News report on a White House ceremony in United States. President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Johnson present awards to astronaut Cooper and NASA, Air Force and Navy officials involved in NASA Mercury-Atlas MA-9 program. Other recipients include James E. Webb who is awarded with a medal and a certificate. Major General Leighton I. Davis is given a medal for outstanding leadership. General Ben I. Funk accepts NASA Group Achievement Award on behalf of Air Force System. Awards given to a Navy officer. Floyd L. Thompson holds certificate for outstanding leadership. Astronauts shake hands with President Kennedy. Attorney General Robert Kennedy holds his daughter on his shoulder.
Services at the All Saints Episcopal Church (All Saints' Episcopal Church 5619 Monte Vista St Los Angeles, CA 90042) in Los Angeles, California following the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy. People enter the church. Policemen stand guard outside. Mourners seated inside the church. The regular Protestant funeral service is read. Twelve ministers take part in the services. The choir sings. People bow their heads in mourning.
A national television report on the newly appointed U.S. Vice President Lyndon Johnson, broadcast after the assassination of President John F Kennedy in the United States. A correspondent interviews President Lyndon B Johnson. They discuss Johnson's flair for politics, his father as a Public Representative and his grandfather as a State Representative. Johnson talks about his work experience in Johnson City during World War I and the time he decided to enter politics. The correspondent questions him regarding his giving up the Majority Leadership in the Senate to become the Vice President.
A Press Conference with civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. in the United States. Correspondents include UN correspondent for the Ghana News Agency George Enninful, Mr Parshuram of the Indian Express and William Workman. They question and talk to African American clergyman and activist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They discuss American politics, the Radicals and Democrats, the late President John F Kennedy, the American constitution and legislation.
The state funeral of assassinated United States President John F Kennedy in Washington DC. The Kennedy family including Kennedy's wife Jacqueline, daughter Caroline, brother and Attorney General Robert Kennedy walk out of the U.S. Capitol (First St SE, Washington, DC 20004, United States). They come down the stairs. Guards on either side of the staircase. Newly appointed President Lyndon B Johnson and Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson (the First Lady) offer their condolences to Jacqueline Kennedy. She gets into a waiting limousine and leaves. Kennedy's flag draped casket on the Lincoln catafalque inside the Capitol Rotunda. Police escorts on motorbikes accompany Jacqueline Kennedy's car as it makes it's way down watered streets and Pennsylvania Avenue. A large crowd of people gathered on either side of the roads. Cars and pedestrians all along. A national television presenter reports about the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, the main suspect in the Kennedy assassination.
Foreign dignitaries arrive for the state funeral of assassinated U.S. President John F Kennedy. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk awaits the arrival of Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda at the Dulles Airport. Dean Rusk greets the Japanee PM as he arrives at the airport terminal. The dignitaries walk past the waiting photographers and journalists. Rusk and Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs Roger Hilsman lead the PM down a ramp towards a waiting car. The PM and Dean Rusk get into the State Department limousine and leave for Washington DC.