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President Kennedy's Speech At Rice University
MCU President of Rice University Dr. K.S. PITZER continues introducing U.S. Vice President LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON (LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson). MS Johnson approaches podium to speak, "since his inauguration I have seen our President with his energy and his intelligence, his personal warmth, his perception and drive to make life in the United States more meaningful for everbody in many different ways. And always to do what he believed was best for his country. Just as in other things he has put vigor and vitality into the space program and it is my great honor and privelege to be here today and to see the people of the leading space city give such a warm welcome to our President of the United States." MS applauding. MCU Pitzer states that their will be a benediction by a rabbi afterward and that they should remain seated until the President has left and introduces JFK.
George Wallace in Boston
1-1 B&W mag/sof 390' - George Wallace holds Boston news conference prior to his rally. Says his attitude has been distorted and claims he can take Massachusetts. Says he's not looking for the House to decide the election and that he'll get more votes from former Democrats. Says voters will be throwing their votes away by voting for Humphrey and others. Says he voted for JFK in 1960 as said he asked people to vote for him regardless of race, color or religion. Claims the prime issue of the campaign is law and order. (1968)
NASA: the 25th Year
A compilation (highlight reel) of the endeavors of the NASA program from 1959-1983 : JFK Speech MS President JOHN F. KENNEDY speaking about the space program at Rice University, announcing America s intention to land on the moon by the end of the 1960s: "We choose to go to the moon in the decade not b/c they are easy but b/c they are hard. B/c that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills. B/c that challenge is one that we re willing to accept and one we intend to win."
Hemingway SM 41
Interview w/ foreign correspondent, JFK press secretary and former Senator PIERRE SALINGER, conducted by MARGAUX HEMINGWAY and BILL WALTON. Pierre Salinger discusses the romantic myths behind the life of a foreign correspondent and how it relates to the times of Ernest Hemingway. Mr. Salinger discusses the advantages & disadvantages of TV correspondence compared to Hemingway s time. Mr. Salinger says that American policy becomes an integral part of the life of Americans abroad ( you can t escape what your government is doing ). Mr. Salinger addresses the alleged anti-American environment in France. Mr. Salinger discusses the Ritz-Hemingway Prize, its focus, purpose and history.
Kennedy Urges Physical Fitness
Kennedy Urges Physical Fitness Addressing the Football Hall of Fame dinner, the President touches on his career in the armed forces under General Macarthur and the general gets a laugh. He then urges Americans to become participants, exercise and not merely spectators, in sports. Macarthur smoking. Kennedy at podium speaking at dinner. JFK clears throat during speech. The President urges, "In short, what we must do, is literally change the physical habits of millions of Americans, and that is far more difficult than changing their tastes, their fashions or even their politics." Kennedy steps away from podium and those around him stand and applaud.
President Kennedy's Final Hour
CU newspaper headlines. TLS motorcade, MS pan as JFK's white hearse moves past camera. Several MSs people gathered in the street, mourners. MS American Flag flying at half mast. LS mourners gathered. MCU memorial wreath for "Our Beloved President John F. Kennedy". MSs people in morning and paying their respects on the street, people cry, pray and take pictures. CUs funerary flowers. MS four nuns in full habit paying their respects. Several MS studies of people leaving flowers and paying their respects to the fallen President. MS male reporter standing in front of building w/ microphone. MS man behind television camera. MS "Southwestern Bell Telephone" truck w/speakers on top.
Armed Forces Day Promo
Armed Forces Day Promo Presidential Seal, and 'Hail to the Chief' prompt. Segment from President Kennedy s Inaugural Speech. "Let every nation know..." ( 'Power For Peace' within seal on screen ) Armed Forces Day, Open House in May. A reminder to visit with those serving in our armed forces. JFK Speech... "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bare any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. We dare not tempt them with weakness, for only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt, can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed."
B Roll of "The Last Two Days"
Outtakes from "The Last Two Days," a film documenting the last two days in the life of President John F. Kennedy, shot by White House personnel: Aerial of downtown Fort Worth. American flag billowing in wind; Texas state flag billowing in wind. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, holding flowers, and U.S. President John F. Kennedy shaking hands with adult Caucasian men and women on tarmac at Carswell Air Force Base. Kennedys greeting people; Jackie smiling, talking with Lady Bird Johnson as Texas Governor John Connally appears in BG. Jacqueline Kennedy smiling, talking with U.S. Vice-President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson. Texas, U.S. flags billowing. Rear view traveling shot of Presidential motorcade; Kennedys waving from car to crowd-lined street. President Kennedy standing at podium receiving ovation at indoor event; poor lighting. Jackie Kennedy receiving standing ovation as she makes her way to the podium; JFK standing nearby. Close-up of Jackie speaking. Traveling shot of motorcade driving down street in Ft. Worth at night. Applause; poor lighting. VS of President Kennedy speaking at banquet honoring U.S. House Representative Albert Thomas. Night; buildings outlined in lights, clock on top of a building reading 12:19 AM.
