| The Cuban Crisis | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1703 |
| Catalog #: | 428720 | |
| Clip Number: | 428720-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 035-087-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:37:28 - 00:43:27 | |
| Location: | USA and Cuba | |
| Year Shot: | 1962 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: United Nations LOCATIONS/CARIBBEAN: Cuba LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA MILITARY: Intelligence MILITARY: Marines, US MILITARY: Navy, USA PERSONALITIES: Castro, Fidel PERSONALITIES: Stevenson, Adlai Ewing WAR & CONFLICT/COLD WAR: Cuban Missile Crisis WAR & CONFLICT/COLD WAR: Defense | |
| Description: | Same as catalog #520372 The Cuban Crisis The United States' answer to what Adlai Stevenson calls in the United Nations: "Soviet Blackmail" is a quarantine of all offensive weapons being shipped from Russia to the island fortress. The U.S. throws up a steel fence, prepared to stop any vessel carrying materials of war. Adlai Stevenson speaking to United Nations (natural audio of speech). Aerial views of ships at sea, battleships, aircraft carriers, etc. In Cuba itself 100,000 men are on emergency orders as they have been during past invasion scares. The waterfront in Havana and along other parts of the coast bristle with gun emplacements as the Cuban regime waits to see what their Kremlin bosses were to do. Cuban soldiers in streets. Patriotic rallies, women carry signs. Fidel Castro seen at rally. The United States arrived at the decision after studying reconnaissance photographs made with high-powered cameras (surveillance ?). Men assemble large camera onto plane, and clean lens. Aerial of plane in flight. Interior shot of camera operator. Photos of missile site and surface to air missile depot. In the greatest display of hemisphere solidarity since World War II the OAS unanimously endorses the actions of the United States. Cuba is absent, empty chair. Sec. of State Dean Rusk ? Meanwhile, the U.S. continues to reinforce its Cuban base at Guantanamo Bay. Air force plane on tarmac, marines exit plane carrying duffle bags. Marines lined up for group photo. Pan down United Nations building. The United States goes to the UN Security Council for a resolution calling for a withdrawal of all offensive weapons from Cuba after President Kennedy refuses to withdraw our arms blockade before the bases are demolished. Adlai Stevenson speaking to United Nations. | |
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