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President Kennedy's Speech At Rice University
MCU U.S. President JOHN F. KENNEDY (JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, John Kennedy) continues, "Within these last 19 months at least 45 satellites have circled the earth. Some 40 of them were "made in the United States of America" and they were far more sophisticated and supplied far more knowledge to the people of the world than those of the Soviet Union. The Mariner spacecraft now on its way to Venus is the most intricate instrument in the history of space science. The accuracy of that shot is comparable to firing a missile from Cape Canaveral and dropping it in this stadium between the 40-yard lines. Transit satellites are helping our ships at sea to steer a safer course. Tiros satellites have given us unprecedented warnings of hurricanes and storms, and will do the same for forest fires and icebergs. We have had our failures, but so have others, even if they do not admit them. And they may be less public. To be sure, we are behind, and will be behind for some time in manned flight. But we do not intend to stay behind, and in this decade we shall make up and move ahead. The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for industry, medicine, the home as well as the school. Technical institutions, such as Rice, will reap the harvest of these gains."
President Kennedy's Speech At Rice University
MCU U.S. President JOHN F. KENNEDY (JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, John Kennedy) continues, "I'm the one who is doing all the work, so we just want you to stay cool for a minute. [Laughter] However, I think we're going to do it, and I think that we must pay what needs to be paid. I don't think we ought to waste any money, but I think we ought to do the job. And this will be done in the decade of the sixties. It may be done while some of you are still here at school at this college and university. It will be done during the terms of office of some of the people who sit here on this platform. But it will be done. And it will be done before the end of this decade. I am delighted that this university is playing a part in putting a man on the moon as part of a great national effort of the United States of America. Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it is there." Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked. Thank you." MS Kennedy returns to seat and sits down.
Robert Kennedy In Berlin
"Just a year to the day after President Kennedy's visit to Berlin his brother, the Attorney General, helps dedicate a plaque to his memory in John F. Kennedy Platz." Panning high angle LS large crowd packed in public space. MS street sign: "John F. Kennedy Platz." MS Attorney General ROBERT F. KENNEDY walking through crowd. MS crowd waving. MS Robert Kennedy and wife ETHEL KENNEDY standing on platform. MS Ethel Kennedy and two unidentified Kennedy children (might be Robert F. Kennedy Jr. & Mary Courtney Kennedy) on platform. MS crowd waving. MS West Berlin Mayor WILLY BRANDT on dais with Robert F. Kennedy. MS unveiling of plaque. CU relief of JFK in profile. Panning LS crowd waving. Side view MSs Robert Kennedy speaking to audience. CU RFK. MCU Robert Kennedy walking through crowd. TLS American flag being held aloft crowd of German seamen. TLS/MSs RFK walking through crowd, waving.
London Meetings End Kennedy's European Trip
London Meetings End Kennedy's European Trip Premier Khrushchev and President Kennedy conclude their series of talks in Vienna before the President flies on to London for the climax of his European tour. The President and Mr. Khrushchev solve few problems, but they do get U.S.-Russian relations on a high diplomatic plane once more. In London where Mr. Kennedy will brief Prime Minister Macmillan on his talks with Khrushchev and President Kennedy." MS's Nikita Khrushchev arriving in London via train; MS's suits & children greeting him. Little girls hold bouquets of flowers. LS John F. Kennedy arriving via Air Force One. MS's JFK & Khrushchev meeting, shaking hands; press snaps shots. Posters say "give em hell jack". Presidential seal. MS's & LS's John and Jackie Kennedy arriving in London, where they are greeted by Prime Minister Macmillan. MS Macmillan giving a speech welcoming the President. Little girls with bouquets. Man using movie camera?
President Kennedy's Speech At Rice University
MCU U.S. President JOHN F. KENNEDY (JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, John Kennedy) continues, "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." TLS crowd applauding. MCU Kennedy speaking, "It is for these reasons that I regard the decision last year to shift our efforts in space from low to high gear as among the most important decisions that will be made during my incumbency in the Office of the Presidency. In the last 24 hours we have seen facilities now being created for the greatest and most complex exploration in man's history. We have felt the ground shake and the air shattered by the testing of a Saturn C-1 booster rocket, many times as powerful as the Atlas which launched John Glenn, generating power equivalent to 10,000 automobiles with their accelerators on the floor. We have seen the site where five F-1 rocket engines, each one as powerful as all eight engines of the Saturn combined, will be clustered together to make the advanced Saturn missile, assembled in a new building to be built at Cape Canaveral as tall as a 48-story structure, as wide as a city block, and as long as two lengths of this field."
