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Communist China Release Robert Mccann 1961
Description
Location Hong Kong
Title reads "Red China's release Robert McCann"
Story about Communist China releasing US citizen Robert McCann after ten years imprisonment.
Various shots of Robert McCann on stretcher at the Hong Kong border after his release from Communist imprisonment....
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Matt
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 86217
- Sort Number:
- UN 3473 E
- Time in/Out:
- 01:39:38:00 / 01:40:22:00
- Canister:
- UN 3473 E
- Film ID:
- 3020.15
- Issue Date:
- 1961
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- China 1911-76
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