| Kennedy Meets Helen Keller | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1683 |
| Catalog #: | 363823 | |
| Clip Number: | 363823-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 034-030-02 | |
| Timecode: | 00:33:48 - 00:34:26 | |
| Location: | Washington D.C., USA | |
| Year Shot: | 1961 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISABILITIES: Blindness DISABILITIES: Hearing Impaired LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Washington D.C. PERSONALITIES: Keller, Helen PERSONALITIES: Kennedy, John F ( JFK ) | |
| Description: | Kennedy Meets Helen Keller Side view of White House from behind trees. Quick but good newsreel of an 80-year-old Helen Keller meeting w/ JFK in Oval Office, April 8th, 1961, while she was in Washington to receive the annual humanitarian award of the District of Columbia Lions Club. MS's & CU's of Keller and her secretary, Mrs. Evelyn Seide, talking in sign language (using the "manual alphabet", a sign language in which each letter is signed onto the hand of the deaf-blind person so that he or she can feel it). Kennedy speaks and watches as aide translates into signs; then he takes Miss Keller's hand (don't think he's doing any signing, just holding her hand as a friendly gesture). VO says Keller, deaf and blind since birth, has become a symbol of hope and achievement to the handicapped everywhere. | |
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