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JFK campaign spots
DO NOT USE STILLS JFK campaign spots/political advertising for the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy. Henry Fonda supports JFK. He compares JFK to FDR. Details Kennedy's service during WWII in the South Pacific.
JFK campaign spots
JFK campaign spots/political advertising for the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy. JFK addresses the people of Illinois.
JFK campaign spots
JFK campaign spots/political advertising for the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy. JFK addresses the people of Florida.
JFK campaign spots
JFK campaign spots/political advertising for the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy. JFK addresses the people of Missouri.
JFK campaign spots
JFK campaign spots/political advertising for the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy. JFK addresses the people of Ohio.
JFK campaign spots
JFK campaign spots/political advertising for the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy. JFK addresses the people of Washington State.
JFK Assassination Hearings - John & Nellie Connally (Part II)
(02:44:53) Shot opens to Governor JOHN and NELLIE CONNALLY with John testifying that JFK was visiting Texas during his assassination to boost his political popularity, thinking ahead to the 1964 election, he gets fairly detailed in describing JFK's political motivations and says that he, himself, disagreed with JFK visiting at that time (02:47:00) Deputy Chief Counsel GARY T. CORNWELL asks if John Connally was delaying his visit to Texas why didn't JFK just come on his own - John gives long winded explanation that JFK really wanted to gain the support of Connally's constituency and could only do so by letting Connally host him (02:49:00) Cornwell asks why didn't JFK just turn to Vice President Johnson as a native Texan to set him up in Texas - John explains this wouldn't have been enough, they wanted the involvement of the state party machinery (02:50:50) Cornwell asks when it was finally decided that JFK was going to visit - John gives the story of this moment and the initial plans he discussed with JFK
JFK campaign spots
JFK campaign spots/political advertising for the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy. Myrna Loy endorses JFK. She talks about Jackie Kennedy. Excerpts from an interview with Jacqueline, mainly talks about family and children.
JFK Assassination Hearings - John & Nellie Connally (Part II)
(02:54:05) Cornwell confirms the negative political climate in 1963 concerning JFK's support and asks what did John expect to gain out of JFK's visit - John gives a lengthy answer in which he says that the state of Texas is always a hospitable one, he expected to gain more support of the more liberal, JFK supporting democrats, and that he also expected to gain nothing at all from the visit, or at least this did not motivate his reception of it (02:57:25) Cornwells asks for more details about the preparation for JFK's visit after it was officially decided he was to visit Texas - John gives another lengthy response in which he tells the committee about how he really advised JFK as to how to approach his visit, disuading him from too many fund raising dinners which Texans would see as the "financial rape of the state", he also mentions seeing Johnson after meeting with JFK and he explains that Johnson was upset at not first being consulted (before JFK) about planning the visit - John then talks a little bit about the groups of people JFK was to meet, who he describes as moderates and conservatives, business people, who did not support JFK (03:04:40) John explains at length that JFK's trip to Texas was not about resolving differences within the Democratic party involving Senator YARBOROUGH (?) and Vice President LYNDON JOHNSON and goes on to explain how compromises and shifts in plans were made to accomodate everybody's agendas
Dealey Plaza after assassination of JFK
Same as catalog #540166 Dealey Plaza after assassination of JFK TLSs crowd of mourners at Dealey Plaza after assassination of JFK; wreaths, flowers. Great aerial shot of Dealey Plaza, rail yards, highway overpass, Texas School Book Depository, etc. Panning MS mourners looking at cordoned-off display of wreaths. CU wreath: "Our beloved President, John F. Kennedy-- Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
JFK Assassination Hearings - Robert Groden
JFK Assassination Hearings - Robert Groden
Dealey Plaza after assassination of JFK
Same as catalog #497438 Dealey Plaza after assassination of JFK TLSs crowd of mourners at Dealey Plaza after assassination of JFK; wreaths, flowers. Great aerial shot of Dealey Plaza, rail yards, highway overpass, Texas School Book Depository, etc. Panning MS mourners looking at cordoned-off display of wreaths. CU wreath: "Our beloved President, John F. Kennedy-- Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
JFK Assassination HSCA Hearings
House Select Committee on Assassinations hearing on the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, Committee Chief Counsel G. Robert Blakey discussing witness accounts of bullets striking different points in Dealey Plaza: two witnesses said they saw bullets striking the pavement on Elm St. Blakey introduces JFK exhibit F-649, statement by Royce Skelton to Dallas County Sheriff Department. Skelton was standing with Austin Miller on train trestle that crosses Elm Street; Skelton heard what he thought was fireworks and saw something hit the pavement at the rear of President Kennedy’s car. JFK’s car got into right-hand lane and Skelton heard two more shots. Skelton then heard a fourth shot and saw the bullet hit the pavement in the left or middle lane. Blakey introduces JFK exhibit F-650, Royce Skelton’s testimony before the Warren Commission; Skelton said he saw smoke rise from the pavement where a bullet hit, and he had thought the gunfire came from the area of the presidential limousine. Skelton saw a bullet hit on the cement at the left-front of JFK’s car. Skelton said he saw smoke from the southwest in line with the Texas School Book Depository.