Politics, USA: Canadidates Take The Spotlight
In Washington, Vice-President Richard Nixon confers with his running mate, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. Still resting from his hectic week at the G.O.P. Convention, Mr. Nixon is about to take off on his first campaign swing through the far west and Hawaii. At his Hyannisport, Mass., vacation headquarters, Senator John F. Kennedy meets with his running mate Senator Lyndon Johnson to discuss strategy plans for the campaign and the fall session of Congress, and hold a joint press conference. Massachuetts Newsmen standing ou-side John F Kennedy's Hyannisport, Massachusetts vacation headquarters. John Kennedy and Adli Stevenson standing together at the top of the stairs. CUS - Lyndon B Johnson and John Kennedy. MS - Lyndon B Johnson and John Kennedy smoozing with the press. Photographers snap away at JFK and LBJ in photo op. Washington, DC Vice President Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge with two other men, laugh. MCUS - Press taking pictures. MCUS - Vice Presient Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge.
Warren Commission Bullet Impact Tests
Warren Commission Bullet Impact Tests Title at beginning: "233 JFK F117, F304, F305, F309".A series of slow-motion films of things being shot, produced apparently in conjunction with the Warren Commission on the Kennedy Assassination. Starts with what looks like a large gold block of gelatin suspended in water, two different takes of this being shot and reverberating around. At 52:45:03, box or container filled with red paint shot, explodes, paint everywhere. At 53:02:26, human skulls being shot, ghoulish and ghastly. Three different takes. At 54:03:01, a white goat, held into a metal frame with C-clamps and other restraints, is shot in the skull and killed instantly, though illogically, as this experiment proves absolutely nothing more than that bullets can kill with horrendous force; (this is shot at normal speed.) At 54:24:29, same sort of thing in slow-motion, another one at 55:00:14. Gore, Death, Murder.
LAWMAKERS - LM 057 - "Tax Policy"
Jack Albertine getting out of a cab, entering the Capitol building, walking down hallway. Jack Albertine meeting with Rep. Barber Conable (R-NY). Shot of front of the House chamber, Rep. Conable taking to rostrum. Rep. Conable in debate, says medicine always tastes bad, and Congress has to raise taxes. Paul Duke (VO) says Conservative Republicans were reluctant to raise taxes. Rep. John Rousselot (R-CA) in debate, says that President Reagan promised not to raise taxes, says that tax increases wouldn't help much with the deficit. Rep. Mickey Edwards (R-OK) in debate, says he likes Reagan, but he doesn't want to raise taxes. Rep. John Rhodes (R-AZ) in support of the bill, says it's best strength is that "no one is really happy with it." but is good for the country. Rep. Delbert Latta (R-OH) cites JFK'S "what can you do for your country" speech, asks colleagues to let politics aside and do what's right.
Air Tragedy: Trans-Ocean Liner Crash Fatal to 26
Air Tragedy: Trans-Ocean Liner Crash Fatal to 26. At Idlewild Airport(JFK Airport), an Alitalia (Italian Airline Company) Douglas DC-6 airplane crashed into the water and exploded. Twenty-six people were killed. Shots of the burning wreckage in the water. Pan over to people watching from a pier. Police and firemen load a dead body into ambulance/hearse. Searchers look at the devastation. Pan from wreckage at the shore(a seat?) to searchers looking through other wreckage. A man uses a hooked pole to drag a piece of wreckage ashore. People throw found luggage into a pile. Two shots of various luggage. A diver enters the water to search underwater. A group of people watch from a pier as a piece of the plane is raised from the water. Men help maneuver the big piece of plane wreckage. People examine the wreckage. Searchers recover another body and it is passed from the boat to the shore. Shot of crane and people at the wreckage.
