| USA-USSR Moon Team: President Kennedy Addresses United Nations | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1715 |
| Catalog #: | 362329 | |
| Clip Number: | 362329-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 036-078-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:30:33 - 00:32:20 | |
| Location: | New York, New York | |
| Year Shot: | 1963 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: United Nations, UNESCO LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York PERSONALITIES: Kennedy, John F ( JFK ) PERSONALITIES: Stevenson, Adlai Ewing PERSONALITIES: Thant, U | |
| Description: | In a major address to the United Nations General Assembly, the president hails the pause in the Cold War, while taking note of Cuba and Berlin. Then he makes the startling proposal that the United States and the Soviet Union cooperate rather than compete - and together try to put a man on the Moon. New York, New York Outside United Nation Building, camera pans, crowd outside the entrance of the building. MCUS - People standing behind police barriers. MCUS - President Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson. MCUS - World Press snapping pictures, cameras with flash bulbs. MS - Dr. Ralf Bunch shaking hands with President Kennedy. OHS - United Nations General Assembly, jammed packed with foreign Diplomats. MS - MLS - President Kennedy steps up to the podium to address the United Nations General Assembly. President Kennedy, "Finely in the field where the United States and the Soviet Union and a special capacity, in the field of space, there is room for new cooperation. For further joint efforts in the regulation and exploration of space. I include among these possibilities, a joint expedition to the moon. Space offers no problems of sovereignty by resolution of this Assembly, the members of the United Nations, have foresworn any claim to territorial rights in outer space or on celestial bodies and declared that international law and the United Nations charter will apply. Why therefore should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union in preparing for such expeditions become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?" | |
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