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Events related to Cuban Missile Crisis: Cuban revolution in 1959; Khrushchev and Castro in 1960; Soviet missiles withdrawn 1962
Cheering Cuban crowds seen celebrating Fidel Castro's successful overthrow of Batista, in 1959, in Havana, Cuba. Fidel Castro with Nikita Khrushchev outside Hotel Theresa in Harlem, New York City, before meetings at the United Nations building in New York City, during the opening of the 15th General Assembly (September 19, 1960). View of Castro walking in front of UN building entrance. View of Soviet Navy ships carrying missiles from Cuba, back to the Soviet Union, in 1962. Nikita Khrushchev gesturing and talking outside a building. Newspaper photograph of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko conversing with U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who is seated in his rocking chair at the White House.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek salutes officers lined up on deck of U.S. Navy USS Swordfish, and leaves for Keelung in Taiwan.
U.S. Navy USS Swordfish with the President of Republic of China General Chiang Kai-shek, leaves for Keelung, Taiwan. Side boys stand at attention. U.S. 7th fleet Vice Admiral Charles D. Griffin arrives aboard USS Swordfish while the submarine is at a dock. Vice Admiral Charles and a U.S. officer stand at attention. Chinese Major General Hu Shu-kuang boards USS Swordfish after passing through ranks of side boys on the dock. A car arrives with the President of Republic of China General Chiang Kai-shek. General Chiang gets out of the car. The President salutes and looks towards the submarine. General Chiang Kai-shek with Hu Shu-kuang following behind as they board USS Swordfish. General Chiang Kai-Shek salutes various officers lined up on the deck of the submarine. General is greeted by Vice Admiral Griffin, Vice Admiral Ronald N. Smoot Commander of the U.S. Taiwan Defense Command, Major General L. I. Doan Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group in Taiwan, and Mr. Joseph A. Yager of the U.S. Embassy. The General steps into a hatchway leading into the conning tower, followed by Hu Shu-kuang and other officers.
Tainan, Formosa (Taiwan) under Japanese colonial administration.
Views of Tainan, Taiwan under Japanese colonial administration. Steam locomotive pulling train, glides into railroad station in Tainan, Taiwan. People on platform near another track, step down and cross it to board from trackside, as others board from proper platform. Next is shown the front of the train station, in old town square. Palm trees grow in grass area. Pedestrians, a few vehicles, and a man pulling a cart are seen. Scene shifts to wide street with multistory buildings having shops on the ground floor. A woman pushes a baby in a carriage. A man pulls a wagon piled high with some kind of commercial product. Scene shifts to the Japanese Tainan shrine. Next a scenic park and lake are seen with a family dressed as Japanese, walking on the lawn. Another park-like scene shows a couple in Japanese attire, with their child, accompanied by two other similarly dressed women. Closeup of Taiwanese pottery items. A stone sculpture of a horse. View of the the Taiwan Confucius Temple aka the Scholarly Temple. Ruins of old Dutch Fort Zeelandia in Anping, Tainan, with ancient gun barrels layed out on porch floor. A tree is growing through the stone floor. Several sampans are seen being skillfully rowed in the water by boatmen in conical straw hats. Closeups of wooden boat sterns decorated with paintings. Children running along the waterfront past docked sampans. Views of memorial stones in the Anping cemetery. Workers skiming salt from evaporation ponds and placing containers of salt on small open rail cars. Closeup of containers that workers use to transport salt. Closups of rock salt. Views from moving railroad train moving across landscape. View from rear of speeding train, showing long straight track behind.
Soviet achievements in space race in 1959; NASA Astronauts trained for space flight in United States.
President Dwight D Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev shake hands in the White House during Khrushchev's visit in America, soon after recent Soviet advances in the "space race." Closeup images of the moon, and of images of far side of the moon recorded by Soviets, and also brief Soviet Russian science fiction animated scenes depicting space ships traveling toward the moon, and another space ship vessel in orbit near the moon. In United States two monkeys are shown, named Able and Baker who were part of rocket testing before human flights took place. View of a monkey strapped into a Jupiter rocket and launch is shown of a Jupiter rocket with the monkeys for their space flight. Seven astronauts of the Project Mercury program are shown in training in a weightless, or zero gravity chamber.
Defecting, former Chinese prisoners reach Incheon harbor during trip to Taiwan.
Liberated Chinese prisoners from Korean War prison camps, getting onto U.S. trucks to reach Incheon harbor in Seoul, en route to Taiwan where they are defecting from Communist China. They were known as "Anti-communist Heroes." The United Nations Transportation Corps and the United Nations officials take care of transportation process. Chinese Ambassador to Korea and other officials bid farewell to the Chinese prisoners. Trucks loaded with Chinese prisoners move along road. Chinese prisoners hold flags on trucks. Trucks stop in between before reaching Incheon. Prisoners have soup. Trucks loaded with prisoners begin the journey. Incheon city streets decorated to welcome Chinese Prisoners. South Korean civilians line up streets. Chinese prisoners greeted by 47th Overseas Chinese Organization members and the United Nations band. Crowd with flags and banners welcomes the Chinese prisoners. Chinese opera with people in colorful dresses. Freed Chinese prisoners march in Incheon harbor. Chinese prisoners holding the Chinese flags march along pier. Crowd cheers at harbor. Stick points out sea route from Incheon to Taipei, Taiwan. Convoy of warships and planes escorts liberated Chinese prisoners heading to new life in Taiwan, Republic of China (ROC).
Ceremonies for Chinese prisoners (People's Republic of China) after returning to Taipei from Korean prison camps.
Chinese prisoners (People's Republic of China) after arriving in Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan) from Korean prison camps. Chinese prisoners enter barracks. Correspondents from foreign countries take pictures of arriving prisoners. Prisoners interviewed by correspondents. Bodies of prisoners tattooed with anticommunist slogans and symbols. Correspondents take pictures. Provisional Governor of Taiwan Yen Chia-kan arrives with General Chiang Ching-Kuo to convey official greetings to Chinese prisoners. A prisoner puts a badge on General Chiang Ching-Kuo. Women leader conveys a message from Madame Chiang Kai-Shek. Various Chinese officials address Chinese prisoners. Prisoners give salutes to official after receiving gifts. Prisoner badges an official. A flag is presented to the official. Taiwan movie stars sing for the Chinese prisoners. Men and women play harmonicas. Chinese prisoners play drums and trumpets. Other prisoners applaud. General Chiang Ching-Kuo speaks out the names of the prisoners from list in his hands. Prisoners raise arms. Final ceremonies for the Chinese prisoners. Chinese official hands over envelopes to the men. Chinese prisoners cheer in front of the Presidential mansion in Taipei. Men wave flags and cheer.
