Channel 2 News Round-Up (1959)

Duration: 15:44

Year Published: 1959

Sound: sound

Description: This compilation of television news footage highlights an array of leading news stories from 1959. Capturing primarily national and international events, most if not all of the segments were most likely not shot by Houston’s KPRC-TV but rather broadcast on the channel as part of its news programming. Featured stories include the “Kitchen Debate” between Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev, the inauguration of French President Charles de Gaulle, a national steelworkers strike, Congressional testimony from union boss Jimmy Hoffa, and the Eddie Fisher-Elizabeth Taylor scandal.