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Eisenhower Leaves Washington on Constellation, 1951

Reel Number: 220987-08

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL and SD

Year / Date: 1951

Country: USA

Location: DC,Washington

TC Begins: 23:45:15

TC Ends: 23:50:23

Duration: 00:05:08

Eisenhower Leaves Washington on Constellation, 1951 06Nov51? MS soldiers and civilians stand next to Gen. Eisenhower’s Lockheed Constellation at MATS terminal; pan across crowd, Ike w/ back to camera kissing unid women in fur coats and young child. Photographers call out. Ike makes brief statement at microphone ‘this has been the busiest two days or three days in my life...”; Ike runs up steps of plane, turns and waves. Officers at door of plane. CU engines emit cloud of smoke as USAF plane taxis away 8614 on tailfin?. LS pan aircraft takes off. CU USAF? crest on plane, ‘Virgilia Pretium Liberatis’. 23:49:07 Ike arrival at air base, speech at microphones, Ike boarding of plane and engines starting viewed from slightly different angles. MS plane taxis L-R. 23:50:05 Ike emerges from limousine followed by Gen. Omar N Bradley; MCU Generals pose for photographers. Korean War?

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