Rally Becomes Riot AKA Fight At Mendes-France… 1957

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FIGHT AT MENDES-FRANCE RALLY

Paris, France.

GV. People seated and gathered at the meeting at the Palais des Sports of the Mendes-France Republican Front. LV. Platform, bomb has exploded on it and smoke is going up into the air and there are flames round the bomb. GV. Meeting as two...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
32500
Sort Number:
57/006
Time in/Out:
01:42:33:00 / 01:43:57:00
Canister:
57/6
Film ID:
627.32
Issue Date:
17/01/1957

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