| Gov. Nelson Rockefeller & Nixon groupies | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 385 |
| Catalog #: | 497092 | |
| Clip Number: | 497092-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | WPA 920 | |
| Timecode: | 01:29:52 - 01:32:36 | |
| Location: | New York | |
| Year Shot: | 1960 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ELECTIONS: Campaigns LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York PERSONALITIES: Rockefeller, Nelson POLITICS: United States | |
| Description: | First half of newsreel is MOS. EST shot Catholic cathedral; TLSs New York Governor and GOP presidential hopeful NELSON ROCKEFELLER and first wife MARY TODHUNTER CLARK ROCKEFELLER exiting church after mass; MSs press photographers taking pictures (media); MSs Mr. & Mrs. Rockefeller descending steps, getting into car. MSs group of Caucasian women, wearing white print dresses and holding umbrellas littered with "Nixon" all over them, standing beside "America Needs Nixon" bus-- Nixon groupies; DOF TLS group of Richard Nixon supporters holding signs that spell out, "New Yorkers for Nixon" & "Nixon for President". Panning MS of Nixon supporters outside building; MS Nelson Rockefeller meeting crowd of Rocky supporters outside rally; MS Nixon supporters (young white women) dispensing free balloons at rally; MCU "GOP 1960" balloons, sponsored by Coca-Cola; MSs Nelson Rockefeller, a hawaiian lei around his neck, petting a small pug dog at a press event. SOUND: TLSs Mr. & Mrs Rockefeller on stage, receiving applause; MS Nelson speaking about the spread of communism: "when these people are being given an alternative today for an order of society-- an order under dictation & domination, true-- but an order which can bring economic growth & material opportunity at the sacrifice of freedom. We have got to offer these people of the world in cooperation w/ them, the opportunity to develop structures, structure of free people freely associating among themselves, forming new structure for world order in which free people can realize those values & those aspirations. In order to gain the confidence of men & women who aspire to these hopes throughout the world we have got to conduct ourselves at home to show that our system is viable, that our system can meet these objections, that we can today accomplish those things as our forefathers have in the past that we believe in and that we want to aspire to." MS Mr. & Mrs. Rockefeller exiting rally through crowd. | |
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