B Roll of "The Last Two Days"
Outtakes from "The Last Two Days," a film documenting the last two days in the life of President John F. Kennedy, shot by White House personnel: Aerial of Dallas, Texas. POV out airplane window of runway during landing. Adult Caucasian man, wearing overcoat, standing on Gate 28 lamppost at airport amid crowd of Caucasian males and females; Confederate and Texas flags flying. Air Force One taxiing on tarmac. Man, wearing overcoat, standing on Gate 28 lamppost at airport; Confederate and Texas flags flying. U.S. President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie, de-boarding Air Force One; men and women waiting on the tarmac. Jackie holding bouquet of red roses. JFK and Jackie walking together. Adult Caucasian male press corps taking photographs. Kennedys shaking hands, walking past men and women on the tarmac. VS traveling shots of Presidential motorcade driving on streets; people lining street; adult Caucasian female holding Caucasian male child. Slow-motion shots of adult Caucasian male and female on the ground, each covering a child; Secret Service agents racing to the President's convertible (re-enactment shot).
President Kennedy's Speech At Rice University
MCU U.S. President JOHN F. KENNEDY (JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, John Kennedy) continues U.S., American flag waving in BG, "Newton explored the meaning of gravity. Last month electric lights and telephones and automobiles and airplanes became available. Only last week did we develop penicillin and television and nuclear power, and now if America's new spacecraft succeeds in reaching Venus, we will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight. This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers. Surely the opening vistas of space promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward. So it is not surprising that some would have us stay where we are a little longer to rest, to wait. But this city of Houston, this State of Texas, this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward--and so will space. William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage."
President Kennedy Civil Rights Speech
JFK: "Next week I shall ask the Congress of the United States to act, to make a commitment it has not fully made in this century to the proposition that race has no place in American life or law. The Federal judiciary has upheld that proposition in a series of forthright cases. The executive branch has adopted that proposition in the conduct of its affairs, including the employment of Federal personnel, the use of Federal facilities, and the sale of federally financed housing. But there are other necessary measures which only the Congress can provide, and they must be provided at this session. The old code of equity law under which we live commands for every wrong a remedy, but in too many communities, in too many parts of the country, wrongs are inflicted on Negro citizens and there are no remedies at law. Unless the Congress acts, their only remedy is in the street. I am, therefore, asking the Congress to enact legislation giving all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the public - hotels, restaurants, theaters, retail stores, and similar establishments. This seems to me to be an elementary right. Its denial is an arbitrary indignity that no American in 1963 should have to endure, but many do. I have recently met with scores of business leaders urging them to take voluntary action to end this discrimination and I have been encouraged by their response, and in the last 2 weeks over 75 cities have seen progress made in desegregating these kinds of facilities. But many are unwilling to act alone, and for this reason, nationwide legislation is needed if we are to move this problem from the streets to the courts. I am also asking Congress to authorize the Federal Government to participate more fully in lawsuits designed to end segregation in public education. We have succeeded in persuading many districts to desegregate voluntarily. Dozens have admitted Negroes without violence. Today a Negro is attending a State supported institution in every one of our 50 States, but the pace is very slow. Too many Negro children entering segregated grade schools at the time of the Supreme Court's decision 9 years ago will enter segregated high schools this fall, having suffered a loss which can never be restored. The lack of an adequate education denies the Negro a chance to get a decent job. The orderly implementation of the Supreme Court decision, therefore, cannot be left solely to those who may not have the economic resources to carry the legal action or who may be subject to harassment."
