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Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald - Footage of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, good angle to see Ruby jumping out from crowd.
Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
Kinescope footage of Dallas city jail basement garage just before the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Extremely long continuous take showing Dallas police officers & detectives preparing the van that will transport Oswald to county jail.
Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
Kinescope footage of Dallas city jail basement garage just before the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Pan right to see television cameraman pushing large bulky video camera on tripod through crowd of reporters and police as they wait for the Oswald to emerge. Long continuous take showing men standing in line forming a corridor in the basement garage as they wait for LHO to pass through, an unidenified car passes by.
Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
Kinescope footage of the Dallas city jail basement garage just before the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. Shot begins with a long continuous take of reporters & police detectives forming corridor, waiting for the suspect to emerge, getting in positions for Oswald to appear, a car is heard honking off-screen, slight pan LT as officer JIM LEAVELLE enters frame handcuffed to LEE HARVEY OSWALD, the car honks again from off screen and then a third time as it pulls into view just as JACK RUBY plainly jumps out of crowd in front of camera and shoots Oswald, slight pan RT as officers tussle with Ruby, video keeps rolling to show confusion and aftermath, photographers snapping pictures, detectives & uniformed police officers regain order of the scene. Slightly angled GV main entrance into the police headquarters builing with reporters and photographers present. Back to the Dallas city jail basement garage with uniformed police and plain clothed dectives setting up crowd control barrier.
NPACT coverage of Church Committee Hearings - Assassinations
Program moderator Paul Duke in television studio, summarizing why Cuban leader Fidel Castro was an American enemy. Picture of Castro on screen behind Duke. U.S. officials feared the establishment of a Soviet outpost in Cuba. Scrolling text from Senate report detailing CIA attempts to assassinate Castro from 1960-1965, one attempt occurring on the day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Descriptions of plots to assassinate Castro, including poisoning and providing weapons to underworld organizations in Cuba; mention of Operation Mongoose. One assassination plot was scheduled to take place while a U.S. diplomat was meeting with Castro. The report also says that there was inconclusive evidence to directly link any U.S. President to authorizing any assassination attempt.
Dealey Plaza Revisited
Dealey Plaza Revisited - Establishing shots of Dealey Plaza along with reenactments of the Kennedy assassination as conducted by the Secret Service and the Warren Commission. Really nice footage.
Dealey Plaza Revisited
Panning 360 degree LS of Dealey Plaza showing courthouse, Dal-Tex building, Texas School Book Depository, pergola, grassy knoll, overpass, etc; shot shortly after the Kennedy assassination, wreaths & mourners on hill; traffic passing in FG. TLS traffic entering Dealey Plaza, passing under overpass.
Dealey Plaza Revisited
Excellent subjective POV shot reenacting Kennedy motorcade route, making right turn into Dealey Plaza, passing Texas School Book Depository, crowds lining street and moving under the turnpike overpass. Second POV take focuses on 6th floor of Texas School Book Depository as car turns corner, holding shot of TSBD, car coming to stop, camera zooms in to open sixth floor window.
Dealey Plaza Revisited
Panning TLSs interior of 6th floor of Texas School Book Depository, boxes of books piled high in some shots. MS white man in business suit assuming Lee Harvey Oswald's alleged position in "sniper's nest" by window. MSs windows of sixth floor of TSBD (interior view). Panning shot view of Dealey Plaza from windows of sixth floor. MSs sniper's nest by window (no man, just boxes). MSs man kneeling at sniper's nest, pointing out window. LS view from sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, cars & trucks driving in and out of Dealey Plaza, nice perspective shot.
Dealey Plaza Revisited
Reenactment of the Kennedy assassination with magnified sniper scope (riflescope, telescopic sight) in center screen, actor portraying Kennedy wavering in and out of crosshairs. Very interesting visual that illustrates the difficulty of making the kill shots that Oswald supposedly pulled off. Since the scene is obscured by the sniper scope, the actors look nothing like the Kennedys & the car is not a limo and a different color than the death car, this could very easily serve as generic political assassination material. Similar shots repeated several times.
Dealey Plaza Revisited
Interior panning TLS sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, boxes stacked high. Reenactment of Lee Harvey Oswald hiding rifle, leaving 6th floor and arriving at second floor lunchroom, the actor portraying LHO walking lamely, slowly, methodically.
Dealey Plaza Revisited
Exterior panning LSs of Dealey Plaza from Abraham Zapruder's vantage point during the assassination, traffic traveling along street (nice mix of late 50s & early 60s cars, pickup trucks and buses).
NPACT coverage of Church Committee Hearings - Assassinations
U.S. Senator Walter Mondale (D-MN) says, "There is evidence that during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when our government finally realized what was at stake, that we tried to call off operatives in Cuba that may have been trying to get Castro killed, but we had no assurances that we in fact we had reached them or called them off. So, that you set in motion things which may be horrible in concept but may be unbelievable when it finally played out to its final conclusion." Adult Caucasian female reporter says, "Now that these various plots against Castro have been officially revealed, what do you think this will do to our efforts to normalize relations with Cuba?" Sen. Frank Church (D-ID) says, "Castro was the first to know of these attempts long before the American people. The committee found a certain irony in the fact that a poison pen device was being passed for the purpose of assassinating Castro on the very day that President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas."
Kennedys in France
Kennedys in France Paris, France Black sedans arriving at building. Two stationed guards saluting. Parisians waving in courtyard. John F Kennedy and Rose Kennedy on balcony, smiling. They pose for camera with local dignitaries.
John F Kennedy
John F Kennedy President John F Kennedy sitting in his famed rocking chair, meeting with South Vietnam dignitary, perhaps Ambassador to the US, in the Oval Office.
