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13167_8912_bridge_climber

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1955
B&W

Newsreel clips: Wide shot of bridge in New York City over the East River. Close up of Clau(?) Samuel A. Rumpenin(?), a Finnish man wanting to draw attention to his deportation appeal, climbs and walks along the bridge girders. Photographers and crowd watch from bottom of bridge, until a bridge worker traps him. A group of bridge workers tie him up and lower him to the ground, where police lead him to back of a police van. Pope Pius XII stands on balcony in front of cheering crowd after recoverig from illness. President Eisenhower stands in front of American flag and blind covered window. Eisenhower rides in a car, then walks along what looks to be a marching band during his vacation in Denver. Other vacation clips: golfing, in river catching mountain trout, opening Christmas presents with family. Shot of Fitzsimons Army Hospital sign, then shot of the hospital itself (Eisenhower was rushed there when he had a heart attack.) Reporters in Summer Whitehouse (Lowry Air Force Base) sit at desks typing, reading or talking, and one man rushes down aisle in “whirlwind of activity.”