Summary

One Week in October

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: One Week in October
File Number: DN-LB-141 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Documentary
Year: 01/01/1969
Subjects: Aerials Propaganda-US-Anti Cuban-Anti Soviet Crisis-Nuclear War Hysteria-US Posturing-Cuban-Russian-American Leaders-World Army-US Navy-US Air Force-US Marines-US Base-Naval-Air-US Evacuation-Women-Children Shelters-Fallout Supplies-Fallout Shelter Panic-Civilian Fear Anxiety Television-Watching Refugees-Cuban Revolution-Cuban Rebels-Cuban Signs Speeches- Campaign-Presidential Media-Statements-Conferences-Print-Broadcast Factory-Int Printing Press-Newspaper Vendor-Street-Newspaper Surveillance-US of Cuba Photographs-Reconnaissance Weapons- Nuclear-Missiles Aircraft-Military-US-Russian Ships-Naval-US- Russian Capability-Nuclear Radar Religion-Church
Description: 11:01:26:00 B W 1962 Sd Narrated by Gary Merrill Cuban Missile Crisis Aerial photos, Cuba, San Cristobal 1962 satellite photographs of Russian ballistic missiles VS missiles, silos 11:02:37:00 B W 1960s Columbus Day parade, New York, VS Yankee game against San Francisco Giants 11:03:26:00 B W 1960s Little girl with polio, walking towards man, re March of Dimes 11:03:34:00 B W 1960s Jackie Kennedy with multi-ethnic, racial, group of children Cuts to fire works and flag, celebrating new African nation, Uganda 11:03:52:00 B W 1960s Vatican at night, people with candles, congress in session 11:04:05:00 B W 1960s Washington, JFK greets Premier of Algeria, Ahmed Ben Bella They review honor guard 11:04:16:00 B W 1960s AV of Havana Ben Bella with Fidel Castro 11:04:25:00 B W 1960s US fires rocket to moon, lift off Cuts to classroom, civil defense, inspectors visit buildings, re fallout shelters 11:05:13:00 B W 1960s Production of supplies for fallout shelters, women on assembly line, canned goods, medical kits, radiological supplies Cargo train transports supplies 11:05:36:00 B W 1960s Sign, 'Naval Supply Center Oakland' Fork lift, stock piles 11:05:50:00 B W 1960s Montage of Fallout Shelter signs 11:06:03:00 B W 1960s Truman and Eisenhower speak from podiums Helicopter coming in to land on lawn in front of White House 11:06:32:00 B W 1960s Cuba, beach with palm tree silhouetted in foreground VO refers to Spanish American war 11:07:00:00 B W 1959 Monument celebrating Cuba's liberation from Spain with US help in torn down Cuts to HA of crowd as Castro enters Havana following overthrow of dictator Batista, 1959 VS of crowd Pan up United Nations building in New York Castro and Khrushchev together, hugging 11:07:51:00 B W 1960s Havana airport, Castro greets Soviet Deputy Premier, Mikoyan 11:08:01:00 B W 1960s Two sailors mistakenly break line and move to march, catch themselves, step back into formation Castro signs trade agreement with Russia Russian ships sail to Havana with supplies 11:08:38:00 B W 1960s Two small boats of Cuban refugees, VS, rescue by Coast Guard Cuts to map of Cuba, VO mentions proximity to Panama Canal 11:09:20:00 B W 1962 US Reconnaissance plane over Cuba, date 14Oct62 Cuts to lab, intelligence photos examined 11:09:56:00 B W 1960s Sign, 'Strategic Missile Facility Gam 77' Cuts to HA of missile on truck bed transported from building Air Force plane taxis, takes off Atlantic fleet training exercise, ships, Polaris submarines, carriers 11:11:17:00 B W 1960s 'STRAC' headquarters, Int, meeting of US Forces Atlantic Command and Strategic Army Corps 11:11:50:00 B W 1960s Troops prepare and start training exercises, move to posts 1st Armored Division tanks, transported by rail Soldier tries to pull woman onto train through window Jeeps driving with headlights on 11:13:07:00 B W 1960s Sign, 'Railroad Crossing' Man swinging lantern, signal for supply train Tactical aircraft, good Land at NAS Key West, Florida Crew arm aircraft AV of Florida bases, planes Hospital tents and vehicles 11:14:55:00 B W 1960s Air Defense battalions, radar, surface to air missiles Missiles