| ROBERT KENNEDY FUNERAL Funeral ceremonies of Robert F. Kennedy. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5026 |
| Catalog #: | 364719 | |
| Clip Number: | 364719-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 68/48 | |
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| Location: | New York, NY | |
| Year Shot: | 1968 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | FUNERALS: State, Kennedy, Robert LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York | |
| Description: | Same as catalog # 430635 ROBERT KENNEDY FUNERAL Funeral ceremonies of Robert F. Kennedy. (Robert Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, RFK) First; at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Opens with dramatic shot outside; looking up at cathedral. U. S. flag flying St. Patrick's Cathedral at half mast. Inside cathedral, group of men keeping vigil round coffin. Coffin draped with flag. Pallbearers stand on either side. People filing in. Men, women, children, black and white. People filing past coffin. Outside, shot from top of steeple down to people waiting in line to go in. Pan to crowds entering. GV Pan crowds queuing in street. DS showing line down the street, around corner. SV Policeman controlling crowds. Policeman speaks into megaphone to people crossing street. More shots of crowd. SV Group of nuns walking towards cathedral. People of different ages and ethnic backgrounds, rich and poor, etc .LV Queue entering cathedral. CU Baby asleep in mother's arm. Inside cathedral again, more people going by. People file past coffin. Outside, people exiting. People leaving cathedral. One African-American woman in black dress stands just outside looking shocked, as some other women, black and white, walk down the stairs. More people coming down stairs. Two older women crying. CU Woman crying. SV Another woman crying and being helped out by policeman. Cops helping one of the women walk. Shots of cathedral outside. People going in to the funeral mass. GV Crowds outside cathedral whilst service is in progress. CU Cary Grant. Coretta Scott King. Averell Harriman. Harry Belafonte. Richard Nixon. Nelson Rockefeller. Secretary of state Dean Rusk. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson. Inside church, priests going up aisle. CU LBJ. Cardinal sitting. Outside; the regular people sit. CUs of different faces in crowd. The cardinal comes out followed by other clerics. After the requiem mass, the cardinal, priests, coming out. Coffin carried out. The pall bearers stop and the coffin is blessed by cardinal. CU Edward Kennedy backing down stairs, helping carry coffin. CU Ethel Kennedy with son Joseph. Kennedy family following the coffin. LV Coffin is carried towards hearse. SV Members of family as they walk down steps. Assassinations; grief. | |
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