1955 air disasters in the United States. Wreckage of United Air Lines Flight 629, a Douglas DC-6B aircraft (N37559, Mainliner Denver) that was blown up over Longmont, Colorado on November 1, 1955, by a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage. The crash site of United Air Lines Flight, a Douglas DC-4 propline (N30062), in Medicine Bow Peak, near Laramie, Wyoming. Dead bodies carried out from wrecked plane. Crowd watches.
United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower tours the United Kingdom. President Eisenhower gets off a United States Military Air Transport Service (MATS) aircraft at London Airport, present day London Heathrow Airport (Longford TW6, United Kingdom). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan and other officers receives Eisenhower at the airport. A large crowd of British civilians waves at the President. Honor guards lined. President tours the city in a motorcade. Civilians stand on either side of the streets to greet him. View of Balmoral Castle (Balmoral Estates, Ballater AB35 5TB, UK). Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret receives President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan.
Battleships of U.S. Division nine, seen dimly,in fog in the Firth of Forth, Scotland after World War I. At first, nothing is moving and water is glassy smooth. Smoke rising from stack of one Batleship. View of the Turkish battlecruiser TCG Yavuz. A flushdeck destroyer seen dimly in the fog. A British aircraft carrier with airplane poised on a catapult. Several views of U.S. battleships sitting still in the fog.
United States President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy Reagan, visits the United Kingdom. Queen Elizabeth II welcomes them at Windsor Castle (Windsor SL4 1NJ, United Kingdom). President Reagan, Queen Elizabeth II and their spouses Nancy Reagan and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, watch the Queen’s Guards marching. President Reagan and Queen Elizabeth ride horses early the next morning. View of the Palace of Westminster (London SW1A 0AA, United Kingdom) as seen from across the Thames River. President Reagan gives a speech to both houses of parliament in London, the first American to ever do so. In his speech, he challenges the Soviets to allow him to address them in a television broadcast in exchange for the same in America.
The fourth presidential election debate held between Democratic nominee Senator John F. Kennedy and Republican nominee U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon in New York, United States on 21st October 1960. ABC News correspondent Quincy Howe speaks during the debate and allows NBC correspondent John Chancellor to pose a question to Richard Nixon a . Correspondent Chancellor asks a question about Quemoy and Matsu issue. Vice President Nixon points out inconsistency of Senator Kennedy. He further explains it by saying that Senator Kennedy signed a resolution in 1955 which gave the president the power to use United States forces to defend Formosa (Taiwan) and offshore islands. But he also voted for an amendment which was lost, an amendment which would have drawn a line and left out those islands. Vice President Nixon supports President Eisenhower's position. Correspondent Howe asks Senator Kennedy to comment on the topic. He speaks about President Eisenhower sending a mission to persuade Chiang Kai-shek in the spring of 1955 to withdraw from Quemoy and Matsu because they were exposed. The President was unsuccessful. He refers to the fact that in 1958, as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he was very familiar with the position that the United States took in negotiating with Communist China (PRC) on these two islands. He further that the U.S. was unable to persuade China's Chiang Kai-Shek to withdraw and thus it was decided by the U.S. to defend the islands.
Crowds gathered in Trafalgar Square (Trafalgar Sq, London WC2N 5DS, United Kingdom) in London, at night, to hear results of the 1924 United Kingdom general election. Groups cheer favorite candidates' elections are announced. Mounted policemen keep order. A double-decker bus and an automobile move slowly along the street near the crowd. First, light rain is falling. So many people carry umbrellas. Later, the rain stopped. Men setting up powerful "sunlight arc lamps" to illuminate other crowded streets for cameramen. View of the crowds illuminated by the arc lamps. A bus passes displaying a large advertisement for the show "Leap Year" playing at the London Hippodrome (Cranbourn Street, Leicester Square, WC2H 7JH London, United Kingdom).
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