set up along beach, ready for launching Troops line beach with barbed wire Boys cycle past on bicycles Marines arrive at Guantanamo Bay 11:16:00:00 B W 1960s American women and children evacuated from Guantanamo Naval Base, VS VO, 'Few civilians are aware of the impending crisis' 20Oct62 Northwestern v Ohio State, football game 11:16:49:00 B W 1960s Night shot of Seattle fair, 'Shooter,' sign, big wheel and rides Los Angeles florist selling elephants, girl with baby elephant JFK up steps of plane, pre-election touring 11:17:20:00 B W 1960s JFK in meeting with Andre Gromyko, who 'told Kennedy that Russia had no offensive weapons in Cuba' JFK in car in Chicago, raining, calls off trip and returns to Washington 11:17:50:00 B W 1960s Reconnaissance photos of Cuba, can see men on ground running for anti-aircraft guns Notes on photos, 'Beagles Being Assembled' IL-28 bombers, Russian Medium range and intermediate range missiles in place Map showing range of Cuba's nuclear weapons 11:18:38:00 B W 1962 JFK's top advisors enter building for meeting, LBJ Selling newspapers on street Headlines, 'Crisis,' 'Kennedy Will Talk Tonight on TV, Calls for Crisi Parleys,' 'Highest National Urgency JFK Talks to Nation Tonight' 22Oct62 JFK speech Ships with offensive weapons headed for Cuba will be turned back People watching TV Increased surveillance JFK 'It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union 11:20:10:00 B W 1960s Ext, White House 11:20:19 Times Square zipper sign, 'Blockade Against Cuba' Civilians inter- viewed about crisis 'Fallout Shelter' signs Panic buying, crowded supermarkets, empty shelves 11:21:36:00 B W 1960s Washington Governor, Rossellini, at press conference with Governor Rockefeller of New York Photographers take shots Talking about coordination of state civil defense procedures Trucks head off with supplies to stock fallout shelters, signs on sides, 'City in Action Through Civil Defense' 'Pacific Fruit Express' truck AV United Nations building Int, USA's Stevenson asks Russia's ambassador, 'Do you Ambassador Zorren (sp) deny that the USSR has placed and is placing medium and intermediate range missiles and sites in Cuba Yes or No' Response, 'You will have your answer in due course' Stevenson, 'I'm prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over if that's your decision' Cuts to JFK signing quarantine order B-52 up runway and takes off, airborne Reconnaissance, interceptors and bombers take off, one from carrier Crew on carrier, on deck and Int shots Officer looks through binoculars from ship 11:25:01:00 B W 1960s Radar on ship, Ext, good Torpedo sweepers, montage of sailing vessels VO, 'On Thursday October 25th the Navy intercepts a Soviet tanker and allows her to proceed' 11:26:18:00 B W 1960s AV of Cuba White House at night, fountain Strategic Air Command bomber parked Anti-aircraft missiles, VS 11:27:02:00 B W 1960s Int HQ of North American Air Defense Command, workers, maps VO, 'Men and women the world over hang on the news,' Montage of people waiting and watching television 11:27:30:00 B W 1960s VO 'No one can be sure that he and his family will still be alive at this time tomorrow' 11:27:45:00 B W 1960s LS Kremlin, Moscow, Sunday VO, 'Chairman Khrushchev agrees to remove the Soviet missiles' Cuts to White House press statement Women and children return to Guantanamo, are greeted by men, one sign reads, 'Hi Honey, Dinner's Defrostin' Church ext, flag with cross on it Navy men enter church with families, VS of church Cuts to surveillance photos of Cuba showing dismantled missile sites 11:29:30:00 B W 1960s Soviet ships carry missiles out of Cuba, HA 11:29:42:00 B W 1960s US street scenes, shoppers, walking past stores, women, men and children Credits-Written by Thomas H Wolf Edited by John C Barnard Music composed and conducted by Kenyon Hopkins 11:30:31:00 B W 1960s Post script about nuclear attack and community fallout shelter program Ends 11:30:57:20
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