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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Presents the Nixon Visit
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1972Item number (ISN):295190Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE / GENDARMERIE ROYALE DU CANADAAccession:1993-0281Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Production date:1972Production company:National Film Board of Canada
Royal Canadian Mounted PoliceProduction credit:director/photography, Tony Wagstaff; producer, Denis Sawyer; photography, D.F. GuerrettDescription:This film documents the preparations by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to safeguard American president Richard Nixon during his three-day visit to Ottawa. Opening sequences depict the positioning of the officers in relation to Nixon's motorcade route through Ottawa. Also footage of student and militant protestors such as the World Socialist Front and the Communist Party of Canada. The narrator states that Arthur H. Bremmer, who later shot Governor George Wallace, was present on Parliament Hill during Nixon's second day. The frame focuses on Bremmer in the crowd and an arrow is used to identify him.Language:EnglishDetailed holdings information: -
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