President Kennedy Civil Rights Speech
Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights. Delivered from the President's office at 8 p.m. President John F. Kennedy speaks to the Nation after dispatching National Guard to University of Alabama following Governor George Wallace's refusal to admit two black students in June 11, 1963. Washington, DC
President Kennedy Civil Rights Speech
MSs U.S. President JOHN F. KENNEDY sitting at desk, making notes while preparing to speak to nation. President Kennedy delivers national televised address. "Good evening, my fellow citizens: This afternoon, following a series of threats and defiant statements, the presence of Alabama National Guardsmen was required on the University of Alabama to carry out the final and unequivocal order of the United States District Court of the Northern District of Alabama. That order called for the admission of two clearly qualified young Alabama residents who happened to have been born Negro. That they were admitted peacefully on the campus is due in good measure to the conduct of the students of the University of Alabama, who met their responsibilities in a constructive way. I hope that every American, regardless of where he lives, will stop and examine his conscience about this and other related incidents. This Nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. Today we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote and protect the rights of all who wish to be free. And when Americans are sent to Viet-Nam or West Berlin, we do not ask for whites only. It ought to be possible, therefore, for American students of any color to attend any public institution they select without having to be backed up by troops. It ought to be possible for American consumers of any color to receive equal service in places of public accommodation, such as hotels and restaurants and theaters and retail stores, without being forced to resort to demonstrations in the street, and it ought to be possible for American citizens of any color to register and to vote in a free election without interference or fear of reprisal. It ought to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his color. In short, every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. But this is not the case. The Negro baby born in America today, regardless of the section of the Nation in which he is born, has about one-half as much chance of completing a high school as a white baby born in the same place on the same day, one-third as much chance of completing college, one-third as much chance of becoming a professional man, twice as much chance of becoming unemployed, about one-seventh as much chance of earning $10,000 a year, a life expectancy which is 7 years shorter, and the prospects of earning only half as much. This is not a sectional issue. Difficulties over segregation and discrimination exist in every city, in every State of the Union, producing in many cities a rising tide of discontent that threatens the public safety. Nor is this a partisan issue. In a time of domestic crisis men of good will and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics. This is not even a legal or legislative issue alone. It is better to settle these matters in the courts than on the streets, and new laws are needed at every level, but law alone cannot make men see right. We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as the scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution."
Conventions: Battling Dems Jin In Attack On GOP Record
Highlights of the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles as the contenders for the nomination go down to the wire. Senator Frank Church's keynote address sounds the common battle cry, when the inter-party skirmishing is over and the real target, the G.O.P., is in sight. All the people at the convention on the out side of the building holding up banners and signs for the constitutes they want voted in. MCUS - Senator Symington. Symington waves his hat to supporters. Another rally, people with (Lyndon B.) Johnson signs. Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Johnson. Another group with signs for Adlai Stevenson. MCUS - Adlai Stevenson. CUS - A young gal is holding up a printed sign," Vote For Stevenson, He's A Lousy Golfer." CUS - Stevenson with a lei on his neck, waving. A Congo line for Kennedy -- a group of pretty young women dressed in identical outfits bounce along, carrying and wearing signs to vote for JFK. Candidate John F. Kennedy makes his way through thick crowds. MS - Outside of Los Angeles Memorial Stadium. MS - Senator Frank Church a young Senator from Idaho. Senator Frank Church speaks, "We see the world in upheaval polarized by two gigantic adversaries the United States and the Soviet Union. At stake is the shape of the future. If the Soviet Union is Communism on exhibit, even more is the United States the showcase of Democracy. How urgent it is for us to show all the watching world that Democracy has the will to serve vital public needs. How ironic that our National Administration should has fallen into the hands of the "Hold Back Party" during times that beseech us, push ahead. Nominate a man who will summon this priceless heritage to work. Give us a leader with a program who, who's dimensions will match those of this atomic age. And the Democratic Party true to its tradition will lift this country once again, upon the high road of destiny."
Speeches of Robert F. Kennedy - Death of Martin Luther King
BW scenes of civil rights marches, including the one on Selma. Washington DC, smoke from the rioting that occurred after King's death. Riot damaged streets. "Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice for his fellow human beings, and he died because of that effort. In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it is perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. For those of you who are black, considering the evidence there evidently is that there were white people who were responsible, you can be filled with bitterness, with hatred, and a desire for revenge." Color footage of police arresting young African American men. Color footage of burning buildings during riots. BW Martin Luther King delivering the "I Have a Dream" Speech in Washington (no audio). Caucasian police officers assaulting black men with pepper spray and billy clubs. " We can move in that direction as a country, in great polarization, black people amongst black, white people amongst white, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and to replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand with compassion and love." RFK Delivering speech. "For those of you who are black and are tempted to be filled with hatred and distrust at the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I can only say that I feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed," People crying after learning of the assassination of JFK. RFK delivering speech. "but he was killed by a white man. But we have to make an effort in the United States, we have to make an effort to understand, to go beyond these rather difficult times. My favorite poet was Aeschylus."
Mannlicher-Carcano Rifle
See catalog # 540151 for identical footage w/out audio Mannlicher-Carcano Rifle CU unidentified young man in gun shop being interviewed by reporter with microphone, pan down as the young man shows off a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, the same type used by Lee Harvey Oswald in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Great MS several rifles & shotguns for sale in the gun shop. Panning MCU firearms tagged for sale.
A Roll of "The Last Two Days"
Interesting traveling shot dawn/dusk sky & pinkish clouds (view from plane in flight).
A Roll of "The Last Two Days"
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A Roll of "The Last Two Days"
(Note that 2-4 secs of black follow each shot within this segment.) TLS White House, night. TLS water fountain on South Lawn of White House, night.
A Roll of "The Last Two Days"
Fantastic COLOR (ektachrome) A Roll 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.