Around time of partition of India into separate states of India and Pakistan. Independence ceremonies in Asia. Governor-General of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah along with other officials arrives in a car in Pakistan. People wave. The Pakistani flag flying atop a flag pole. A large crowd gathered on a street in India. Buildings along the street sides. Mounted Sikhs in parade. People stand holding banners. Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru gets off a car. He addresses people. The Indian flag flying atop a flag pole. Mounted Indian police drive back the crowd. A great crowd in front of a palace.
Scenes from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956: A revolution against the Stalinist government in 1956 in Hungary. Aerial view of Budapest in 1956. Communist leader Mátyás Rákosi addressing a crowd in a public square. Rakosi not yet challenged by uprising. Hungarian Revolution demonstrators on roads and at government buildings in Budapest. Students and writers assembled in October 1956 in solidarity with the recently successful anti-Stalinist uprising in Poland. The police fire at revolutionaries. Fighting in streets as secret police combat revolutionaries.
A factory in Pakistan. Exteriors of a factory in Pakistan. Pakistani President Ayub Khan and other government officials arrive at the factory. They greet the owner and then view the factory in operation. Men work on machines inside the factory, stamping metal parts and assembling small parts. Officials inspect the factory. Men work on various machines.
Religious riots in East Pakistan in 1963. Buildings burn and smoke rising from buildings. Wounded and dead in the streets during religious riots in East Pakistan. People climb on a train and stand near railway tracks. Ruins of buildings. People and cow carts move past in streets.
SEATO (Southeast Asian Treaty Organization) in Pakistan. Members of the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization strengthen their ties within collective security organizations. They pledge support to Pakistan in territorial disputes with India and re-affirm their common stand against Russian aggression. Dignitaries speak into microphone during the meeting.
The 1956 National Convention of the Democratic Party at the International Amphitheatre (4220 South Halsted Street Chicago, Illinois 60609 United States) in Chicago, Illinois. Former President Harry S. Truman and his wife Bess, taking seats at the convention. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, taking her seat. Democratic Party National Chairman, Paul M. Butler standing behind and below the podium as convention prepares to get underway. The amphitheater is filled with seated delegates, as they are called to order. Delegates standing and applauding, following the keynote speech of Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee, who touches the Tennessee delegate identification pole as it is thrust toward him. Delegates waving poles displaying their respective State names.