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This compilation of Universal Newsreels from January 1959 to April 1961 covers the Cuban Revolution to the aftermath of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.

This Universal Newsreel reports on an upset in the 1964 Republican New Hampshire primary, when Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge beat Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona). A second story covers exten…

This 1952 Universal Newsreel includes four stories: Senator Estes Kefauver (D-TN) announces his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination; Representative Peter Mack (D-IL) lands i…

This newsreel covers Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) announcing her candidacy for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination, and a story about a Defense Department experimental vehicle…

This Universal Newsreel shows scenes of Franklin Roosevelt’s March 4, 1933, presidential inauguration and an airplane rushing film of the event from Washington, D.C., to New York City.

Newsreel with partial sound depicting New Year’s Eve celebrations in New York, Chicago, and Havana, Cuba.

On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. He orbited the earth three times in a spacecraft named Friendship 7. The flight lasted just under fiv…

The 1959 Universal Newsreel Castro Triumphs looks at culmination of the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro.

In this Universal Newsreel segment, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover testifies on crime and gambling, and Korean War veterans are shown returning home, including caskets of those who were killed…

This 1951 Universal News-in-Brief showed a toy drive for French orphans and war wounded children, an Afghan government official visit to a coal mine in Washington state, and Navy women parac…

This Universal Newsreel from October 24, 1967, showed scenes of news stories including anti-war protests in front of the Pentagon, a new jet airliner in Germany, a meeting between leaders fr…

An archival short highlighting the news on October 6, 1967.

This archival newsreel presented news stories from September 19, 1967. President Johnson was seen visiting former President Truman at his home in Independence, Missouri; anti-Cuban picket…

This Universal Newsreel from August 29, 1955, showed an August 27, 1955, oil refinery explosion in Whiting, Indiana; the return over the Demilitarized Zone of the remains of one officer and …

This July 30, 1959, newsreel contains archival footage of the round up of wild ponies at Chincoteague, Virginia.

This July 30,1959, Universal Newsreel contains archival footage of Vice President Nixon visiting Leningrad. Admiral Rickover convinced the Soviets to give him a tour of a nuclear-powered ice…

This July 30, 1959, newsreel contains archival footage of Hawaii’s first state election. Scenes show the viewer who was elected governor, senator, and representative of the state.

This April 23, 1945, Universal Newsreel report on the final days of war in Germany as U.S. and Russian forces moved towards a meeting included scenes of German prisoners, German civilians, a…

This April 7, 1965, Universal Newsreel reports on President Johnson’s first major policy speech regarding the Vietnam War. A short report about tensions in Berlin, Germany, ends the newsreel…

This April 5, 1945 Universal Newsreel includes several reports from the war in Germany, including an airborne invasion across the Rhine River using paratroopers and gliders, the taking of th…