| KENNEDY ELECTED | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1678 |
| Catalog #: | 497269 | |
| Clip Number: | 497269-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 033-091 | |
| Timecode: | 00:15:53 - 00:22:02 | |
| Location: | VARIOUS | |
| Year Shot: | 1960 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ELECTIONS: Results ELECTIONS: Voting PERSONALITIES: Kennedy Family PERSONALITIES: Kennedy, Jacqueline PERSONALITIES: Kennedy, John F ( JFK ) PERSONALITIES: Nixon, Richard M. | |
| Description: | KENNEDY ELECTED Voters standing in line. American flag in stand next to voters. Man showing black man to voting booth, curtain closes. Man signing registry. Priests take turns to vote in booth. Curtain closes. President Eisenhower arrives by helicopter to place his ballot for the election of the 35th President of the United States of America. Eisenhower steps out from behind curtain with ballot and places glasses in pocket. Eisenhower is shown putting his ballot in the ballot box. Mrs. Eisenhower arrives by car later in the day, greeting voters. Mrs. Eisenhower goes behind curtains to cast her vote. Eager crowds waiting outside Boston Public Library, where Mr. & Mrs. John F. KENNEDY ELECTED Kennedy came to place their votes earlier in the day, before flying on to Cape Cod to wait out the results. Vice President Nixon and his wife Pat, vote in a play room of a private home in California. Reporter taking notes outside. Nixon and Pat emerge from voting booths. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge gives his ballot to woman. Senator Lyndon Johnson and wife arrive to place votes. Johnson putting ballot into box. Lines of voters. Black and white voters. Woman placing ballot in box. CU Ballot box. Registration lines. Rows of newsreel cameras and lights. Tallying votes. Building with electronic scroll reads: KENNEDY OVERCOMES SLOW START - PULLS AHEAD OF NIXON. Senator John F. Kennedy and Jackie at Hyannis Port waiting out returns. News reporters and photographers taking pictures of Mr. & Mrs. Kennedy and Caroline. At night, Nixon appeared with his wife at G.O.P. Headquarters. Cheers by campaign workers. Nixon declares defeat, and shows support to Kennedy. Newspaper stand. Man buying newspaper. KENNEDY! on front page of newspaper. President elect Kennedy with Jackie, and his mother and father on stage. Ted and Robert Kennedy are seen standing behind their parents. Kennedy speaks of the wire he sent Vice President Nixon. Kennedy sisters. Kennedy remarks, "Now my wife and I prepare for a new administration, and a new baby." Kennedy and Jackie. | |
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