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{"value"=>"V00104", "type"=>"local_mss_av"}
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{"value"=>"1964", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1964"}
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1964
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1964
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1964
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1964
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1964
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{"value"=>"Herbert Mitgang: \"D-Day Plus 20 Years: Eisenhower... \""}
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"B/W Video VHS tape"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Walter Cronkite interviews President Eisenhower as he tours Normandy twenty years after the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. This special report for CBS News was viewed on 22 networks in 19 countries. The piece opens with a discussion of the planning of the attack in the actual war room. This is followed by a retracing of the route, by boat, to Normandy at 22: 30. Eisenhower recounts the difficulties they faced at 29: 00. Omaha Beach, the target, is looked at 39: 00. The armaments of both sides are discussed at 43: 00. Eisenhower trades war stories with Madame Simone Rideau, wife of the then mayor of Eglise, a city in Normandy at 52: 45. This documentary is supplemented with footage of the attack and of audio tracks of Eisenhower's speeches.</p>"}