The alleged[1] shoe-banging incident occurred when Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, pounded his shoe on his delegate-desk in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong during the 902nd Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly held in New York City on 12 October 1960.[2][3][4]
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.[1] However, in his biography of Khrushchev, he wrote that he accepted that the shoe-banging had occurred.[5] There is at least one fake photograph, where a shoe was added into an existing photograph.[6]
- ^ a b Taubman, William (26 July 2003). "Did he bang it?: Nikita Khrushchev and the shoe". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 21 February 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
- ^ Carlson, Peter (2010). K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist. Read How You Want. pp. 408–412. ISBN 9781458772466 – via Google Books.
- ^ Ingrassia, Michele (6 December 1988). "Krushchev brought chaos to UN in 1960". The Milwaukee Journal. Newsday. p. 87.[dead link]
- ^ Taubman, William (2003), Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, W.W. Norton & Co., pp. 475–476, 657, ISBN 978-0-393-32484-6
- ^ Taubman, William (2003), Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, W.W. Norton & Co., p. 657, ISBN 978-0-393-32484-6
- ^ Bals, Fred (15 July 2009). "K Blows Top!". Dreamtime. Archived from the original on 3 October 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2023.