| Time Warp Outs -- Political Ads | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 132 |
| Catalog #: | 316022 | |
| Clip Number: | 316022-1 | |
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| Location: | USA | |
| Year Shot: | 1964 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | COMMERCIALS: Political | |
| Description: | Distinctive ad for President Johnson's reelection, targeting moderate Republicans. Man enters frame, sifting through debris left over from 1964 Republican convention. CU Rockefeller sign and picture, with narrator quoting Nelson R's warning that Goldwater would spell disaster for the Party and the country. Scranton quoted on Goldwaterism as "crazy quilt collection of absurd and dangerous positions." George Romney quoted on "suicidal destruction" of GOP should Barry Goldwater win nomination. If you're worried about Goldwater, goes the pitch, you're in good company. Title at end reads "Vote for President Johnson on November 3." 01:02:10 "Confessions of a Republican:" fresh-faced, nervous, sincere man speaks of Republican past and fears of the GOP nominee: "This man [Goldwater] scares me." Stumblingly, earnestly he speaks of his discomfort and fear of nuclear war. He lights cigarette and says, "Sometimes I wish I'd been at that convention in San Francisco... I would have fought. If you unite behind a man you don't believe in... when the head of the KKK, when all these weird groups come out behind the candidate, either they're not Republicans, or I'm not." 01:06:29 same spot repeated 01:12:21 Little girl with flower, zoom in as she counts the petals she's pulling off, zoom in and still frame into her eye. Explosion of nuclear bomb over LBJ voice, "These are the stakes -- to make a world in which all of God's children can live, or to go into the darkness. We must either love each other, or we must die." 01:13:39 atom bomb explosion, narrator quotes Goldwater on The Bomb: "...'it's merely another weapon.' Merely another weapon?" 01:14:12 Pregnant woman walks with girl in woods, flute music creating an idyllic scene. Woman's narrator vo speaks of Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Each ad ends "Vote for President Johnson on November 3. The stakes are too high for you to stay home." | |
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