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Universal Newsreel Volume 35, Release 75, 09/13/1962
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National Archives description: "The original release sheet reads: KENNEDY TOUR: CALLS FOR U.S. LEAD IN SPACE: The President tours four Space installations: Huntsville, Alabama; Cape Canaveral, Fla.; the Houston Manned Space Center and the McDonnell plant in St. Louis. He inspects our Space progress and gets highly classified reports on how far we've gone. In Houston he calls for backing in our Space effort, saying we cannot afford to lag if we want to be in the forefront of nations. FASHION PARADE: TAN MAH HIDE! Leather is falling into step in the Fall Fashion Parade. Finished in an explosion of rainbow colors, leather has been styled into smocks and sheath-topped shirts and is used to accent tweed and leopard - - - yes, leopard! TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO There was a prologue to World War II - 25 years ago. The people of Shanghai were standing firm against Japanese aggression when they were bombed without warning from the air and from the sea. This was the horrible preview or things to come - civilians helpless before a doom sowed from the skies. Americans were evacuated from the International Zone of Shanghai ~- families of military and diplomatic personnel taken by tenders and tugs t…
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Universal
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Newsreel, Fashion, Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963, Project Mercury (U.S.), Manned Spacecraft Center (U.S.), McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company-St. Louis, Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937, Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- China -- Nanjing Shi, World War, 1939-19455 -- China, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, John F. Kennedy Space Center, Space Race, Schirra, Wally, Von Braun, Wernher, 1912-1977, Phantom II (Jet fighter plane), United States. -- Marine Corps -- Marines, 6th -- History, China Marines, USS Chaumont, USS Chaumont (AP-5)
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