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During the 902nd Plenary Meeting of the [[United Nations General Assembly]] held in [[New York City]] on 12 October 1960, [[Nikita Khrushchev]], [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]], was alleged to have pounded his shoe on his delegate-desk in protest at a speech by [[Philippines|Philippine]] delegate [[Lorenzo Sumulong]].[{{cite book |author=Carlson |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LPSruIbe5CUC&pg=PA408 |title=K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist |publisher=Read How You Want |year=2010 |isbn=9781458772466 |pages=408–412 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}][{{cite news |author=Ingrassia |first=Michele |date=6 December 1988 |title=Krushchev brought chaos to UN in 1960 |page=87 |newspaper=[[The Milwaukee Journal]] |agency=Newsday |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19881206&id=xnYfAAAAIBAJ&pg=3746,7968791}}{{Dead link|date=June 2023}}][{{citation | last = Taubman | first = William | year = 2003 | title = Khrushchev: The Man and His Era | publisher = W.W. Norton & Co. | isbn = 978-0-393-32484-6|pages=475–476, 657 | title-link = Khrushchev: The Man and His Era }}] |
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During the 902nd Plenary Meeting of the [[United Nations General Assembly]] held in [[New York City]] on 12 October 1960, [[Nikita Khrushchev]], [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]], was alleged to have pounded his shoe on his delegate-desk in protest at a speech by [[Philippines|Philippine]] delegate [[Lorenzo Sumulong]].[{{cite book |author=Carlson |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LPSruIbe5CUC&pg=PA408 |title=K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist |publisher=Read How You Want |year=2010 |isbn=9781458772466 |pages=408–412 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}][{{cite news |author=Ingrassia |first=Michele |date=6 December 1988 |title=Krushchev brought chaos to UN in 1960 |page=87 |newspaper=[[The Milwaukee Journal]] |agency=Newsday |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19881206&id=xnYfAAAAIBAJ&pg=3746,7968791}}{{Dead link|date=June 2023}}][{{citation | last = Taubman | first = William | year = 2003 | title = Khrushchev: The Man and His Era | publisher = W.W. Norton & Co. | isbn = 978-0-393-32484-6|pages=475–476, 657 | title-link = Khrushchev: The Man and His Era }}] |
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In 2003, American scholar [[William Taubman]] reported that he had interviewed some eyewitnesses who said that Khrushchev had brandished his shoe but not banged it. He also reported that no photographic or video records of the shoe-banging had been found. name="NY Times 2003">{{cite news |author=Taubman |first=William |date=26 July 2003 |title=Did he bang it?: Nikita Khrushchev and the shoe |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/26/opinion/26iht-edtaubman_ed3_.html |url-status=live |accessdate=28 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221173301/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/26/opinion/IHT-did-he-bang-it-nikita-khrushchev-and-the-shoe.html |archive-date=21 February 2022}} However, in his biography of Khrushchev, he wrote that he accepted that the shoe-banging had occurred.[{{citation | last = Taubman | first = William | year = 2003 | title = Khrushchev: The Man and His Era | publisher = W.W. Norton & Co. | isbn = 978-0-393-32484-6|page= 657 | title-link = Khrushchev: The Man and His Era }}] |
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In 2003, American scholar [[William Taubman]] in his biography of Khrushchev reported that after interviewing eyewitnesses, despite the conflicting accounts and with full historiographical humility, he had adopted the view that the shoe was not only brandished but banged. He also reported that no photographic or video records of the shoe-banging had been found.[{{citation | last = Taubman | first = William | year = 2003 | title = Khrushchev: The Man and His Era | publisher = W.W. Norton & Co. | isbn = 978-0-393-32484-6|page= 657 | title-link = Khrushchev: The Man and His Era }}] |
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