Focus on the 60s (1960-64)
Focus on the 60s (1960-64)
Focus on the 60s The idealism of the Kennedy years, the Civil Rights movement builds momentum, the March on Washington, and the escalation of the war in Vietnam.
Focus on the 60s (1960-64)
DO NOT USE Opening Credits.
Focus on the 60s (1960-64)
MSs U.S. President JOHN F. KENNEDY (JFK) walking through adorning crowds; MS middle-aged white man tossing confetti during parade. MS JFK introducing First Lady JACQUELINE KENNEDY at outdoor rally in Colombia; MCU Jackie speaking to crowd in Spanish; MSs Jackie taking seat, JFK smiling & applauding. TLS/MSs Peace Corps workers building a house, bricklaying, preparing & eating food in unidnetified African country; MS President John F. Kennedy delivering national address from White House about the purpose of the Peace Corps. The Idealism of the Kennedy years. MSs clean-cut young white men smiling upon President Kennedy, wearing dress shirt.
Focus on the 60s (1960-64)
DO NOT USE Civil Rights movement. Still of young white man w/ Confederate flag. Still of African-Americans being doused w/ fire hose. Still of black man being dragged with cop. Stills of blacks registering to vote.
Focus on the 60s (1960-64)
Civil Rights movement. Protests at University of Mississippi after refusal to admit black student, 1962: MS/TLSs state troopers patroling campus; MS Governor ROSS BARNETT sitting in car; MS police keeping peace; MS Ross Barnett tipping hat to cheering crowd of segregationists; MS National Guard rolling into town on Jeeps; MS student JAMES MEREDITH wearing suit, walking toward cam; MS President John F. Kennedy delivering national address concerning the incident and the decisions he made: "No mob however unruly or boisterous is entitled to defy a court of law." TLS/MSs Alabama Governor & segregationist GEORGE WALLACE speaking to crowd, blocking entrance to bldg at University of Alabama; MSs crowd, reporters, newsreel cameramen; MS National Guard officer saluting Gov. Wallace; MS George Wallace walking through crowd; MSs students JAMES HOOD and VIVIAN MALONE entering registration bldg. MS President Kennedy delivering nat'l address: "The fires of frustration & discord are burning in every city north & south. When legal remedies are not at hand, regress is sought in the street, in demonstrations, parades & protests which create tensions & threaten violence & lives. We face therefore a moral crisis in this country. We have a right to expect that the Negro community will be responsible, will uphold the law. But they have a right to expect that the law will be fair & that the Constitution will be color-blind."
Focus on the 60s (1960-64)
Civil Rights March on Washington, Aug 28, 1963: aerial shot of Washington Mall; TLS train pulling into station; MS blacks walking from train; TLKS buses on street; MS blacks walking from bus; MS march leaders ROY WILKINS, A. PHILIP RANDOLPH & WALTER REUTHER marching; MS Rev. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. marching; MS African-American men carrying Southern Christian Leaders Conference placard walking to cam; LSs crowd gathered on steps of Lincoln Memorial;
Focus on the 60s (1960-64)
REQUIRES ADDITIONAL CLEARANCES Civil Rights March on Washington, Aug 28, 1963. MS/CUs Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivering "I Have a Dream" speech-- "I have a dream that one day down in Alabama with its vicious racists, w/ its governor having his lips dripping w/ the words of interposition & nullification, little black boys & black girls will be able to join hands w/ little white boys & white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today." "So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of NH. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of NY. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of PA! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of CO! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of GA! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of TN! Let freedom ring from every hill & every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village & every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men & white men, Jews & Gentiles, Protestants & Catholics, will be able to join hands & sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" Aerial of Lincoln Memorial.
Focus on the 60s (1960-64)
DO NOT USE Stills of U.S. Army Green Berets and Airborne Rangers (Special Operations forces) in training.
Focus on the 60s (1960-64)
TLSs U.S. Army Huey UH-1 H helicopters taking off & in flight during Vietnam war; panning MS CH-47 Chinook helicopter in flight, side door gunner. MSs U.S. Army infantry soldiers deploying from choppers, wading into rice paddy. Nighttime MSs crowd gathered around a Buddhist monk committing suicide by self-immolation in protest of the Ngo Diem regime's heavy repressive Christian influence in South Vietnam. MSs Mme. NGO DINH NHU checking her makeup at a press conference, then speaking.