Transfer of office from outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower to President elect John F Kennedy. Exterior view of the White House after a snow fall. View of Kennedy sitting at his desk in the Oval Office. View of part of the National Mall in the snow, with Washington Monument in the distance in Washington DC. John F Kennedy with wife Jacqueline Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Vice President Richard Nixon, former President Harry Truman, members of Congress, Supreme Court Judges, Diplomats, representatives of the art and literature community including contralto singer Marian Anderson and poet Robert Frost, Vice-President elect Lyndon Johnson, and others walking in the U.S. Capitol Building toward the inauguration ceremony seating. John F Kennedy takes Presidential Oath of Office administered by Chief Justice Earl Warren witnessed by a large crowd. President begins his Inaugural speech. 20 January 1961.
United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower and President elect John F. Kennedy at the White House in Washington D.C., United States. President Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy arrive at the White House. Photographers take pictures. Dignitaries meet at the White House to discuss transfer of administration and the problems and resolutions of the nation. John F. Kennedy leaves the White House after a cordial meeting with the President. He gives a brief speech and thanks President Eisenhower.
The unveiling of the "Avenue John F. Kennedy" sign in Ettelbruck, Luxembourg. Crowds of Luxembourgish guests gathered in Avenue John F. Kennedy. People view the "Avenue John F. Kennedy" sign on the street. Flags of Luxembourg hanging on a building. United States and Luxembourgish officials standing, some of them saluting at the same time. A military band plays music. A conductor leads the band. Band musicians play the trombone. Women and elderly men watch the band on the street. Children standing on the street. Military officials lower their hands after saluting. Various guests socializing. Two women, Helen Enid Hammerman Rivkin and her daughter (Laura or Julie), get inside a Diplomatic Corps 1963 Oldsmobile 98 sedan. United States Ambassador to Luxembourg, William R. Rivkin, looks on before joining his wife and daughter inside the Diplomatic Corps car. The Diplomatic Corps 1963 Oldsmobile 98 sedan drives away.
The unveiling of the "Avenue John F. Kennedy" sign in Ettelbruck, Luxembourg. Simultaneously celebrated the same day is “General Patton Remembrance Day”. Luxembourgish and United States military officials cutting a ribbon at Ettelsbruck. Road sign reads “Ettelsbruck”. A Grand Ducal gendarme in Luxembourg. Guests from the United States Air Force, military and diplomatic corps arrive at a function to commemorate General Patton Remembrance Day. Flags of the United States and Luxembourg hanging on a building. Gendarmes salute the arriving guests. A flag bearing the coat of arms of the United States. A woman exits from a car. A man and a woman enter the building. A United States Air Force staff car arrives in Avenue John F. Kennedy. Crowds gathered to watch the unveiling of the plaque in Avenue John F. Kennedy. Luxembourgish politician speaks from a podium.
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.
President John F Kennedy and wife Jacqueline Kennedy in Inauguration Parade cheered by crowd in Washington DC. Parade includes floats presented by various states and military. Float representing President's home state Massachusetts and its Governor John A Volpe and Vice President Lyndon Johnson's home state Texas. President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson with their wives at the Inaugural Ball introduce members of the Cabinet, Secretary of State Dean Rusk with his wife, Secretary of Treasury C Douglas Dillon with his wife, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and wife, Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy, and Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson and his Daughter-in-Law.The following day all the cabinet members and John F Kennedy taking charge. 20 January 1961.
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