Khrushchev's Visit to Iowa 1959 - film 3 part 3
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Description: This film shows the news footage of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Iowa in 1959. Film three focuses on Krushchev visiting the Iowa State Univeristy campus, in particular the College of Home Economics.
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this is looking out in between the building is the wings jut out on each side of the home economic the students have gathered in what might be termed a patio looking in from the back side waiting for them to come up the steps board the car and go to the swine nutrition farm we have cameras located around the root after he leaves the Home Economics building will pick them up on his journey and of course when he arrives at the swine nutrition farm we will switch out there for wh 0 remote unit is standing by Jack Kerrigan waiting to bring a description out there photographer on top of the roof Secret Service I'm in standing with rifles as most all of the National Guardsmen with guns giant dog have to get into the picture there photographer attempting to get the best of shots or is paper or for a scrapbook kept looking at this crowd would remind you that bisha was here yes it does have a gala affair tone to it but it sort of reminds you of the crowds that we saw at the American exhibit in Moscow the summer there the crowds were were very much anxious to see what we had to show them and the exhibit I felt gave a pretty good cross-section of America the literature the work we're doing in the field of education primarily our school work and then exhibits of how we live the model home the style shows the things that we have in the stores things for children things for adults and things for young people in terms of their recreational area then out throughout the exhibit we saw models of our cars here at home our trucks and our machinery and we found that the men were very eager to lift up the hood and look into the motors of our trucks and of our tractors and to look very carefully at our combines our corn planters and so forth in the exhibit there at Moscow we happen to be there on what they call their holiday which is Sundy and there were thousands upon thousands of people going through the exhibit hour by hour they would let them in in waves each 30 minutes a new group would enter the main pavilion and then spread out from there to the various smaller units we see more people coming down from the upstairs lobby it would appear that perhaps the tour is reaching a conclusion there in the Home Economics building I don't believe that officials believe that mr. Khrushchev would stay in here in the Home Economics building quite this long but reports coming to us indicate that he is thoroughly enjoying himself as he has since he arrived in San Francisco is stay in des moines and in coon rapids and in the short time that he has been on the Iowa State University campus I would think dick that this is the type of thing that mr. Khrushchev would be very much interested in this was the type of thing that we tried to do and we were much more able to reach the people of Russia this year compared with last not only in the city but out on the farms and this is the type of thing that helps you understand the people is to get where you can visit directly with them we found that many of the young people particularly the young people in their late teens and early twenties that have had the opportunities of the expanded English in their schools that has given the tourists and opportunity to do more visiting directly with people dig of course we might mention to cap that perhaps this is the first time where Mr Khrushchev and Adam Chris Chavez have actually toured a building together we understand that they had the opportunity in beltsville but they refuse to be broken up and decided to go together this of course the Home Economics building has to do with the family activities and this is the proper place for them here they calmly have completed the tour Adam Chris Chava right in front of our cameras mr. Khrushchev mrs. Hilton I'm passing by mr. Khrushchev waving at the cameras heading down the quarter now as the moves back outside will board the car in the car and we'll start the tour of the University campus of course made a flying trip into ames moving on highway 30 from the West as he arrived in ames he got to see some highway construction work going on mr. Khrushchev as he moves outside mayor DeHart and mrs. D heart Henry Cabot Lodge moving along mrs. Hilton coming outside to her madam kochava here's the chairman fitting his hosts goodbye so we said this will be his next to last stop in Iowa he will stop the swine nutrition farm outside of Ames there are the gifts being handed over to the Secret Service hello so we said gifts were presented to the official party a cookbook for mrs. Khrushchev oh and a goalbound history book for the Chairman an enthusiastic crowd outside greeting the party as they come back outside students probably typical of Moscow University and they will be as eager to get a glimpse of President our when he arrives in the Russian capital a big crowd on hand Highway Patrol restraining the crowd keeping them back a slight press conference going on as mr. Khrushchev is confronted by members of the press we say mr. Lodge in the background crews job you recall yesterday at the steps of the hotel Fort Des Moines did not want to go in right away decided to wait out in front and he permitted a press conference looks like members of the Iowa State daily newspaper gathered around getting some comments from him on his true through the Home Economics building now the press conference is over the Chairman moving toward the car that will take him on a hurried trip around the University campus on the campus he will see a practice football field will move by the largest men's dormitory in the world friley Hall he will see a large Memorial Union student won't Memorial Union he got a glimpse of it when he first arrived at the University he will see the dairy industry building you will see the agronomy building he will see the cattle barns on his tour around the University campus Cabot's a shame that he doesn't have two or three hours to spend on the campus oh yes if if he could get into some of our manufacturing setup such as the dairy industry building if he could go out to our nutrition farms and see some of the work in feeding of particularly the beef cattle and the breeding work as far as our spine is concerned and also our corn breeding out on our agronomy farm it would be very very helpful and desirable to have a man of his caliber see the kind of competition that his people are up against here are the Selective Service Secret Service people of getting the caravan in order see the sheriff of storey County was more or less the head of the getting the cars in order for the parade around the campus the cars are starting to move it's not known just exactly how long it will take for the group to tour the unit to tour the campus and then move on out to the swine nutrition farm will be a matter of four or five minutes but time they leave the campus the time they get to the nutrition farm president Hilton is going to accompany the group on its tour to the swine nutrition farm as well as Dean Floyd Andre of course if the swine nutrition farm they will be met by other iowa state university officials interested in that department to explain to him actually what is going on here see the students breaking from the crowd and possibly moving to a better advantage point to get look at mr. Khrushchev you
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Record added: 2026-06-01 13:26:50