Nkrumah Sees Moscow 1961

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Full title reads: "Nkrumah Sees Moscow".

Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union (USSR).

GV crowds gathered at Vnukono airport to welcome Dr Kwame Nkrumah (Prime Minister of Ghana). LV pan Nkrumah walks down steps from his Russian built aircraft and he embraces Nikita Khrushchev twice. SV Ghanian...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
53755
Sort Number:
61/059
Time in/Out:
01:20:05:00 / 01:21:33:00
Canister:
61/59
Film ID:
1732.15
Issue Date:
24/07/1961

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