President Kennedy's Final Hour
LS Dallas skyline. MS back of people's heads as they wait. Low angle MS man on lift behind television camera (cameraman). GV television cameraman on top of van, pan to see people gathered at airport, waiting for the President's arrival. Low angle MSs Air Force One on its descent. GV pan from cameraman on top of van. LS tracking pan of the President's airplane coming in for landing. LS/GV Air Force One taxiing on the runway. LSs Kennedy entourage exiting airplane. LSs of frantic press around the motorcade cars. MCU JFK and LBJ moving through crowd. GV Presidential car. MSs Jackie Kennedy moving through crowd wearing her infamous pink pillbox hat. GV pan of the Presidential limousine (1961 Lincoln Continental) with top down and the First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and the President John F. Kennedy riding in the back. TLS motorcade leaving airport, reporters and spectators in FG hurry to their own vehicles.
President Kennedy's Speech At Rice University
MCU U.S. President JOHN F. KENNEDY (JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, John Kennedy) continues, "In short, our leadership in science and in industry, our hopes for peace and security, our obligations to ourselves as well as others, all require us to make this effort, to solve these mysteries, to solve them for the good of all men, and to become the world's leading space-faring nation. We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say that we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours. There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain. Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?"
CONGRESS: WE THE PEOPLE
08.34.26-Newman-hundreds of votes take place in each session, and lawmakers need quick information on many minor votes. Rep. BARBER CONABLE (R-NY) talks about getting information from trusted lobbyists and staff on votes he doesn't know well himself. Shots of Rep. CONABLE rushing to vote, riding in the underground tramway to the Capitol. 08.36.18-Newman-discussion of patterns of voting, dependent on party lines, the President, and interests involved, notably in the longstanding coalition of Conservative Republicans and Conservative Southern Democrats. Still of FDR speaking to press microphones, audio of an FDR radio address discussing the New Deal. Stills of FDR and of the Congressional chamber. V.O.-Southern Democrats rebelled against the New Deal after FDR's first term. Rep. JIM WRIGHT recalling the hard struggles faced by speaker Sam Rayburn to keep all the Democrats in line. Shot of 1960 JFK inauguration. Rep. RICHARD BOLLING (D-MO) discussing the problems faced by President Kennedy in getting his domestic agenda approved. Cartoon illustrating the Southern desertions from the Democrats under Kennedy. Still of JFK with Civil Rights leaders including Martin Luther King. 08.38.32-Shot of LBJ at inaugural announcing the Great Society and the Civil Rights initiatives. Stills of LBJ. Still of RICHARD NIXON. V.O.-NIXON resurrected the southern conservative coalition on issues like LAW AND ORDER and the Vietnam War. Shot of Jimmy Carter. Rep. TOM FOLEY says that there were never any formal Conservative Democratic Caucuses under Carter, but there was a solid bloc under Reagan. Still of Conservative Democrats in meeting with Reagan, all having a good laugh about screwing over the bleeding heart liberals. Shot of PHIL GRAMM, says the Conservative Democrats are founded on economic issues, says that this is different than previous conservative Democrat movements that were based on Southern regionalism and racism [Gramm calls racism "the race issue" to suggest that there are two equally valid sides to it]. Shots of meetings of the Conservative Democratic Forum. V.O.-this bloc was recognized as the key voting bloc in Congress during Reagan's first term. Rep. SAM HALL Jr. says that the group speaks for the majority of the people. 08.41.30
Speeches of Robert F. Kennedy - Assassination & Funeral
Excerpt from Robert Kennedy's "Day of Affirmation" Speech, 1966. Audio of speech over the following images. Color traveling shots from the train carrying RFK s body of crowds lying the route. Color shots of RFK s funeral - coffin being put into hearse. Edward Kennedy (Ted Kennedy, Teddy Kennedy) at the eternal flame by JFK s grave looking pensive. Robert Kennedy riding in a car while campaigning. VS the Beatles and Beatles fans. Shot of Kennedy as a boy (about 13) speaking into a microphone. JFK and RFK leaving a helicopter and being greeted by their children. Color CU of RFK shaking hands. RFK at the eternal flame by JFK s grave. CU eternal flame. "I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world. For the fortunate amongst us, the fourth danger my friends is comfort; the temptation to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and financial success so grandly spread before those who have the privilege of an education. But that is not the road history has marked out for us. There is a Chinese curse which says, "May he live in interesting times." Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most creative of any time in the history of mankind. And everyone here will ultimately be judged, will ultimately judge himself, on the effort he has contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which his ideals and goals have shaped that effort. So we part, I to my country and you to remain. We are, if a man of forty can claim that privilege, fellow members of the world's largest younger generation. Each of us have our own work to do. I know at times you must feel very alone with your problems and difficulties. But I want to say how impressed I am with what you stand for and the effort you are making; and I say this not just for myself, but for men and women all over the world. And I hope you will often take heart from the knowledge that you are joined with fellow young people in every land, they struggling with their problems and you with yours, but all joined in a common purpose; that, like the young people of my own country and of every country that I have visited, you are all in many ways more closely united to the brothers of your time than to the older generations of any of these nations; you're determined to build a better future. President Kennedy was speaking to the young people of America, but beyond them to young people everywhere, when he said "the energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it and the glow from that fire can truly light the world." And he added, "With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own. I thank you."
