Live coverage of Winston Churchill honorary citizenship ceremony

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Date
1963-04-09
Summary
Winston Churchill is awarded honorary United States citizenship in a ceremony held in the White House rose garden; President Kennedy makes a speech; Randolf Churchill accepts the award for his 88-year-old father; Winston Churchill watches the ceremony on TV via the new satellite system (Sid Davis, Jim Snyder). At 10:20 there is an interruption: a report about Nikita Khrushchev's proposal to exchange inspection teams of nuclear facilities from Jim Anderson in London; Churchill ceremonies continue at 11:16.
Publisher
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company. Group W
Genre
Special events radio coverage
Collection
Group W (Westinghouse Broadcasting Company) audio tapes
Unit
Special Collections and University Archives
Language
English
Rights Statement
In Copyright
Physical Description
sound tape reel
Notes
A guide to the full collection of Group W (Westinghouse Broadcasting Company) audio tapes is available in our archival collections: https://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/43884
Other Identifiers
Catalog Key: bcast-076924; Other: 0492-MMC

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