickson, followed by a companion, enters a 1947 Chrysler Crown Imperial Limousine, which drives away with them in the back seat. A momentary glimpse of Frank Costello, with several others in the hall of the courthouse.
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