Summaries

NBC news team headed by Commentator Chet Huntley along with skillfully edited film clips (all shot by NBC cameramen) took the TV audience into the dangerous neighborhood of the East Berlin anti-Red riots of 1953, called back the high, droning traffic of the airlift of 1948-49. Then there were the refugees of today, a steady, hopeful stream, explaining their flight on their first afternoon of freedom. And there was Willy Brandt, the mayor, spelling out his startling theory that there may have been too many refugees, that Moscow might flood East Germany with Russians and Poles: this in turn would make it harder than ever to achieve a free, united Germany.

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Keywords
  • tv special
Genres
  • News
Release date May 7, 1959
Countries of origin United States
Official sites television archive
Language English
Production companies National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

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Color Black and White
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