| France Rocked By Army Coup In Algeria | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1647 |
| Catalog #: | 355570 | |
| Clip Number: | 355570-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 031-039-03 | |
| Timecode: | 00:43:34 - 00:44:52 | |
| Location: | Algiers, Algeria | |
| Year Shot: | 1958 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Colonialism LOCATIONS/AFRICA: Algeria, Algiers RIOTS: Political WAR & CONFLICT: Revolution, Algerian War of Independence 1954 - 1962 | |
| Description: | A general strike by french settlers in Algeria and mob rioting protesting the proposed Pflimlin government culminates in an army coup. A junta led by General Jacques Massu seizes power. To many colonials who oppose any moderate settlement with Moslem rebels look to Massu their spokesman. And by the tens of thousands they run riot through Algiers sacking the United States information agency and official buildings. A bitter product of a costly 43 month old rebellion without an end in sight and a chronic political crisis in Paris. This was the 28th day without a Premier in office. At Government House at Algiers even while the Junta was taken over the mobs searched through the crowds and the buildings finely 30 thousand massed outside to hear Massu launch a political thunderbolt. Calling on General De Gaulle to return to political power over all of France. An overhead shot of Algeria. MS - Throngs protesting, one banner reads Banners written in French. MS - A military Junta seizing control in Algiers. CUS - Military man wearing a beret, General Jacque Massu?. MS - People in the streets turning into a mob shaking a iron gate, standing on top of cars. MS - The Government House in Algiers, people climbing ropes up the side of the building MLS - A crowd of people standing on top of a balcony's roof. MS - Looking through a closed steel gate, a mess of paper and soldiers walking a round. | |
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