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News in Brief: Plane Crash In River.
News in Brief: Plane Crash In River. Crash landing in the East River in a fog, a twin-engined airliner sinks with only its tail and one wing-tip showing. Thirty-three passengers and crew of three miraculously escape with their lives due to prompt action by rescue boats. Ground to air shot of plane flying over, tilt down to wing of plane poking out of the water, a few boats nearby. A helicopter joins the effort. No rescue or survivors are seen, mostly shots of the downed plane. In the event of a water landing...
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973. Testimony of John Dean.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973 - Testimony of John Dean.
News in Brief: Africa, African Volcano Erupts.
News in Brief: Africa, African Volcano Erupts. Nyamuragira, Virunga Mountains, Congo The largest volcano in the French Congo, relatively obscure and unknown, presents a fiery, forbidding appearance as it goes on a rampage during visit of newsreel cameraman. Shower of molten lava is visible for miles. Eruption is progress, aerial and close shots. Night shots of erupting lava.
News in Brief: California, Flying Congressman Home.
News in Brief: California, Flying Congressman Home. After a globe-girdling flight of 35,000 miles, Rep. Peter Mack of Illinois returns with a new concept of international relations. Former Navy flier, Mr. Mack flew in from Honolulu. Small plane taxis. Man in cockpit, wearing bow tie, waves to camera. Press take pictures. Mack puts a flowered lei around his neck, mugs.
News in Brief: Washington DC, Voice Of America.
News in Brief: Washington DC, Voice Of America. The Voice of America is now going sea, to spread the voice of freedom behind the iron curtain. Pres. Truman speaks during inaugural ceremonies on board cutter 'Courier.' Shot of the Coast Guard cutter. President Harry S. Truman boards the boat. Various shots of radio equipment, dishes/transmitters, etc. Radio operator/engineer adjusts some knobs. Truman speaks at podium under a tent. Propaganda.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973. Testimony of John Dean.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973 - Testimony of John Dean.
News in Brief: Canada Cattle Slaughtered.
News in Brief: Canada Cattle Slaughtered. Dread hoof & mouth disease breaks out in Saskatchewan, and hundreds of diseased cattle are rounded up and shot to prevent the further spread of the dread plague. Farm in winter. Men post sign: "Quarantined." Cows are herded along. Cows in a pit unknowingly awaiting death. Men fire guns toward the cattle. Bulldozer pushes dirt over the dead cattle in their giant grave.
Citizens Angry Over Town's Destruction.
Citizens Angry Over Town's Destruction. Death hovers over this tiny lumber village high in the Alps. The government wants to flood the place to make way for a giant power project. But the citizens are angry, and some sixty of them even threaten mass suicide rather than leave. High angle shots of snowy village. Map of the area. French citizens talk at a town meeting sort of thing. Window shutters being closed. Various shots to represent the emptying village - man walks out door with bundle on his back, scenes of empty schoolroom, puppy walks along piece of furniture on a cart.
Scrap Drive: Ancient Locomotives Cut Up For War Sinews.
Scrap Drive: Ancient Locomotives Cut Up For War Sinews. Ancient veterans of the rails highball down the track on their way to the scrap pile. Scores of outdated train engines, no longer useful, are put to the torch and thousands of pounds of vital scrap iron gained for construction of new tanks needed in Korea. Last shot shows tanks rolling by the old trains.
Nature's Rampage: 224 Die in Tornadoes; Airlift Feeds Cattle.
Nature's Rampage: 224 Die in Tornadoes; Airlift Feeds Cattle. At latest count, 223 persons lost their lives and over one thousand were hurt, in wake of sudden tornado that lashed wide areas in the South. Hardest hit is Judsonia, a small town in Arkansas, where devastation looks like place had been leveled by atom bomb. Lots of twisted wreckage - hard to tell what some of it was. Car buried under piles of bricks. Woman searches the remains of a house. People come up from an underground storm cellar. Bank vault, still standing, though the bank around it has been destroyed. Disaster relief station set up in church. In other disaster news, snow has blanketed cattle ranges in Montana and Nevada. Hay is loaded onto planes, then flown and thrown overboard to (presumably) the animals in the snowy land below. Cows eat hay.
Ike Reports: General Gives Annual Statement to NATO.
Ike Reports: General Gives Annual Statement to NATO. From his headquarters at SHAPE near Paris, General Eisenhower issues an encouraging report on the organization of NATO troops for the defense of Western Europe. Sitting at desk with a flag and a globe behind him, General DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER says progress toward centralization and unification in Western Europe is an important trend. Mentions the Schumann Plan and the European Defense Force. "We are being bound together in a single economic/political whole to make the peace of this region secure and safe," says Ike.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973. Testimony of John Dean.
Watergate Hearings: Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities June 28, 1973 - Testimony of John Dean.
