Ralph Bunche & Family After Winning 1950 Nobel Peace Prize
CU Si. Ralph Bunche holding card from son congratulating him on getting the Nobel Prize & pan to boy, back to card. MS Bunche at desk looking letters (brief). Bunche looking at letters, looks at camera; at letters.
13:33:44 Sd. MCU w/ son, says to him SOF: Of all the congratulatory messages...this is the very best...
13:34:05 CU smiling, SOF: It is very nice to receive these...I am deeply honored by this award, but my happiness is in no way in causing me to forget that whatever I was able to do in Palestine was a result of the fact that I was backed by the great international peace organization, the United Nations; by the Secretary General Mr. Trygve Lie, by a great & loyal & hardworking staff of more than 700 international civil servants. I am very happy that this award came to me as a result of my work in & for the United Nations.
13:35:26 CU repeat of similar statement...for the Nobel Peace Prize for this year...
13:36:08 CU repeat similar w/ some variation.
13:38:11 MS Bunche holding son’s card seated w/ wife, son & daughter standing. CUs of wife.
1950; Ethnic; Blacks; African-Americans; Near East 1949 Armistice Agreement; Arab-Israeli Conflict; UN Mediator;
NOTE: has light nitrate decomposition printed into film prior to transfer. Probably filmed while teaching at Harvard 1950-1952.
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Ralph Bunche & Family After Winning 1950 Nobel Peace Prize CU Si. Ralph Bunche holding card from son congratulating him on getting the Nobel Prize & pan to boy, back to card. MS Bunche at desk looking letters (brief). Bunche looking at letters, looks at camera; at letters. 13:33:44 Sd. MCU w/ son, says to him SOF: Of all the congratulatory messages...this is the very best... 13:34:05 CU smiling, SOF: It is very nice to receive these...I am deeply honored by this award, but my happiness is in no way in causing me to forget that whatever I was able to do in Palestine was a result of the fact that I was backed by the great international peace organization, the United Nations; by the Secretary General Mr. Trygve Lie, by a great & loyal & hardworking staff of more than 700 international civil servants. I am very happy that this award came to me as a result of my work in & for the United Nations. 13:35:26 CU repeat of similar statement...for the Nobel Peace Prize for this year... 13:36:08 CU repeat similar w/ some variation. 13:38:11 MS Bunche holding son’s card seated w/ wife, son & daughter standing. CUs of wife. 1950; Ethnic; Blacks; African-Americans; Near East 1949 Armistice Agreement; Arab-Israeli Conflict; UN Mediator; NOTE: has light nitrate decomposition printed into film prior to transfer. Probably filmed while teaching at Harvard 1950-1952.