Reactions of Czech people on death of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The exteriors of Soviet Embassy. A long line of people carrying flowers and wreaths entering Soviet Embassy. People place the wreaths near bust of Joseph Stalin.
Reactions of Czech people on death of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Black flag on a building. People placing wreaths and flowers at the statue of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. A flaming torchlight.
May Day Parade in Red Square of Moscow. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, Soviet politician Georgi Malenkov, Soviet Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) Lavrentiy Beria, President of Soviet Union Nikolai Shvernik, Marshal Semen Budenny, and Lieutenant-General Dimitar Nikolov Popov review the May Day Parade. Signs and banners held by a crowd. A large crowd marching.
Post May-Day parade celebration in Moscow. Children enjoy various rides at an amusement park. A post-parade celebration follows with a carnival, dancing and fireworks.
Marshal Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia arrives in the United Kingdom. Tito disembarks from his yacht Galeb (Seagull) to a smaller ship on the Thames River. He is greeted by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Minister Anthony Eden. Explosion of a photographer’s magnesium flare near 10 Downing Street. Churchill and Tito inside 10 Downing Street. They pose and shake hands.
A bomb explodes on aircraft carrier USS Oriskany (CV/CVA-34) underway at sea off the coast of Korea. An aircraft takes off from the carrier. The F4U Corsair lands and a general-purpose bomb is released accidentally while landing. The bomb explodes and several men including the cameraman (Thomas McGrath) who was taking photographs are killed.
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