https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/f8b1f58e-7831-4d03-ae88-5b6ddc3dc63e Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Website: www.PeriscopeFilm.com These silent newsreels were created by Off Network Productions, a New York company created by producer and media magnate Gerald Bartell, using an archive compiled by Merton Koplin. The company distributed these films to TV stations around the United States, where they were used as fillers, and to present historical events and personalities to the public. Bartell referred to the films as a "visual encyclopedia". 0:00 Film 1083: St Patrick's Day annual parade, New York City, 1957. Includes comments at :44 by the Mayor of Dublin Robert Briscoe who wears the Lord Mayor Chain of King William of Orange. Briscoe was a member of the Fianna Fáil political party and was the first Jewish person to hold the position of Lord Mayor. 1:49 Film 1084: John Foster Dulles speaks about Communism in 1957. This was Dulles first major foreign policy speech of the second Eisenhower administration to the associated press annual luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. In his half hour speech, Dulles argued that the USA is the only free world country able to pay the cost of deterring the Soviet Union. 3:33 Film 1085 Johnny Dio testifies in front of Congress about James Hoffa. Giovanni Ignazio Dioguardi, known as John "Johnny Dio" Dioguardi, was an Italian-American organized crime figure and a labor racketeer. He is known for being involved in the acid attack which led to the blinding of newspaper columnist Victor Riesel, and for his role in creating fake labor union locals to help Jimmy Hoffa become General President of the Teamsters. Beginning in 1955, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations began holding hearings into labor racketeering. Senator John L. McClellan, chair of the committee and chair of the subcommittee, hired Robert F. Kennedy as the subcommittee's chief counsel and investigator. Dioguardi became an object of the subcommittee's inquiries in March 1956. 4:44 Film 1088: President Dwight Eisenhower State Of The Union address, January 10, 1957, and makes comments about the economy and agricultural sector. 6:06 Film 1094: President Dwight Eisenhower, October 16, 1958, condemns Confederate Underground bombers of synagogues as “gangsters”. "From babyhood I was raised to respect the word ‘Confederate’ very highly, I might add, and for hoodlums such as these to describe themselves as any part or any relation to the Confederacy of the mid-19th Century is, to my mind, a complete insult to the word. Indeed, they should be described as nothing but Al Capones and Baby Face Nelsons and that kind of hoodlum." Note: Between November 11, 1957, and October 14, 1958, there were five bombings and three attempted bombings of synagogues, seven in the Southern United States and one in the Midwest United States. There were no deaths or injuries. White supremacists, such as the Confederate Underground, were opposed to Jewish support for integration and believed that integration was a Jewish plot to ruin America. 7:33 Film 1091: World Series 1957 New York Yankees vs. Milwaukee Braves. This was the 54th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the American League (AL) champion and defending World Series champion New York Yankees against the National League (NL) champion Milwaukee Braves; the Braves won the series in four games. 9:40 Film 1093 : Army vs Notre Dame Football Game 1957. Notre Dame defeated Army 23-21 on October 12, 1957, in a game played in Philadelphia, PA. The game was a close contest, decided by a field goal, and was the last time Army beat Notre Dame. 11:00 Film 1096: North Carolina Defeats Kansas NCAA Finals 1957. The North Carolina Tar Heels defeated the Kansas Jayhawks 54-53 in triple overtime to win the 1957 NCAA Championship, completing an undefeated 32-0 season. The victory was secured by Joe Quigg, who made two foul shots with six seconds left and then blocked a final pass to Wilt Chamberlain. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. 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