UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL: KENNEDY ELECTED (NOVEMBER 10TH 1960, B&W, 5:50)
An entire newsreel devoted to the election of JFK, the defeat of Richard Nixon and preparations for the transfer of power from President Eisenhower.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL: STRATEGY TALKS - KENNEDY CONFERS WITH HIS CONGRESS LEADERS (DECEMBER 22ND 1960, B&W, 0:42)
The Palm Beach Strategy Conference of Vice President Elect Johnson, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield meets with President Elect Kennedy to discuss their plans to advance Kennedy's agenda during his upcoming Presidency.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL: INAUGURATION - KENNEDY SWORN IN, NEW ERA BEGINS (JANUARY 23RD 1961, B&W, 6:01)
Covers Inauguration ceremonies for both President and Vice President, highlights Kennedy's Inauguration speech, after-ceremony luncheon. a view of post-inauguration parade and the Presidential balls ending off the day's events.
JFK PRESIDENTIAL PRESS CONFERENCES (B&W, 25:00)
24 highlight outtakes from the first televised presidential press conferences.
Track 05 JFK's entire inauguration speech
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL: PEACE CORPS - KENNEDY OUTLINES GLOBAL PROGRAM (MARCH 13TH 1961, B&W, 2:48)
The President famous initiative is shown in the light of US exhange students already pitching in to use their expertise to assist third world countries and shows the President explaining his initiative to newsreel cameras.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL: ANGLO-US AMITY (APRIL 6TH 1961, B&W, 6:07)
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JFK meets British Prime Minister MacMillan; Soviet conduct high-altitude animal tests; Khrushchev visits Siberian farms; B-47 bomber aircraft test remote control system; the Bronx Zoo; Germany vs Holland women's soccer game.
Track 08 JFK announces the Manned Moon Mission project, Joint Session of Congress, May 25, 1961
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL: COSMOS PIONEER - SOVIETS ORBIT MAN IN SPACE (APRIL 13TH 1961, B&W, 0:31)
The President comments to a shaken nation on the success the Soviets had in putting a man in space before the U.S..
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL: AS WORLD WATCHED - SPACEMAN HAILED AFTER U.S. TRIUMPH (MAY 8TH 1961, B&W, 1:51)
Astronaut Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space and is given a medal by President Kennedy in the White House Rose Garden before Shepard goes on parade up Pennsylvania Avenue.
AN ANSWER (1962, COLOR, 30:12)
The former Navy lieutenant addresses as President the men of the Second Fleet and Second Marine Division as part of this film's documentation of the state of the period's US Naval military hardware.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL: INDIA (MARCH 22ND 1962, B&W, 1:11)
The First Lady takes an elephant ride with her sister Princess Lee Radziwill while visiting India; U.S. keeps roads to Berlin open; NIce, France fashion show featuring silk; World Skating Championships in Prague; Academy Awards imminent.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL: KENNEDY ON TELSTAR - EUROPE SEES NEWS CONFERENCE (JULY 23RD 1962, B&W, 1:18)
National prestige soars as the U.S. orbits the fist modern communications satellite into orbit and uses it to broadcast a presidential press conference to Europe.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL: INCOME TAX CUT - KENNEDY HOPES TO SPUR ECONOMY (AUGUST 13TH 1962, B&W, 2:03)
The President gives a brief speech before newsreel cameras from the White House on tax cuts given to help prevent a recession.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL: KENNEDY TOUR - CALLS FOR U.S. LEAD IN SPACE (SEPTEMBER 13TH 1962, B&W, 3:45)
A trip to see Chief rocket scientist Werner von Braun in Huntsville, Alabama & the Mercury spacecraft, then visits Cape Canaveral, Houston Texas and Rice University where he delivers his famous "We Choose To Go To The Moon" speech, inspects the Gemini spacecraft at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, then visits the St Louis plant of McDonnell Aerospace. The latest in leather fashions follows.
UNVERSAL NEWSREEl: PRESIDENTIAL TOURS - KENNEDY INSPECTS MISSILE BASES (DECEMBER 10TH 1962, B&W, 2:17)
The Commander-In-Chief visits land based missile bases and inspects Los Alamos efforts toward making nuclear-propelled rockets for space exploration; snow storm paralyzes Ohio and the midwest.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL: SPACE TOUR - KENNEDY INSPECTS MISSILE CENTER / REDS FREE PROFESSOR (NOVEMBER 18TH 1963, B&W, 2:54)
The last newsreel of the president shows him visit Cape Canaveral (shortly to be renamed Cape Kennedy) to inspect work being done on the Saturn I missile, witnesses a Polaris missile test and his comments on the release of a Yale professor arrested by the Soviets on spy charges (audio/visual synchornization skew towards end).