The Rb-47 Debate Lodge Debunks Red Spy-flight Charges Footage

The RB-47 Debate: Lodge Debunks Red Spy-Flight Charges
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	Catalog #:	363489
	Clip Number:	363489-1
	Orginal Film:	033-060-02
	Timecode:	00:20:44 - 00:22:41
	Location:	New York, New York
	Year Shot:	1960 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	No
	Headings:	INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: United Nations LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York PERSONALITIES: Lodge, Henry Cabot WAR & CONFLICT/COLD WAR: Espionage WAR & CONFLICT/COLD WAR: Incidents
	Description:	The RB-47 Debate. In United Nations Security Council debate in New York, Ambassador Lodge gives the lie to Soviet charges that the R-B-47 reconnaissance jet shot down by Red fighters was on a spy flight. He reveals the plane's flight was tracked by U.S. secret devices, which show that Red fighters actually attempted to force the plane from its flight over international waters into Red air space before shooting it down. A dramatic denunciation of Soviet piracy. United Nations Security Council in session. MS - Ambassador Lodge pointing at a map VO says that Ambassador says the Red Fighter Pilots attempted to push it over into the Russian Zone before they shot it down. Ambassador Lodge addresses the United Nation's Security Council, "The plane was brought down by the Soviet Union neither at the place nor at the time which the Soviet Union claims. What actually happened is this, and I hope the Council will listen very carefully, before the plane reached the point more than 50 miles north of the plane was scheduled to make its turn to the Northeast. A Soviet Fighter pressed in from the seaward side. There's the red arrow showing the Soviet Fighter. It pressed in from the seaward side and tried to force the plane off its course and into Soviet territory. Now this astonishing and criminal fact was established beyond doubt by the evidences of our scientific devices which followed the RB-47 through all the events which I have described. Mr. President the Soviet Union has committed a predatory act, in international water. This is serious enough in it itself. But the situation has been further aggravated by the subsequent allegations and pronouncements by the Soviet government. It is thus pertinent to ask, what is behind these lawless actions and these reckless statements? Permeating from the Kremlin and echoed here in the council."