USIA Television TV Satellite File No. 5000 (sic): Special Report, Grenada Update
00:22:19 Grenada, October 1983 Tanks & troop carriers down St. George main street w/ soldiers riding on top during New Jewel Party Socialist revolution of Maurice Bishop. Fort Rupert w/ damaged roof, bullet holes in walls, wall w/ picture of Che Guevara. Footage taken on Oct. 9 of village, clock tower w/ stopped clock, troops thru streets. Guns firing & people jumping & falling off wall of Fort.
00:23:40 Int. Governor General Paul Scoon at office desk; speaking to camera.
00:23:59 OECS troops out of helicopters on field & running w/ packs & rifles. Fighter jets overhead.
00:24:26 US (?) troops firing artillery. US & other foreign medical students past camera waving & smiling. US troops, captured prisoners. Troops display cases of rockets & other military equipment & ammunition. Journalists & cameramen shown rocket launchers etc.
00:25:58 Sign: Soviet made combat personnel carrier amphibious model... on vehicle. Anti-aircraft gun demonstrated.
00:26:33 Grenada One Year Later (1984) Aerial over water & harbor of village. Tropical palm trees, beaches. local swimmers & divers for tourists. Cruise ship, tourists walking along ocean front. Traffic, people shopping, people at market stalls.
00:27:36 Governor General Paul Scoon speaking to camera.
00:28:00 Shots of island town(s); Scoon. Harbor & shipping. Men moving large burlap bags. Charles McIntire, president of Chamber of Commerce sitting in lawn chair speaking to camera (narrator describes). Men repairing streets by hand, pedestrians past. Small roller.
00:29:50 Free Election. Nicolas Braithwaite, head of interim government & later Prime Minister (1990-1995), interviewed on lawn. Election volunteers; taking identity photograph of young woman, punching out & putting on identification card. CU filing in drawer. Man interviewed. Paul Scoon.
00:31:54 A Moderate Coalition? Narrator describes what is said by Herbert Blaize Prime Minister from 1984 till death in 1989). Men painting on wall “1983 Year of Liberation We Welcome America” Long Live Grenada. Francis Alexis. Repeat footage of fixing street. Unid. man in CU speaking thru narrator.
00:33:52 A Free Press Men in jail (?), Leslie Pierre, imprisoned for 2 1/2 years for writing about Grenada, talking thru narrator about liberation by Americans. Man on sidewalk showing newspaper to another. Men sitting on table on sidewalk reading newspaper. More explanations about press. Kids selling to cars passing on street. Man buying from sidewalk table.
00:35:55 The Airport & Tourism Men w/ equipment of USA AID program laying pavement. Views of tourist resorts. Man explains thru narrator. Aerial of airport, beach w/ tourists. Tourists (few) walking & swimming. Resort hotel rooms.
Wars - Grenada Invasion; 1980s; Monroe Doctrine; Anti-Communism; Anti-Socialism; Propaganda; 1984;
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USIA Television TV Satellite File No. 5000 (sic): Special Report, Grenada Update 00:22:19 Grenada, October 1983 Tanks & troop carriers down St. George main street w/ soldiers riding on top during New Jewel Party Socialist revolution of Maurice Bishop. Fort Rupert w/ damaged roof, bullet holes in walls, wall w/ picture of Che Guevara. Footage taken on Oct. 9 of village, clock tower w/ stopped clock, troops thru streets. Guns firing & people jumping & falling off wall of Fort. 00:23:40 Int. Governor General Paul Scoon at office desk; speaking to camera. 00:23:59 OECS troops out of helicopters on field & running w/ packs & rifles. Fighter jets overhead. 00:24:26 US (?) troops firing artillery. US & other foreign medical students past camera waving & smiling. US troops, captured prisoners. Troops display cases of rockets & other military equipment & ammunition. Journalists & cameramen shown rocket launchers etc. 00:25:58 Sign: Soviet made combat personnel carrier amphibious model... on vehicle. Anti-aircraft gun demonstrated. 00:26:33 Grenada One Year Later (1984) Aerial over water & harbor of village. Tropical palm trees, beaches. local swimmers & divers for tourists. Cruise ship, tourists walking along ocean front. Traffic, people shopping, people at market stalls. 00:27:36 Governor General Paul Scoon speaking to camera. 00:28:00 Shots of island town(s); Scoon. Harbor & shipping. Men moving large burlap bags. Charles McIntire, president of Chamber of Commerce sitting in lawn chair speaking to camera (narrator describes). Men repairing streets by hand, pedestrians past. Small roller. 00:29:50 Free Election. Nicolas Braithwaite, head of interim government & later Prime Minister (1990-1995), interviewed on lawn. Election volunteers; taking identity photograph of young woman, punching out & putting on identification card. CU filing in drawer. Man interviewed. Paul Scoon. 00:31:54 A Moderate Coalition? Narrator describes what is said by Herbert Blaize Prime Minister from 1984 till death in 1989). Men painting on wall “1983 Year of Liberation We Welcome America” Long Live Grenada. Francis Alexis. Repeat footage of fixing street. Unid. man in CU speaking thru narrator. 00:33:52 A Free Press Men in jail (?), Leslie Pierre, imprisoned for 2 1/2 years for writing about Grenada, talking thru narrator about liberation by Americans. Man on sidewalk showing newspaper to another. Men sitting on table on sidewalk reading newspaper. More explanations about press. Kids selling to cars passing on street. Man buying from sidewalk table. 00:35:55 The Airport & Tourism Men w/ equipment of USA AID program laying pavement. Views of tourist resorts. Man explains thru narrator. Aerial of airport, beach w/ tourists. Tourists (few) walking & swimming. Resort hotel rooms. Wars - Grenada Invasion; 1980s; Monroe Doctrine; Anti-Communism; Anti-Socialism; Propaganda; 1984;