Major League Baseball All-Star Game
Major League Baseball All-Star Game Pan of stadium. Woman wearing straw sun hat with ribbon that reads 1962 All-Star Game. Pan Washington's $24,000,000 stadium is jammed to capacity and among the crowd of 46,000 is President Kennedy who throws out the first pitch. Side view of woman wearing straw hat with 1962 All Star Game written on scarf. President Kennedy shown throwing out first pitch, from his seat. GV of baseball diamond with players. They all see the national league all-stars take the measure of the American league. Stan (the man!) Musical pinch-hits a single that means the first run, Maury Wills runs wild on the bases (steals 2nd base) and Willie Mays makes some spectacular catches: it all adds up to a National League 3-1 win! Several CUs of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) enjoying the game, seen wearing sunglasses, smiling, clapping and eating peanuts? Good shot of baseball player running and sliding into home plate. Good shot of crowd /audience which includes African-American (black) and white spectators. Umpire calls safe.
Focus on the 60s (1960-64)
U.S. sailors in peacoats standing on windy deck of carrier; Marine One helicopter landing on deck; sailor blowing whistle; President John F. Kennedy wearing suit, sunglasses, walking on deck, passing sailors & marines; audio excerpt of President Eisenhower speech warning of the rise of the military-industrial complex; pan of F-100 Super Sabre taking off from naval carrier. Pan of black car flying diplomatic U.S. flag from front quarter panel; President Kennedy wearing sunglasses, arriving at rocket test site, rocket scientist Werner Von Braun in tow; nice CU JFK & Werner von Braun looking up rocket. Cuban Missile Crisis: two USAF airmen loading film into camera of spy plane; air to air shots of B-47 Stratojet bomber in flight; airman manning camera; still of Cuban missile site (buildup); President Kennedy delivering national address: "I call upon Chairman Khrushchev to halt & eliminate this clandestine, reckless & provocative threat to world peace & to stabilize relations. I call upon him to abandon this course of world domination." U.S. naval vessels creating blockade around Cuba; aerials of Soviet cargo ships hauling missiles from Cuba.
GREAT UPSET OF '48
11019 WETA "GREAT UPSET OF '48" IN 11.00.33 ROUGH interview footage from WETA program. A former campaign Press Secretary for HENRY WALLACE recalls coming to be involved with Wallace's Presidential campaign in 1947, ironic that his replacement at his newspaper job was Pierre Salinger who would be JFK's press secretary with more success. He discusses the campaign, a great experience with a good man [Wallace], even though he didn't expect to win and taking the position cost him his newspaper job. 11.07.10-Discusses HENRY WALLACE in praiseful terms for kindness and decency and intelligence. Says Wallace was uncomfortable connecting with the public and had problems in some of his appearances. Recalls WALLACE'S problems campaigning in the South, where Wallace's opposition to Segregation hurt him badly, including one speech in North Carolina where Wallace was pelted with rotten eggs, his fear for Wallace's life at some points during Southern campaign trip. Recounts the campaign car being assailed by a mob at one point. 11.18.42-former HENRY WALLACE campaign Press Secretary recounts scary moments during Wallace's campaign tour of the South. 11.19.45-OUT
Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans
See catalog #444683 for footage in its entirety. Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans MSs Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans handing out leaflets.
Oswald TV Interview
Lee Harvey Oswald being interviewed at WDSU-TV studio in New Orleans, Aug 21, 1963 Interview of LEE HARVEY OSWALD (bad audio, but can be fixed in mastering) in the WDSU-TV studio in New Orleans, Aug 21, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald says he is not a communist, that he has studied Marxism and sympathizes with the philosophy, eventually admitting that he is a Marxist. LHO explains the difference between Marxism and Communism. LHO begins to discuss the work of the Fair Play for Cuba organization before the film cuts out. This is oft referred to as the Mike Lala Film.
