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President Kennedy throws out first ball on opening day of the 1963 baseball season

View of huge crowd that fills DC Stadium in Washington DC on opening day of the 1963 major league baseball season. President John F. Kennedy throws out the ceremonial first pitch. Players scramble for the ball, which is caught by Washington Senators catcher Ken Retzer. Closeup of Senators pitcher Don Rudolph. Rudolph gives up solo home run to Baltimore Orioles first baseman Jim Gentile. President Kennedy cheers as Gentile crosses home plate. Later, Rudolph gives up another homer, this one a two-run shot by Orioles left fielder Boog Powell. Orioles win the game, 3-1.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1963, April 8
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039123
Roy Wilkins comments recalling the 1963 March on Washington in Washington DC

Civil Rights leader Roy Wilkins talks and reflects on the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom . View of marchers carrying banners advocating equal rights. Clarence Mitchell talks about Roy Wilkins.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1977
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034355
Civil rights demonstrations, racial tensions, and school integration in America in the early 1960's.

African American men and women carry signs and demonstrate for equal rights outside a restaurant or store in the United States for civil rights. Jesse Jackson leads crowd in his "I am somebody" chant. A sign in the gathered crowd reads, "Jesse Jackson Black Jesus". Views of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28 1963, highlighting civil rights issues for African Americans. Next scene is during the Selma to Montgomery march and shows Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King marching next to James Michael Letherer (Jim Letherer) of Saginaw, Michigan. (Letherer, who lost his right leg to cancer as a child, did the entire march on crutches.) Next scene shows African American people as they riot and flip over a car during racial riots. A building burns during race riots. Ernest Green talks to others at the headquarters for the Apprenticeship Program of the Workers Defense League, funded by the A. Philip Randolph Education Fund. A white man enters a voting booth. White and black people at a polling place. Narrator says that African American voting is increasing in America. Images of of Mayor Carl Stokes,a black political leader in Cleveland, Ohio; Jesse Jackson, Preacher; and Ernest Green (Ernie Green), Youth Organizer and Executive. View of grounds of the Washington and Lincoln Memorial teeming with protestors against inequality and segregation during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. View of United States Supreme Court building and point of view shot as camera approaches interior chamber of the Supreme Court. Black students outside a school. Exterior view of John Philip Sousa Junior High School in Washington DC shows integrated student body. View of white students demonstrating against integration at Little Rock. Interior view of integrated elementary school classroom with both white and black children. Curb side sit-in demonstration in a southern city. Picketing demonstrators outside the S&W Cafeteria hold signs that read, "Christian Morality Condemns Segregation" and "All Men are Created Equal." African American demonstrators at the lunch counter of the S&W Cafeteria are served a meal by the waitress, along side white patrons at the lunch counter. View of a swimming pool that has been closed by a municipality rather than allow integration.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1963
Duration: 4 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029511
President John F Kennedy working at the White House, and touring NASA space program facilities in the United States.

Scene of the White House. Various scenes of President John F Kennedy working in his office in the White House in Washington DC. President Kennedy at his desk, and with advisors. President arrives at Cape Canaveral on November 16, 1963 for a tour and to witness a Polaris missile launch. Scenes of John F. Kennedy talking with NASA personnel and watching a rocket launch. Wernher Von Braun is seen with Kennedy. Audio includes Kennedy's statement from 1962 at Rice University when he said "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon, and returning him safely to the earth." President Kennedy views models of spacecraft and listens to NASA engineers. View of President Kennedy at the White House presenting the NASA Distinguished Service Medal to astronaut John Glenn on February 23, 1962, after Glenn's successful Friendship 7 mission. A helicopter carrying President John Kennedy lands on a ship on November 16, 1963. A sailor blows a whistle. President meets officers on the ship and is seen on the bridge. President Kennedy observes the under water launch of a Polaris missile through binoculars. President Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B Johnson with a Navy officer looking at a system used to operate and launch rockets. Audio overlay includes a speech by Kennedy reflecting on the threat of nuclear war.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1963, November
Duration: 5 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034340
U.S. President Kennedy's American University Commencement Address in Washington DC about America and Soviet Union relationships.

U.S. President John F Kennedy delivers American University Commencement Address in Washington DC speaking about America and Soviet Union relationships. He raises questions about Nuclear war its consequences. Communist drive to impose their political and economic system on others is the primary cause of world tension. He points out that despite differences there are some common links between America and Soviet Union and they should conduct affairs in such a way that is acceptable to both. He emphasizes reexamining the American attitude towards the cold war. Also raises issues of strengthening the United Nations as an instrument of global security, direct line between Moscow and Washington DC, Geneva talks, outlawing of nuclear tests. He confirms that high level discussions will shortly begin in Moscow for Comprehensive Test ban treaty. 10 June 1963.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1963, June 10
Duration: 11 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034024
U.S. President John F Kennedy delivers American University Commencement Address in Washington DC.

U.S. President John F Kennedy delivers American University Commencement Address in Washington DC. The speech addresses issues of university education, peace, war, nuclear arms and disarmament. The President highlights the need to examine American attitude towards peace as well as the Soviet Union. 10 June 1963.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1963, June 10
Duration: 10 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034023
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