The Big Day 1 868 Officers Are Graduated Footage

The Big Day: 1,868 Officers Are Graduated
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	Catalog #:	362176
	Clip Number:	362176-1
	Orginal Film:	036-047-02
	Timecode:	00:40:38 - 00:43:30
	Location:	United States
	Year Shot:	1963 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	No
	Headings:	CEREMONIES: Graduations EDUCATION & SCHOOLS: Military LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Colorado LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Maryland LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York State
	Description:	The Air Force, Naval and Military Academies graduate their new officers. Colorado Springs, Colorado At the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, President Kennedy calls for the partnership of government and business in developing a supersonic passenger plane to hold the US lead in commercial aviation. Four hundred and ninety three Air Force Cadets at the United States Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs sitting on folding chairs. MS - President Kennedy standing at the podium. MCUS - President Kennedy shaking hands and handing out diplomas and a small chit chat here and there with the graduating cadets. MS - Three hundred and ninety three white caps are thrown up into the air. Annapolis, Maryland Across the country at Annapolis the Navy Academy graduates receive their diplomas from Vice-President Lyndon Johnson who asks them to remember that America did not "strive for peace because we are weak, but rather because we are strong." Sign hanging off a post, United States Naval Academy in Maryland, there's a graduating class of 871 young men. MS - Vice President presiding at the ceremony. MS - Vice President Lyndon Banes Johnson shaking hands with the Naval Officers and handing out their diplomas. MCUS - The last Naval man to graduate is called an anchor man and is handed an anchor. MS - All the Naval men throw up their hats after graduating. West Point, New York Graduation day at West Point recalls the first dark weeks of World War II. Commissioned is Colin Kelly, III, son of Uncle Sam's first national hero who was killed in the sinking of a Japanese battleship. President Roosevelt requested whoever would be President when he grew up to appoint him to the Military Academy. In 1963 comes the sequel to a story begun in 1941. Graduation day at West Point. CUS - Colin Kelly III the son of the first national hero who was killed in the sinking of a Japanese battleship. CUS - Colin Kelly III as a toddler days after his father was killed. CUS - Mrs. Collins and a 5 x 10 snap shot of her husband and father of Colin Kelly. Because of his father's heroism, Collin was appointed to West Point as a toddler. MS - Collins firs day of arrival at West Point. MS - Colin Kelly marching. MS - Colin Kelly receiving his diploma along with 503 cadets. MS - The graduates throw their hats up in the air.