| Eisenhower Wins 1952 Election | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 64 |
| Catalog #: | 312849 | |
| Clip Number: | 312849-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 52/91 I | |
| Timecode: | 11:16:12 - 11:19:41 | |
| Location: | United States of America | |
| Year Shot: | 1952 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ELECTIONS: Results ELECTIONS: Voting LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA PERSONALITIES: Eisenhower, Dwight (Ike) PERSONALITIES: Kefauver, Estes PERSONALITIES: Kennedy, John F ( JFK ) PERSONALITIES: McCarthy, Joseph PERSONALITIES: Nixon, Richard M. | |
| Description: | Master 64 Part 2 Same as catalog # 312801. See also catalog # 219054, 219055. "Ike Wins!" United States of America. Opens with Pathe News title card describing "...the excitement and tension of the year's biggest news story." Inside Democratic headquarters with LS of podium behind which hang Old Glory, an election returns board, and a picture of Adlai Stevenson. A tilting shot of a man on a ladder working on the election returns board. Switch to Republican headquarters with a LS of Eisenhower greeting enthusiastic supporters. Electric sign along downtown building reads "Eisenhower Leading In 29 States/Stevenson Ahead In 14." Shot of President Harry Truman with back turned at voting booth and also one posing at ballot box. MS--people walking up steps into building. MS--line at election judges. One shot of woman closing curtain behind her at voting booth/one of a man. Two empty baby carriages outside door with sign "Board of Election Meets Here." MS of man tending baby carriage and reading something. CU of license plate frame reading "Huntsville, Ala./Home of Sen. John Sparkman/Our Next 'Veep'." Shot of Sparkman's back entering booth. Shot of Ike and wife, Mamie, voting. Three scenes of voters across country. CU of document election judge is working on. Man sticks head out from under curtian at booth. Richard and Pat Nixon emerge from voting booths in California. Long line outside school building. LS of three workers tending election returns board. LS of Eisenhower addressing room full of supporters at Connaught Hotel in New York: "If during the course of the evening I get to come before you again to bring a word of greeting..." CU of a solemn Sen. Estes Kefauver. MS of Democratic Chairman Mitchell: "Any talk about concession will not come from me." MS Sen. Benton (CN)/loser. MS William Purtell, winner, unseats Benton. MS and CU Prescott Bush/winner--uncanny resemblance to his son President George Bush. MS Sen. Irving Ives (NY)--man on left--retains seat. MS and CU John F. Kennedy (MS) defeats Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (MS). MS Sen. Edward Martin (PA)/winner. CU Sen. Harry Byrd (VA)/winner. Sen. Alvin W. Barkley (KY)/loser. MS Gov. Schivers (TX). CU Senator Joesph McCarthy (WI)/winner. MS Sen. John W. Bricker (OH)/winner. MS Senator Robert Taft (OH) seated by radio. Election, Voters, Voting. | |
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