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A delegate speaks on the Communist Coup of February 1948 in Czechoslovakia at a UN Security Council session in Lake Success.

A United Nations Security Council session held in Lake Success, New York during the Cold War. Representatives of different nations are seated. One delegate takes his seat and speaks about the Communist Coup of February 1948 in Czechoslovakia and Czech refugees.

Date: 1948, May 25
Duration: 5 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070158
Warren Austin states in Lake Success that the UN Security Council should consider charges laid upon the Soviet Union.

A United Nations Security Council session held in Lake Success, New York during the Cold War. Representatives of different nations are seated. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Warren Austin and Britain's representative to the UN Alexander Cadogan seated next to each other. Warren Austin states that the Soviet Union has turned the good people of Czechoslovakia into slaves. He says that the system of democracy in Czechoslovakia is threatened, and the freedom of holding and acquiring property has been destroyed. He further states that the Security Council should consider the charges laid upon the Soviet Union which are charges of indirect aggression in Czechoslovakia.

Date: 1948, May 25
Duration: 3 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070160
At a UN Security Council session held in Lake Success, Alexander Cadogan speaks about a truce between Palestine and Britain.

A United Nations Security Council session held in Lake Success, New York during the Cold War. Representatives of different nations are seated. Britain's representative to the UN Alexander Cadogan speaks about a truce between Palestine and Britain after the formation of the state of Israel. He speaks about withdrawal of British troops from Palestine. Soviet Union's representative on the United Nations Security Council Andrei Gromyko sitting next to Cadogan.

Date: 1948, May 25
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070162
U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson asks a Soviet representative in the U.S. if his country is installing missiles in Cuba.

Events held in the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. United Nations building in New York. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson asks Soviet representative to the UN Valerian Zorin if his country was installing missiles in Cuba. Following Zorin's refusal to answer the abrupt question, Stevenson retorts, 'I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over'.

Date: 1962, October 25
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070175
Orson Welles speaks at a press conference following his "War of the World's" broadcast that created mass hysteria.

After a radio play in New York terrifies the nation. Thousands of radio listeners throughout the U.S. are frightened into mass hysteria by a dramatization of H. G. Wells' old thriller 'The War of the Worlds' as staged by Orson Welles, a young actor-manager. Orson Welles speaks at a press conference about the event. Media persons take notes during the press conference.

Date: 1938, October 31
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070522
U.S. rocket experimenters launch the world's first liquid fueled rocket in the United States.

Launching of first liquid fuel rocket on a Staten Island New York beach in 1933. U.S. rocket experimenters including George Edward Pendray launch the first liquid fuel missile. They prepare for launching of the rocket and fill fuel of rocket which is powered with gasoline and liquid oxygen. Missile being launched and its fuel tank explodes due to over heating. Rocket crashes down on beach. Experimenters stand with pieces of the broken rocket. From a November 10, 1958 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.

Date: 1933
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071118