Max Schmeling, with a swollen eye, smiles at a press conference after defeating Joe Louis in a 1936 boxing match. Boxer Max Schmeling speaks on microphone and talks with a man on his side. He jokingly delivers a light punch to the man's face. From a May 1961 newsreel recounting events 25 years before.
A woman types on the new IBM Selectric electric typewriter in New York. The typeball in the typewriter moves while typing. Woman replaces the ball with another one. The woman types on page speedily as slow motion views of the IBM Selectric typeball are shown.
Fidel Castro visits New York City, April 15, 1959, and gives a speech to large crowd in New York's Central Park. Back in Cuba, revolutionaries show officials and members of the press, a prison cell and injuries suffered by a former prisoner. They display instruments of torture used by the Batista regime. Colonel Cornelio Rojas, Chief of Police in Santa Clara, is seen in jail cell. He is walked under guard by revolutionaries and stands against a wall before a firing squad who execute him on orders of Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Revolutionaries bringing charges against Batista officials. People testify against them. Accused Lieutenant Enrique Despaigne Noret appears before a judgment panel. He is later seen, handcuffed, stepping from a vehicle at San Juan Hill,Santiago de Cuba, January 12, 1959. He stands before a firing squad and is allowed to write something on a paper. He is then shot and falls into a ditch or grave behind him.
Military recruitment and draft: Young men registering and answering questions at Flushing High School and Haaren High School in New York. Clerks filling out draft papers and issuing cards. Card being held by registrant. Men entering and leaving the High School. Sign above doorway "Registration for the Draft". One man pauses at a doorway to look at his new card.
Academic procession entering the Butler Library during declaration of Dwight D Eisenhower as 13th President of Columbia University in New York. General Alfred E Grunther, General Carl Spatz, Admiral Thomas C Kinkaid, General Hoyt Vandenberg, General James H Doolittle. Admiral William D Leahy, General Omar N Bradley and Secretary William Stuart Symington. Eisenhower's wife with son and daughter-in-law. Eisenhower's wife and son. President Dwight D Eisenhower and unidentified academician on the way to Library after installation.
People during Benediction, as Dwight D Eisenhower becomes the 13th President of Columbia University in New York. Guests seated in front of the memorial library. Spectators singing. Scene of crowd. Scenes of various buildings of the University.
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