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People remove snow from roads and drives using shovels, and children play after heavy snow storms in the United States.

Activities after heavy snow storms in the United States. In Kansas City, Missouri people remove snow from the roads and drives using shovels after a 21 inch snow storm. Cars covered with snow and ice. In Chicago a man clears a path after a 6 inch snow and temperatures near zero. Cars covered with ice and snow. Children play with snow in San Francisco after the city receives an unusual snow storm.

Date: 1962, January 22
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055884
Wilma Goldean Rudolph loses the women's 100 yard race at the annual indoor track and field meet in California.

The annual indoor track and field meet in California. The women's 100 yard dash begins. American athlete, Wilma Goldean Rudolph loses the race by 7 seconds. The men's 60 yard dash begins. Spectators cheer the athletes. Frank Budd of Villanova wins the race. In the mile race Jim Beatty of Los Angles wins the race against French athlete Michel Jazy.

Date: 1962, January 22
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055885
Anston Samuelsten wins the National Skiing Championship against Steve Rieschi at Norge Ski Club in Fox River Grove, Illinois.

The National Skiing Championship at the Norge Ski Club in Fox River Grove, Illinois. The skiing championship begins. Steve Rieschi of Colorado jumps a leap of 184 feet. Spectators cheer the jumpers. Another jumper from Norway Anston Samuelsten jumps a leap of 194 feet. Anston wins the championship against Steve.

Date: 1962, January 22
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055886
The United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold killed in a plane crash during a peace mission to Congo, Africa.

The United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld killed in a plane crash during a peace mission to Congo, Africa. Dag Hammarskjöld disembarks from a plane for the peace mission. He reviews honor guard of the UN peace keeping forces. The Former Secretary General U-Thant administers the oath taking of Dag Hammarskjöld during a ceremony at the United Nations Headquarters (405 E 45th St, New York, NY 10017, United States) in New York City.

Date: 1962, January 1
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056467
A large number of refugees flee East Berlin under the regime of Communist rule and reach West Berlin, in Germany.

Many refugees flee East Berlin under the regime of Communist rule and reach West Berlin, in Germany. Many refugees walk near the Brandenburg Gate. Bernauer Strasse near the Berlin Wall. Russian and East German soldiers guard the Berlin Wall line of demarcation between East and West Berlin. Families communicate across the line and relatives weep. A young girl weeps as she views relatives across the divided east and west Germany. A wedding bride waves to her parents in East Germany. A woman (Frieda Schulz) is pulled at the same time from above by east German authorities, and by West German helpers from below as she jumps from the window of her home on Bernauer Strasse to escape into West Germany. Scenes of several successful escapes by East Germans through barbed wire at the border, as they reach the hands of waiting helpers in West Germany.

Date: 1962, January 1
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056469
United States President John F. Kennedy addresses the UN General Assembly after death of Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash.

United States President John F. Kennedy addresses the United Nations General Assembly after the sudden death of the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane accident, during his peace mission to Congo in Africa. The United Nations Headquarters (405 E 45th St, New York, NY 10017, United States) in New York City. Kennedy from the speaker's podium speaks about the need for a peaceful world and points out the tensions due to actions of Soviet Union, all over the world. Kennedy says "Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain...together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames."

Date: 1962, January 1
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675056470