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Sept. 19, 1959: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev arrives in Los Angeles.
Photograph by the Los Angeles Police Department
Four tiers of scaffolding are set up for photographers and TV cameras, which are already in place. Khrushchev's travels required three aircraft: One for the Soviet leader and his entourage, another carrying the press and a third hauling luggage, The Times said. |
 Photograph by the Los Angeles Police Department Reporters and observers (is that Paul Coates on the left?) stand along a chain-link fence, separated from the U.S. military plane carrying Khrushchev and his entourage. Because the State Department failed to send press credentials to Los Angeles in time, only reporters with LAPD press passes were admitted, the Mirror-News reported.
 Photograph by the Los Angeles Police Department
Police Chief William H. Parker, center-right, inspects the Cadillac Fleetwood limousine that will carry Khrushchev to Twentieth Century Fox studios for lunch. The Cadillac (note the whip antenna on the rear bumper) was replaced with a Chrysler Imperial for Khrushchev's trip to the Ambassador Hotel.
 Photograph by the Los Angeles Police Department
With a row of officers lining the interior perimeter, a Chevrolet station wagon leads the plane carrying Khrushchev to the reception area. The aircraft is now at the Museum of Flight south of downtown Seattle.  Photograph by Art Rogers / Los Angeles Times Nina Khrushchev receives a bouquet of bird of paradise, the official flower of Los Angeles.
 Photograph by Ben Olender / Los Angeles Times
Khrushchev stands near a microphone that has been set up for him.
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 Photograph by the Los Angeles Police Department
Khrushchev at the microphone.
 Los Angeles Times file photo
Translator Oleg Troyanovsky, center, delivers remarks on behalf of Nikita Khrushchev as Nina Khrushchev listens.  Photograph by Art Rogers / Los Angeles Times
Khrushchev waves his hat to the crowd.
Next stop: Twentieth Century Fox! |
