Top News Stories Of 1952

Top News Stories Of 1952 Crowds of American voters - Eisenhower campaign speech “...with speed and honour I shall go to Korea” - applause - neon news in Times Square ? ‘Eisenhower Elected’ - Ike & wife cheered onto stage. 16:50:39 Ike off plane in Korea - reviews troops. 16:51:01 Truman seizes steel industry after strikes - Judge Pine rules against President in court battle. 16:51:28 Death of King George VI - Princess Elizabeth reviews Royal Guard on horseback. 16:52:05 Riots over Suez Canal & Sudan occupation. King Farouk exiled after Egyptian military coup. 16:52:34 Nationalization of British oil in Iran - demonstration - Mosaddegh at the Hague. 16:53:07 Devastated buildings in Elizabeth, New Jersey, after air crash. Wreckage of plane which crashed on West coast killing 86 GIs. British jet explodes over air show killing 29 - engine hurtles into crowd. Rescue operation among wreckage of trains which collided outside London - 200 dead. US freighter Flying Enterprise sinks off English coast w/ Captain Carlsson hailed as hero. 16:54:31 Rebellion of 20,000 Communist prisoners at Korean PoW camp on Koje Island - UN guards throw smoke bombs. 87 North Korean prisoners killed during violence on Pongam Island - rioters marched away by armed guards. 16:55:01 Damage from prison riots in Michigan & New Jersey. 16:55:21 US explodes hydrogen bomb - Marshall Islands ? Korean War. Nuclear / Atomic Warfare. Anti-Communism. Disasters.