RUDOLPH HESS (1894-1987)

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Event Date(s): 08/17/1987 | Event Location(s): West Berlin; Berlin; Nuremberg; Russia; Glasgow; Spandau; West Germany; Germany; Scotland | Description: RUDOLPH HESS (1894-1987) B&W FOOTAGE OF RUDOLPH HESS LEADING SHOUTS OF ZIEG HEIL FOR ADOLPH HITLER & SHAKING HITLERS HAND AT RALLY SEEN. B&W STILLS OF HITLER BEHIND PRISON BARS (1923) & POSED WITH HESS (HIGHLIGHTED BY CIRCLE) & OTHERS SEEN. B&W CLIPS OF TORCH-BEARING NAZI RALLIERS & AERIALS OF TORCH-CARRIERS FORMING SWASTIKA INSIGNIA AT NIGHTTIME RALLY SEEN. B&W CLIPS OF ASSEMBLAGE GIVING NAZI SALUTE AS HITLER ENTERS HALL; HESS STANDING WITH HITLER AT MILITARY REVIEW; & HESS GIVING SPEECH TO HUGE THRONG SEEN. PANNING CU SHOTS OF NAZI OFFICERS LISTENING TO HESS'S SPEECH SEEN. IN INTERVIEW HISTORIAN LORD DACRES SAYS HESS WAS A HAS-BEEN KEPT ON FOR OLD TIMES SAKE BY THE TIME WAR BROKE OUT IN 1939. B&W STILL OF HESS FOLLOWING HIS INFAMOUS PARACHUTE LANDING IN SCOTLAND FOR UNAUTHORIZED PEACE MISSION (1941) SEEN. B&W MAP OF EUROPE DEPICTING ROUTE OF HESSS FLIGHT FROM GERMANY TO GLASGOW; SCOTLAND& DAILY RECORD FRONT PAGE STORY ON HESS'S LANDING SEEN. B&W CLIPS OF BRITISH SOLDIERS HOLDING UP WING SECTION OF HESS'S WRECKED PLANE & WALKING AMIDST WRECKAGE SEEN. B&W FOOTAGE OF HITLER WITH NAZI GENERALS IN BERLIN WAR ROOM SEEN. INVADING GERMAN SOLDIERS IN RUSSIA WALKING THROUGH ROUGH TERRAIN & DIGGING VEHICLE OUT OF SNOW SEEN. IN 45 HESS TAKES SEAT AT NUREMBERG TRIAL AS JUDGES ARE SEEN. EMOTIONALLY STRICKEN HESS SEEN IN COURTROOM. B&W CLIP OF HESS WALKING GROUNDS OF SPANDAU PRISON SEEN. IN INTERVIEW SPANDAU PRISON WARDEN RETIRED COLONEL EUGENE BIRD SAYS HESS HAD A DOG-LIKE DEVOTION TO HIS FUHRER; ADDING THAT TO HESS HITLER WAS A GOD. BLURRED IMAGES OF HESS AT SPANDAU IN SMUGGLED FILM CLIP SEEN. MILLER VO SIGNS OFF FROM (WEST) BERLIN. 87H0762 3-4 CS; 87G1236 3-4 CS; 87H0763 M-II FEED; FILE PIX& STILLS; HESS IN PLANE; STILLS AS BOY; VARIOUS OFFICER STILLS; HESS WITH WIFE; & SPANDAU IN LATER YEARS TA; UNABLE TO ESTABLISH ALL EXACT DATES; LOCATIONS; & IDS Producers: NBC