Kennedy Grave: Arlington National Cemetery
Kennedy Grave: Arlington National Cemetery
Kennedy Grave: Arlington National Cemetery
MS eternal flame at the gravesite of John F. Kennedy, colorful floral wreaths hung on the fencing behind, zoom to MCU flame. MCU eternal flame with uniform hats of every branch of the armed forces resting on the ground around the ring, symbolic sign of military paying respects to fallen Commander in Chief, zoom to CU flame.
Kennedy Grave: Arlington National Cemetery
LSs streams of people waiting in line to view the grave site of John F. Kennedy. MCU eternal flame with uniform hats of every branch of the armed forces resting on the ground around the ring.
Dick Gregory
MS comedian and activist DICK GREGORY speaking at press conference. MS reporters, cameramen, photographers trained on Mr. Gregory. Shaky CU Dick Gregory talking. Sideview MS cameraman shooting with CP-16 camera. MCU Dick Gregory talking about the involvement of Lee Harvey Oswald in the JFK assassination, saying that Oswald could not have acted alone, suggesting a greater conspiracy. ..if Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. And if the day that the President announced that he was coming to Dallas, within a 48 hour period Lee Oswald got a job in the book depository. And if the route was not changed until a few hours before the parade, then evidently Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. I mean it s different if you are lying out there in the bushes at the airport going to ambush someone. But to know the exact route, before the route is changed and not have the authority to change the route. That alone, from a stand point of logic We can see time and time again that there was not a thorough investigation or either the type of investigation you would use to cover up something. I don t believe the Dallas police department is that stupid myself.
LAWMAKERS
03.30.23-DUKE/WERTHEIMER/ROBERTS in studio-discussion of "road show" type stunts, WERTHEIMER says REPUBLICANS have a "road show" that DEMOCRATS can't possibly top, it's name is RONALD REAGAN. DUKE intro report on SENATE decision whether to expel Sen. HARRISON WILLIAMS for a BRIBERY SCANDAL. 03.31.16-Shot of WILLIAMS, says that he feels he's accomplished his goals for SENATE career. Still of WILLIAMS with JFK, Still of WILLIAMS with LBJ. Still of WILLIAMS with TIP O'NEILL. DUKE v.o.-summary of WILLIAMS' legislative achievements. Clip from grainy b/w closed-circuit camera, showing WILLIAMS allegedly accepting bribe from a plant dressed as an "arab sheik". Shot of WILLIAMS, asserting he's innocent of impropriety, only wanted to help friends, got set up by FBI. Says he's too trusting. Says his colleagues have been supportive. DUKE interviews WILLIAMS about the scandal. Discussion of the problems of SUSPICION on public officials, WILLIAMS asserting he has been honest and well-intentioned, says he doesn't condemn himself. 03.36.06-DUKE in studio. Intro commentary. 03.36.30-Commentary by Otis PIKE on subject of political games in Congress. Hard to tell who's winning and losing. Discusses absurdities of the BUDGET DEBATE. 03.38.06-DUKE-signs off closing Credits/transcript order info/WETA credit/sponsor credits/PBS ID 03.39.51-OUT.
President Kennedy's Final Hour
Elevated tracking shots of the motorcade on the move, police motorcycles in the lead, next seen is the presidential limousine with top down and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy waving from the back seat. Stationary elevated LS motorcade on the move. Street level MSs as the presidential motorcade moves toward and past the camera. GV spectators standing along the route. Various MSs of the motorcade passing: police motorcycles, Presidential limo w/ John & Jackie waving, Vice Presidential limo w/ Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson plus more. MS people long route holding banner reading "Please stop & shake our hands JFK & LBJ", pan to street. MS motorcade moving slowly along route, lead by police on motorcycles, followed by police & secret service in white Ford. Excellent MCU Presidential limo moving past camera, good view of John and Jackie Kennedy smiling & waving from the back seat, Jackie dressed in the immortalized pink suit and pill box hat. TLS motorcade moving toward camera, pan & MCU of President Kennedy waving & pushing hair from his face. MS car full of press men traveling along side of motorcade filming the event. LS/MSs motorcade on the move showing the Presidential & Vice Presidential limos.