August 4, 1994 - Part 2
(11:00:00)(tape #1008 begins) turns out to be some number of months before in this setting we are getting these facts this late in the game in a complete and a full way. I mean, that is not good practice. You know that . Why did that not happen? Mr. McLARTY. Mr. Chairman, I fully concur with your comments I about complete testimony. I would underscore again that, while this was Treasury testimony, Mr. Podesta and others did try to make certain to the best of their ability it was complete. I believe they feel they did so in a timely manner. Now you press that matter further with Mr. Podesta and I think he more precisely answer. The CHAIRMAN, I will do that. I have got to put the Committee in recess. Our time to vote on the Floor is about to expire and I want to go make the vote. So we will resume very shortly. I would say within 10 minutes. The Committee stands in recess. 305 Mr. McLARTY. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. (11:00:54) [Recess.] (11:00:56) Commentary of hearings hosts DON BODE and NINA TOTENBERG from tv studios, they also talk to TERRY LEMONS of the Arkansas Gazette and Senator RICHARD BRYAN (11:02:00)(tape #10098 ends)
Sports: Seattle, Motorcycle Mud Race.
Sports: Seattle, Motorcycle Mud Race. Two girls (women) join the fun this year, joining the men cyclists for the annual spring mud race through the quagmire. It's gooey and muddy, and most of the hopefuls bog down, but the winner gets a hero's reward. Comical shots of motorcyclists driving through mud puddles, spinning out quite remarkably, slogging through mud, etc. The winner, who has mud on his face, kisses a young woman; they laugh. Funny, unusual competition.
News in Brief: Highest Honors.
News in Brief: Highest Honors. Three more Korean War heroes receive the Congressional Medal of Honor from the hands of President Truman. Lloyd Burke, Rodolfo (Rudolfo?) Hernandez, Harold Wilson (?) are the recipients. Row of press photographers squat, aiming their cameras. By photo op for President Harry Truman as well as the soldiers.
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 28, 1973 (1/2)
[00.04.28-DEAN describes his Sept. 15, 1972 meeting with NIXON] Mr. DEAN. AS I tried to describe in my statement, the reception was very warm and very cordial. There was some preliminary pleasantries, and then the next thing that I recall the President very clearly saying to me is that he had been told by Mr. Haldeman that he had been kept posted or made aware of my handling of the various aspects of the Watergate case and the fact that the case, you know, the indictments had now been handed down, no one in the White House had been indicted, they had stopped at Liddy. [00.05.17-BAKER wants to examine the President's statement more carefully] Senator BAKER. Stop, stop, Stop for one, second. Let's examine those particular words just for a second. That no one in the White House had been indicted. Is that as near to the exact language--I don't know so I am not having a trap for you, I just jut want to know. Mr. DEAN. Yes, there was a reference to the fact the indictments had been handed down and it was quite obvious that no one In the White House had been indicted on the indictments that had been handed down. Senator BAKER. Did he say that, though? Mr. DEAN. Did he say that no one in the White House had been handed down? I can't recall it. I can recall a reference to the, fact that the indictments Were now handed down and he was aware of that and the status of the indictments and expressed What, to me was a pleasure to the fact that it had stopped at Mr. Liddy. Senator BAKER. Tell me What he said. Mr. DEAN. Well, as I say, he told me, I had done a good job--- [00.06.11] Senator BAKER. NO, let's talk about the pleasure, He expressed pleasure the indictments had stopped at Mr. Liddy. Can you just for the purposes of our information tell me the language that he used? Mr. DEAN. Senator, let me make it very clear the pleasure that it had stopped there Is an inference of mine based on, as I told Senator Gurney, the impression I had as a -result of the, of his, complimenting me. Senator BAKER. Can you give us any information, Can you give us any further insight into what the President said? Mr. DEAN. Yes, I can recall he told me that he appreciated how difficult a job it had been for me. Senator BAKER. Is that at close to the exact language? Mr. DEAN. Yes, that is close to the exact language. That stuck very clearly in my mind because I -recall my response to that was that I didn't feel that I could take credit. I thought that others had done much more difficult things and by that I was referring to the fact that Mr. Magruder had perjured himself. [Laughter.] There was not an extended discussion from there as to any more of my involvement. I had been complimented. I told him I couldn't take the credit, and then we moved into a discussion of the status of the case. [00.07.40]
News in Brief: Dikes Holding Flood
News in Brief: Dikes Holding Flood. Although new sections of the west are threatened by the rampaging Mississippi and Missouri rivers, sand bags and wooden dikes erected by army engineers, national guardsmen and local groups are holding back the flood waters in many sections. Various shots of waters near the top of barriers to hold them back, in an inhabited area. Danger, threat. National guard soldiers pass sandbags down a line. Various shots of ordinary citizens getting food at a Red Cross facility; some shots could pass for a soup kitchen.
News in Brief: Strike Halts Japanese Railroads.
News in Brief: Strike Halts Japanese Railroads. Strikes fomented to protest anti-communist laws pending before the Japanese Diet virtually cripple all railroads leading into Tokyo. Violence breaks out as red-led strikers clash with police. Various shots of empty railroad tracks with what looks like wire strung across them (as if a wire fence would stop a train?). Police disperse students, who seem to be protesting nonviolently - though one of them has his head bandaged and covered with blood. Cold War tension.