Elections: Democrats, G.O.P. Eye 1960
Elections: Democrats, G.O.P. Eye 1960 In the wake of sweeping Democratic victories throughout the nation, the greatest since the 1930s, both parties reappraise the presidential timber for 1960. In California, one of the nation's most powerful Republicans, Senator William Knowland, is returned to private life. In New York, the sole G.O.P. triumph is also the most spectacular personal triumph of the day- the victory of newcomer Nelson Rockefeller over incumbent governor Averill Harriman, by over a half million votes. Crowds waving. Politicians in various settings. Pat Brown (?). John F. Kennedy stands among crowd, talks to reporters, press. Also, JFK with Jackie Kennedy and Edward Kennedy (?) amid a crowd, smiling. Police officers among crowds. Man blows kisses and waves to crowd.
Richard Nixon Speaks to Reporters in New Hampshire
Off-screen CBS reporter Mike Wallace asks Richard M. Nixon about the rise of California Governor Ronald Reagan. Nixon says, "I think I can sum it up this way. Ten months ago Governor Reagan was known throughout the country as an actor. Today, Governor Reagan is known throughout the country as a governor. And he combines that change in his public image with a very exciting television presence. Now, when you put those two combinations together-- and I'm the expert on what television can do to a candidate, as you know (referring to his 1960 presidential campaign against JFK)-- when you put those two combinations together, you have a potential presidential candidate, particularly when the Governor comes from the most populous state in the Union."
Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered - Show # 102C1 - Round Table Discussion
Tucker makes reference to Lee Harvey Oswald meeting w/the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City having no significance in the assassination of JFK, so throwing out Bush's family connections to Osama Bin Laden, the association doesn't really mean anything. Hilary Rosen responds by saying that the Bin Laden family has been off the hook and Bush has not been pressing them about the black sheep. Tucker states that Bush has made mistakes, why not hate him for that instead of making a conspiracy out of it? Richard Cohen hasn't seen the movie but believes its insane to blame Halliburton ect. for the war, the reasons are on record: An attempt by neo-cons in the administration to reorganize the middle east & set up a democracy.
Capitol Journal - Trade Protection
Segment turns to Nashville, long shot of Nashville looking at city from down a river, shots of the city streets, Tennessee Governor LAMAR ALEXANDER from JFK airport in New York says his state needs to help shoe factory workers to find other sorts of jobs, shots of factory workers welding car frames at a Nissan plant in Tennessee, Governor Alexander says the real problem is the federal deficit, more shots of the Nissan plant's automobile assembly line where workers weld and use other tools to further assemble cars, Nissan Plant worker MELVIN NORWOOD compares American workers to those of other countries and talks about economics, Nissan USA president MARVIN RUNION talks about the correlation between wages and productivity, shots of workers painting cars on the assembly line
Politics 1960. Presidential Fever Sweeps The Nation
Presidential Fever Sweeps the Nation. Wisconsin. Sign, "Kennedy for President Headquarters." Billboard calls Hubert Humphrey "A Midwest Progressive for President." Posters for JFK. Exterior, Humphrey for President Headquarters. MS - People at their polling place, voting. People come to polls, apparently to vote in the Democratic primary. MCUS - Official Ballot. Election judges. MS - Man steps behind a curtain to vote. Washington, DC The Republicans. CUS - President Eisenhower eating a boxed lunch at the Republican Woman's Convention. People in big hall, nicely dressed, chow down on boxed meals; President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his wife Mamie are among them, eating. Vice President Richard Nixon takes a bite out of chicken. MCUS - Vice President Nixon and President Eisenhower. Ike and Nixon wave to crowd from stage.
B Roll of "The Last Two Days"
Outtakes from "The Last Two Days," a film documenting the last two days in the life of President John F. Kennedy, shot by White House personnel: U.S. Vice-President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, Texas Governor John Connally, Nellie Connally, U.S. House Representative Jim Wright (D-TX), other adult Caucasian men and women stand and clap at banquet sponsored by Ft. Worth Chamber of Commerce. President Kennedy standing, smiling at podium, Vice President Johnson watching in BG. Fort Worth Mayor John Justin Jr. standing at podium, shield eyes from lights as he tries to look in the distance; JFK in BG. Vice President Johnson and Governor Connally standing, applauding. Vice President Johnson, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (wearing infamous pink dress & pillbox hat), President Kennedy taking their seats. Jackie Kennedy; man leans over her shoulder to briefly speak to her. Two newsreel cameras on tripods. Crowd applauding; long table between them. Newsreel cameras lining wall of banquet hall. President Kennedy speaking to crowd. Gov. Connally, Jackie Kennedy, John Kennedy riding in open convertible, waving to crowds. Rear view traveling shot of Presidential motorcade traveling toward Ft. Worth courthouse; crowds line either side of street. Traveling shot of motorcade passing crowds lining street.