JFK and Jackie
JFK and Jackie John F Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy posing for camera at Hyannis Port.
JFK Assassination Hearings - Robert Groden
Goldsmith asks what basis did the Warren Commission have for the timing of the shots - Groden answers the Zapruder film and explains. Goldsmith asks what frame JFK shows a reaction - Groden answers and then explains other frame when JFK hit in the head, he then explains the minimum time necessary to fire and re-fire Mannlicher-Carcano rifle.
JFK Assassination Hearings - Robert Groden
Goldsmith asks what wounds were attributed to the two bullets the Warren Commission believes hit the limousine - Groden describes the targets and paths of the two bullets, one exploding the head of JFK the other taking the route of the single bullet theory through JFK's neck and the body, wrist and thigh of Governor JOHN CONNALLY.
JFK Assassination HSCA Hearings
House Select Committee on Assassinations Chief Counsel G. Robert Blakey introduces JFK exhibit F-661 at hearing on the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Adult Caucasian female staff member displays enlarged photograph of activity on the Grassy Knoll after President Kennedy was assassinated; man (William Eugene Newman Jr) covering his child, people running. Blakey introduces a copy of Newman’s statement to the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department as JFK exhibit F-645; the Newmans where observing JFK’s motorcade near the curb from the west end of the concrete on Elm St.; Newman fell down on the grass after the shots were fired because it seemed they were in the direct path of fire; Newman thought the shot came from the garden behind him on an elevation from where he was; Newman did not recall looking back towards the Texas School Book Depository.
JFK campaign spots
DO NOT USE STILLS JFK campaign spots/political advertising for the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy.
JFK campaign spots
DO NOT USE STILLS JFK campaign spots/political advertising for the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy.
JFK Assassination Hearings - Larry Sturdivan (Conclusion)
JFK Assassination Hearings - Larry Sturdivan (Conclusion)
JFK Assassination HSCA Hearings
House Select Committee on Assassinations Chief Counsel G. Robert Blakey continues discussing witness testimony to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, including the testimony of Dallas police officer Bobby W. Hargis, who was riding a motorcycle to the left rear of Kennedy’s car and questioned by Warren Commission Counsel Samuel A. Stern. Blakey introduces JFK exhibit F-644, the Warren Commission testimony of Officer Hargis. Hargis said he was next to Jacqueline Kennedy when he heard the first shot, at which time JFK bent over and Texas Governor Connally turned around; Hargis said that when JFK straightened up, a bullet hit his head, and it seemed like JFK’s head exploded and Hargis was splattered with blood and brains. When asked about the direction of the shots, Hargis said at the time of the shooting he felt like the shots could have come from the railroad overpass, but also had a feeling they might have come from the Texas School Book Depository, adding that those two places could have been the primary shooting spot. At the time of the shooting he saw a man fall at the base of “the incline” (of the Grassy Knoll) and cover his child.
JFK campaigning in the Midwest
JFK campaigning in the Midwest Large crowd gathered in town square. John F Kennedy walking onto crowded platform, waving and smiling. JFK speaking to crowd (buzz throughout speech) "I come today and present to you a clear alternate between the Republican party and the Democratic Party, between the party of progress and the party of standing still, between the party that looks ahead and the party that says we ought to stay where we are. I ask your help in this campaign not nearly because it affects our party but because that this is the most dangerous time in the life of our country. I don't think we could possibly afford to stand still."
Speeches of JFK
Newsreel regarding the Democratic primary in Wisconsin, 1960: EST shot JFK headquarters; shots of posters, billboards and signs promoting Sen. John F. Kennedy or Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey; MSs white people in polling station, voting; MSs of Senators Kennedy and Humphrey (separately) pressing flesh, meeting the people.
JFK Assassination Hearings - John & Nellie Connally (Part II)
(03:19:15) John describes the actual visit to Texas and the activities it included (03:20:15) Cornwell asks if JFK's meeting with civic and business groups was met with resistance - John responds that there were other events for more diverse crowds (03:21:20) Cornwell asks who had had disagreements with JFK's agenda in Texas - John responds that JFK's people and his own people were in conflict at times over little details of the trip, then suddenly off-handedly John says the motorcade in Dallas was one of those points of conflict, sort of the climax, John adds, of tension between the groups (03:23:08) Cornwell asks why John opposed the motorcade in Dallas - John says that he thought it would be too tiring for JFK who already had a jam packed schedule and goes on to give a convincing description of the energy involved and the experience of being in a motorcade, John says his other reason for his not wanting a motorcade was the fear of embarrassing demonstrations or groups of picketers slandering the president, he decribes one such protestor on the Dallas motorcade and JFK's reaction to him