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International News Photos Thirty-Three Die in Airliner Crash

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09677.16 Author/Creator: International News Photos Place Written: Paris, France Type: Photograph Date: 23 November 1956 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 17.7 cm, Width: 23 cm Order a Copy

One wirephoto released by International News Photos dated November 7, 1956. Shows a plane sitting on tarmac in Paris. The attached press release reports that the plane is a DC-6, the same type of plane that crashed near Paris killing at least thirty-three people. The photo is stamped on the back with International News Photos information.

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