President Kennedy's Speech At Rice University
MCU U.S. President JOHN F. KENNEDY (JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, John Kennedy) continues, "Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this Nation's own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than three times that of our population as a whole, despite that, the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished still far outstrip our collective comprehension. No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you will, the 50,000 years of man's recorded history in a time span of but a half-century. Stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them advanced man had learned to use the skins of animals to cover them. Then about 10 years ago, under this standard, man emerged from his caves to construct other kinds of shelter. Only 5 years ago man learned to write and use a cart with wheels. Christianity began less than 2 years ago. The printing press came this year, and then less than 2 months ago, during this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power."
President Kennedy's Speech At Rice University
MCU U.S. President JOHN F. KENNEDY (JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, John Kennedy) continues, "If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space. Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolutions, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it--we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding. Yet the vows of this Nation can only be fulfilled if we in this Nation are first, and, therefore, we intend to be first."
President Kennedy's Speech At Rice University
MCU U.S. President JOHN F. KENNEDY (JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, John Kennedy) continues, "And finally, the space effort itself, while still in its infancy, has already created a great number of new companies, and tens of thousands of new jobs. Space and related industries are generating new demands in investment and skilled personnel, and this city and this State, and this region, will share greatly in this growth. What was once the furthest outpost on the old frontier of the West will be the furthest outpost on the new frontier of science and space. Houston, your City of Houston, with its Manned Spacecraft Center, will become the heart of a large scientific and engineering community. During the next 5 years the National Aeronautics and Space Administration expects to double the number of scientists and engineers in this area, to increase its outlays for salaries and expenses to $60 million a year; to invest some $200 million in plant and laboratory facilities; and to direct or contract for new space efforts over $1 billion from this Center in this City. To be sure, all this costs us all a good deal of money. This year's space budget is three times what it was in January 1961, and it is greater than the space budget of the previous 8 years combined. That budget now stands at $5,400 million a year--a staggering sum, though somewhat less than we pay for cigarettes and cigars every year."
President Kennedy's Speech At Rice University
MCU U.S. President JOHN F. KENNEDY (JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, John Kennedy) continues, "Space expenditures will soon rise some more, from 40 cents per person per week to more than 50 cents a week for every man, woman, and child in the United States, for we have given this program a high national priority-even though I realize that this is in some measure an act of faith and vision, for we do not now know what benefits await us. But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tail, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, reentering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun-almost as hot as it is here today--and do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out, then we must be bold."
Kennedy Homecoming.
The quiet Cape Cod town of Hyannisport, Mass., stages a monumental homecoming celebration for Democratic presidential nominee, Senator John F. Kennedy. 100,000 cheer his return. Mrs. Kennedy is at the airport to greet him. Crowds of people wave and shake hands with John (accompanied by Jackie) at airport. Police hold crowds back while candidate JFK waves, rides off in open convertible. A very crowded airport with Senator Kennedy shaking hands with the people. His wife Jackie is by his side. Mrs. Kennedy who is expecting a baby in November stayed back on doctor's orders. MS - Jack Kennedy getting into his car and as he steps up he is waving to the people. His wife Jackie is already seated in the back seat of the car waiting for Jack. MS - As the car is pulling out of the small air port people are following.
Kennedy Meets Helen Keller
Kennedy Meets Helen Keller Side view of White House from behind trees. Quick but good newsreel of an 80-year-old Helen Keller meeting w/ JFK in Oval Office, April 8th, 1961, while she was in Washington to receive the annual humanitarian award of the District of Columbia Lions Club. MS's & CU's of Keller and her secretary, Mrs. Evelyn Seide, talking in sign language (using the "manual alphabet", a sign language in which each letter is signed onto the hand of the deaf-blind person so that he or she can feel it). Kennedy speaks and watches as aide translates into signs; then he takes Miss Keller's hand (don't think he's doing any signing, just holding her hand as a friendly gesture). VO says Keller, deaf and blind since birth, has become a symbol of hope and achievement to the handicapped everywhere.
The Kennedy Center
Exterior of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Performing Arts; views from the River Terrace with water fountains and planted trees in-between. Adult Caucasian female and Caucasian female child walking together towards building at the far end of the terrace; camera zooms out to two adult Caucasian females walking toward building together in the FG; traffic on Interstate 66 in BG. VS of JFK quote inscribed on wall: "I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well."