Khrushchev's Visit to Iowa 1959 - film 2 part 4

Description: This film shows the news footage of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Iowa in 1959. Film two focuses on Khrushchev leaving the Des Moines airport after a welcoming ceremony and going to the Hotel Fort Des Moines.

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now of course we're seeing some of the cars being left back into the stream of traffic as these streets are open Locust Street and tenth Street and land don't you imagine the quite a few of the people we see that are still standing inside the lobby of the Fort Des Moines and and those that remain across the street are waiting for the approximate schedule of an hour and five minutes from now and he scheduled again to leave the hotel to go the go to these annoying packing company and the John Deere works I'm sure number of them yes we'll just stay there and get another good glimpse at him when he comes out there is one of the guards on the very top of that circular type parking ramp we heard reports that there would be riflemen up there and sure enough there is one of them and here now we have the Caged people heavens they are not really caged they're perfectly free Americans but they are just curious and that's a wonderful place to see mr. Kris job and they have gotten themselves in a bad position to seat but you can note that there are a number of people there as herb says certain percentage of those people over there are not just idle Americans they are security people keeping thing under control our Locust Street is open to traffic again and Des Moines will return to somewhat near normal for a little while at least although the absence of parking will make any des moines resident to quickly realize that not is all just normal this feat such a good deal different the usual course of the Des Moines event anyway and now at three-thirty that's just about in an hour from now or mr. Shah and his party will head out for first of all the loin packing plant then up due to John here tonight works where they will see the summer for the Des Moines industrial production that of course is very definitely tied to agriculture after the tour is over and he will have a chance at both those places to speak with people in the production end of this business you

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