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WWII - 1941, USA: German Consul Officials ousted by US, 15Jul41; America First Committee

Reel Number: 220439-10

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1941,1940s

Country: Germany,USA

Location: La Guardia Airport,New York City,NYC,Washington, DC

TC Begins: 07:16:35

TC Ends: 07:26:57

Duration: 00:10:22

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1941, USA: German Consul Officials ousted by US, 15Jul41; America First Committee Ousted German Consular officials arrive at LaGuardia Airport. Shots Captain Fritz Wiedmann, former German Consul General in San Francisco & Dr. Johannes Bacher, Former German Consul General in New York arriving. Men laughing & smiling. Unloading baggage loaded carts pushed. 07:19:21 Pier 61 NYC. Sailing of Naval transport ship Westpoint which will carry ousted German Consuls and Italian Consul A.V. Yannelli who for 30 years was Italian Consul at Johnstown Pa. to Lisbon Pier entrance w/ friends of passengers & reporters. Police outside building. Reporters around arriving taxi pulling into shipping line dock building. People waiting w/ West Side Highway in background. More taxiis arrive amid reporters & photographers. Per card: Dr. Manfred Zapp in car, American manager of Transocean News Service. Gunther Tonn (covering face) also of T.N.S. 07:20:27 Tug & two-stack liner USS West Point aka SS America leaving pier & moving into river. 07:21:05 Ext. of dock building w/ reporters & photographers waiting, talking. Car & moving van arrives. Man carrying two suitcases. Other cars. 07:22:02 MS West Point leaving dock, tugs turn it into river; barges passing 07:23:34 Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio out of building & buys newspaper from boy, gets into car. tVarious takes of getting paper & CU. car leaving. 07:24:24 Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota in office looking at photographs with unid. man. CUs. 07:25:26 Shots of photos of Nazi atrocities & starving children. 07:26:13 Exterior LS of three-story mansion / mid-block house w/ offices of America First Committee, no 120 above door. MS man entering. WW2; Diplomacy; Expulsions; Diplomats; Politics; NOTE: SS America carried two Duquesne Spy Ring Nazi spies in her crew prior to ship being taken over in 1941 for use as the troop ship USS West Point. NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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