On a sketch of the Texas School Book Depository Building 6th floor, a narrator points out locations pertinent to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. Camera shows stacks of boxes near windows on the 6th floor of the Building, as it pans across the scene. It focuses on a reconstructed scene of boxes near the window with Elm Street below to the right. A Secret Service agent is shown sitting in a position believed the same as the assassin and pointing in the direction that his rifle would have been.Views out the window of traffic moving on streets below. Next, an open convertible car is seen accompanied by two motorcycle police, simulating the movement of the President's motorcade as it turned from Main onto Houston Street. Narrator notes that next turn, from Houston onto Elm Street is quite sharp and driven very slowly. Narrator describes the shots fired as the car retraces specific locations on the route. Photograph of reenactment made for the President's Commission, using the Secret Service followup car. It shows telescopic sight cross hairs as the assassin would see them. Next the car being driven in the current reenactment is viewed through a four power, 18mm Ordnance Optical Incorporated rifle scope, like the one used by the assassin.That last part of the film is shown again in slow motion.
Senate Majority Leader Ernest W. McFarland administers an oath of office to Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana, and other Senators in Washington DC in United States. Senator McFarland congratulates the Senators after the oath taking.
President John F. Kennedy visits the SAC (Strategic Air Command) headquarters in Omaha. He presents a plaque recognizing the flights made during Cuban crisis. He visits the 'Project Rover' center in Los Alamos (working on nuclear-thermal rockets). He sees the steps accomplished in developing nuclear power for rockets to outer space.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivers a speech in Washington D.C., United States. The President, while addressing a conference, speaks about the food and drug laws of the country, and references issues with the drug Thalidomide. He informs about the decision to increase the staffing at the food and drug administration (FDA). He also talks about a bill that has been introduced in the Congress to allow rapid removal of drugs from the market that prove hazardous to public health and should potentially be illegal.
President John F Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, is shot dead during a jail transfer at Dallas police headquarters. Jack Ruby shoots at Oswald during the transfer. Oswald rushed to Parkland Memorial hospital and taken out of a vehicle as he lies on a stretcher.
Graduation ceremony for Air Force and Naval graduates in the United States. Spectators look as cadets are graduated at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Colorado. U.S. President John F. Kennedy addresses the graduates and the spectators from a dais. 493 cadets graduate. The graduates come up on the dais and shake hands with the President. The cadets fly their hats in the air. A board in Annapolis reads 'United States Naval Academy'. 871 graduates are seated during the graduation ceremony. They walk up on a stage and are presented graduation certificates by U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. The anchorman, who is the last one to get the certificate, is cheered by his fellows.
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