Khrushchev's Visit to Iowa 1959 - film 1 part 2

as you can see there are very large crowds on hand around the Fort Des Moines there but you there are some protest signs there's one which reads the only good communist is a dead one and the D is just a little bit out of place in the middle there isn't that a rather hasty job perhaps of sign making but a demonstration that there are those who are protesting certainly those folks who were on the circular ramp which you have been watching from the position of 9th and Walnut certainly those folks have an excellent view up there and we consider them to be pretty lucky because there had been some talk in advance that security regulations might not allow the general public or even news photographers to take up a position there along the ramp however as you can see it's crowded to capacity except I believe for the top level or oh yes even up there there are some people apparently a limited number there and if we can we'll try now to take a look at the position at 14th and Locust where we hope to be able to see something of the crowd waiting at about the midway point on the cavalcade's route from Fleur Drive and McKinley down to downtown Des Moines where he will disembark at the Fort Des Moines hotel for the moment we're continuing to view that scene as we have said in the vicinity of the Fort Des Moines hotel and notice that in the Plymouth building there right across the street from the Fort Des Moines hotel a great many people whose business offices are places where not much businesses being transacted this afternoon they are filled to capacity every window on the sides which command a view of the entrance to the Fort Des Moines with interested persons we were told from our reporter on the scene at the Fort Des Moines a short time ago that for a time at least the police endeavored to persuade those who were farther back from the scene with signs to stay back and for those who were closer up to join them also but at the present time it appeared to us from our view of the Fort Des Moines that some of those protest signs were rather close to the scene again at the airport taking a look at some of the people who are waiting and they have been waiting many of them since 9 or 10 o'clock this morning at least to get their motion pictures and their still pictures of the arrival of the Russian premier it was a matter of great interest to most of us who are newsmen to see this large commercial jet plane arrive about an hour ago and from it debouching 125 or more news people all of whom had made the flight from San Francisco they report to us that premier Khrushchev certainly was in brighter mood when he left San Francisco than he was when he left Los Angeles California as most of you are well aware by now there was a great deal of concern on the part of State Department people that Khrushchev had gotten so angry at some of the exchanges in Los Angeles that he might actually make good his threat that he was going to leave and to go home but in San Francisco he has been able to mingle with the public more generally than was the case anywhere else along the tour so far and in addition to that he apparently by consensus from every newsman I've talked to who has been on the whole tour got the warmest welcome in San Francisco that he received any place along the route and this seems to have encouraged him a great deal and to have made him very happy here we are inside the Fort Des Moines hotel you notice that magazine they're bearing the letters USSR that of course is the official english language magazine published in Russia under an exchange agreement which allowed it to be sold in this country in return for the sale of some American magazines inside Soviet Russia the other one was a magazine which outlines some of the history and background some of the facts about the man who's going to ride here at the Des Moines Airport very shortly once again we're watching some people getting out at the Fort Des Moines hotel very frankly and nobody can tell from this particular point that whether these are members of the Russian party or not but I suspect it may very well be the case as they are just about 15 minutes I would guess before we took the air with this telecast the last plane which landed here is the most recent jet plane arrived with a large number of members of the Russian party of a somewhat secondary rank and now we are seeing on our television view the plane bearing Russian premier Khrushchev himself he is arriving in a Boeing 707 which has been of course in the air from San Francisco for a matter of something more than two hours now and it makes a beautiful sight in the air as have all these other jets as they approach the Des Moines Airport an excellent shot here you can see that 707 wheels not yet down as it goes into its landing pattern and as preparations now very rapidly move forward to have the official welcome as soon as that plane touches the ground it's quite an impressive sight to watch these Jets as they come in we have seen now three of them prior to Khrushchev and believe me when when they hit the concrete they hit it hard there is a tremendous scorching of the wheels and a flare of blue smoke as the rubber is burned off as those wheels make contact and then the nose wheel slowly settling down gives you another and smaller burst of blue smoke before the great plane rolls on and from our vantage point disappears for a moment before it again turns around taxis back and picks up its position this is Khrushchev's plane that we have just been watching entering into its landing pattern and which very shortly is going to be coming into our view as it makes a landing here at the Des Moines Municipal Airport expectancy is gathering by the moment the military police are standing ready for action all around the fringes the newsmen and I would hate to arrive at an exact count or attempt to but I would suppose it certainly there must be 500 newsmen that gathered right here on the edge in front of our mobile unit from which our television cameras are operating and they're all waving at each other making sure their cameras are ready to operate watching the play of the various security guards as they begin to take up new positions and we are now about to get a good look at Premier Khrushchev's plane as it comes in from the north having passed over a part of the City of Des Moines as it made its big circular approach to the Des Moines Airport and he is very low to the ground however you're going to be able to see him right over the farm buildings that are visible here at the present time right over a white house which is directly a fork across from the Des Moines Airport and you are now seeing that giant plane with a plume of jet fuel smoke emerging from its engines slowly settling down it is going probably to pass behind the house in your view for just a moment there it is and it's now very very close to the runway itself we here can listen to the whistle of those giant motors the plane has just set down and this is bouncing a little bit we won't give him too many points for that landing we saw a couple of better ones earlier to be right honest now the nose wheel is down Russian premier Khrushchev has arrived in Des Moines and in the state of Iowa it'll be a little while before we get a look at him because those planes roll a long way before they come to a halt and you have heard the roar of the engines as they attempt to slow down the progress of that role very shortly however it will have run out its course it will have turned around we will hear the roar of the engines as it taxis slowly toward the position where the official party of greeters Governor Loveless Lieutenant Governor McManus Mayor Isles the president of the Chamber of Commerce Frank de Putte and John Adams the executive secretary of the Des Moines Chamber of Commerce are waiting to greeting those who have been in the news party waiting for the arrival of Khrushchev who actually flew here ahead of him as I've explained in the press flames which always precede the arrival of a VIP and this sort of a tour of the country tell us that while Khrushchev is more happy than he was when he left Los Angeles that they have marked him as a man who doesn't detect and feel his emotions many times and is pretty impetuous and that they believe on balance at the present moment that not too much has happened on the tour which greatly enhances the prospect of some major agreement coming out of his talks with President Eisenhower at Camp David Maryland at the end of the tour I talked briefly with John Sculley the diplomatic reporter of The Associated Press who arrived on this plane and he expressed his belief that nobody among the American public would be wise to expect really sensational developments out of the conference between Eisenhower and Khrushchev at Camp David now that big plane is coming in you can see it beautifully turning around there is a line marked on the airport runway here where the plane is supposed to stop and as you can hear our directors probably in the background urging our cameraman to get a still better shot perhaps you can even hear in the background the roar of the plane's motors as that giant 707 jet turns around and begins to take up the position from which it will shortly be disembarking the official Russian party