Sports: Tough Grind.
Sports: Tough Grind. A bunch of motorcycle jockeys tackle one of the toughest climbs in the country, with some shattering results as they bite the dust. Motorcycle hill climb, wipeouts.
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, June 28, 1973 (1/2)
[00.07.40-BAKER continues to question DEAN about his meeting with NIXON on Sept. 15, 1972, to determine when NIXON was aware of the coverup] Senator BAKER. Stop, before you get to the status, and let's lay that aside just for a second because I do -want to hear about that, too, but this really, and I don't mean to be melodramatic, but this is really a terribly important moment in history. As you know, this meeting was in the afternoon in the oval office in Washington on September 15, 1972, and you were there, the President was there, and Mr. Haldeman. Mr. DEAN. Mr. Haldeman was there. Senator BAKER. What was the President's demeanor, what -was his attitude, what was the expression on his face, the quality of his voice? Mr. DEAN. Well, as I said, when I walked in it -was very war, very cordial. They were smiling, they were happy, they -were relaxed. The President, I think I said earlier this morning was about to go somewhere and I think that actually was delaying his departure to have this conversation with me. The fact that I had not been in to see the President other than on a rather mechanical activity before that dealings with his testamentary papers, indicated so clearly that Haldeman had thought that the President should compliment me for my handling of this matter, and that that was one of the reasons I probably had been called over, and the President had done it at Mr. Haldeman's request. [00.09.07] Senator BAKER. All right. Now, tell us about,, as you started to say before I interrupted you, the status of the case. Mr. DEAN. All right. He was interested in knowing if it -was likely--well, let me, before I go on to that, let me say something else that I recall. When we talked about the fact that the indictments had been handed down, at some, point, and after the compliment I told him at that point that we had managed, you know, that the matter had been contained, it had not come into the White House, I didn't say that, I said it had been contained. Senator BAKER. Did you say anything beyond that it had been contained? Mr. DEAN. No, I did not. I used that, I recall very clearly using that expression that it had been contained. Senator BAKER. That is an important word, it has been contained. Mr. DEAN. That is right. [00.10.00] Senator BAKER. What -was the President's or Mr. Haldeman's reaction to that word because, that is a rather significant word. I think. Mr. DEAN. Well. I have got, to say this, I wasn't studying the President's face or Mr. Haldeman's face at this time. I had not ever had a one on one with the President, before and must confess I was a little nervous in there. They were trying to make me as relaxed as possible, and make It as cordial as possible, but I was quite. naturally nervous. There was a man who is the most important man in the Western World, and here I am having a conversation with him for the first time one on one, so I was not studying his reactions and it wasn't until I started meeting with him more frequently later that the tenor of our conversations changed and---- [00.10.55] Senator BAKER. You see what I am driving at I am sure, Mr. Dean. If someone had said that the investigation has been contained it might evoke a question, that might create a startled look on one's face, it might be taken for granted, and that might be important to shed light. Mr. DEAN. That is right. Senator BAKER. On the state of the knowledge with the person with whom you were having the conversation. [00.11.16] Mr. DEAN. Everyone seemed to understand what I was talking about. It didn't evoke any questions and I was going on to say that I didn't think it could be contained indefinitely. I said that this is, you know, there are a lot of hurdles that have to be leaped down the road before it will definitely remain contained and I was trying to tell the President at that time that I was not sure the coverup even then would last indefinitely. Senator BAKER. This once again is a terribly important area of inquiry, SO let, me interrupt you again and take you over it one more time. You told the President, I don't think it can continue to be contained? Mr. DEAN. That is correct. Senator BAKER. Are those close to Your exact words? Mr. DEAN. That is very close to my words, because I told him it had been contained to that point and I was not sure that it would be contained indefinitely. Senator BAKER. What was his reaction to this? Mr. DEAN. As I say. I don't recall any particular reaction. Senator BAKER. Was there any statement by him or by Mr. Haldeman at that point on this statement? Mr. DEAN. NO, not to my recollection. Senator BAKER. All right, go ahead. Mr. DEAN. It, was then we turned to the status of the litigation. The criminal case, as I recall the sequence of the conversation and he wanted to know when hen this, matter was likely to come to trial. I told him very much would depend upon which judge the case was assigned to. [00.12.57]
Water Birds - Mallard Duck
(Tape 1) 20:10:16 Mallard ducks swim and take off
Water Birds - Mallard Duck
(Tape 2) 13:58:46 Mallard ducks feed through hole in ice
Novel Helicopter Flies
Rolling, jumpy dull contrast in imagery Amazing scenes as a new type plane, invented by Nicholas Florine, a Russian, makes a vertical ascent and descent in its first trial hop before a group of aeronautical engineers.
Chinese Hold State Lottery
Rolling contrast dull and light in imagery Shanghai, China Exclusive pictures of the drawing in the great government conducted-gamble, held to raise funds for the promotion of aviation and the construction of new roads, in which a group in Peking, won the first prize of approximately $250,000.