Archival newsreels featuring actor turned President Ronald Reagan.
Universal Newsreel, 1947, "Movies Fight Communism": slow motion MS of actors GEORGE MURPHY, RONALD REAGAN and ROBERT MONTGOMERY posing outside of Capitol Building in Washington DC.
Universal Newsreel, 1951, "Crusade for Freedom": MSs Reagan in office, talking to camera about the services of the Crusade for Freedom; MSs World Freedom Bell ringing; EST shots of Radio Free Europe transmitter, MSs radio engineers, radio announcers, technicians, etc; LS/MS of Gen. LUCIOUS D. CLAY speaking at Crusade rally; map of proposed radio antenna in Eastern Europe & China.
Universal Newsreel, 1950: SAG President Ronald Reagan speaks at anti-Communism rally, saying that we should forget the term Communism for now, and "focus on the proper term pro-Russia"; "Communism, the greatest hoax of the century, was perpetrated on the world to cover and mask... a program of Russian aggression and expansion. We here in Hollywood... will find that we can convince the world by subscribing to this program to the limit of our ability...".