View of the Venezuelan freighter 'Ansoategui' sailing to Brazil. Ship is hijacked by pro- Castro Communists in an attempt to embarrass President Romulo Betancourt on the eve of his visits to United States of America.
View of crowd at a airport near San Jose in Costa Rica. President John Kennedy emerges from a helicopter and receives a tumultuous welcome from crowd in San Jose and is greeted by Costa Rican President Francisco Orlich. Nearly everybody in San Jose turn out to cheer President Kennedy. President making a speech. President Kennedy enters National Theatre with other dignitaries where first session of the conference with Heads of six Central American Nations is held. New measures to meet subversive aggression from Cuba are decided. President Kennedy at University of Costa Rica cheered by huge crowd and pledges new aid for economic development in both Central and South America.
Thaw causes landslide to cut the village in two parts in Japan and pushes a passenger express into the sea. Dirt and rocks crush many houses in village. People on railway track and near damaged houses. Electric pole lying on snow. Japanese troops and volunteers examine the damaged train and houses.
View of mountains in Gangtok, Sikkim, India. View of guests from other countries arriving, including United States Ambassador to India John Galbraith. Maharajah Chogyal Tashi Namgyal, father of Prince Palden Thondup Namgyal, arrives to attend the wedding of his son. A lama bows to the couple. View of Prince Palden Thondup Namgyal and Hope Cooke as lamas put scarves around their neck in wedding ceremony. Prince and Princess of Sikkim arriving at the Palace.
Nikita Khrushchev visits East Berlin during the Cold War. View of cameramen at Checkpoint Charlie (Friedrichstraße 43-45, 10117 Berlin, Germany) of the Berlin Wall. A cameraman puts on a Khrushchev's mask. Chairman Nikita Khrushchev arrives at Berlin Wall with other dignitaries; his position is that it protects the East Germans against imperialists who have designs on East Germany. Chairman Khrushchev posing for the camera.
The canonization ceremony of Saint Vincent Pallotti at Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Italy. A portrait of Saint Vincent Pallotti. Pope John XXIII arrives and conducts the ceremony where the Roman Catholic Church proclaims Vincent Pallotti, a 19th Century priest who founded an order responsible for saving thousands of Jews during World War II, a saint.
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