John F Kennedy gives inaugural speech on being elected as 35th President of U.S. in Washington DC. He raises issues of employment for poor, making United Nations more powerful and a new beginning for peace with adversaries through negotiation. 20 January 1961.
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.
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru discusses issues with U.S. President John F Kennedy at White House, Washington DC. Later in the evening Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi arrive at the White House for a state dinner and are greeted and seen posing with first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy. Indian Foreign Secretary M J Desai and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk present for the talks ranging free and independent states to outlaw of nuclear testing. Prime Minister's daughter Ms. Indira Gandhi visits District of Columbia Children's Hospital. Exterior of Children's Hospital in Washington DC. Inside, they visit a young girl named Jane Franzella, who has polio, and is is receiving a treatment in a whirlpool tank. Ms. Indira Gandhi receives and admires a painting or drawing created for her by the girl, Jane. Ms. Gandhi and Mrs Rusk observe children in a room receiving therapy to improve the muscular coordination of disabled children. Boys and girls work with nurses and therapists in the room. Scene changes to exterior view of the newly decorated Indian Embassy in Washington DC. Inside, Indian Ambassador to America, B K Nehru, and his wife, greet guests as they arrive for a dinner in honor of Prime Minister Nehru and his daughter. Friends and diplomats from the Washington DC community arrive and greet Prime Minister Nehru.
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru addresses national and international correspondents about India's development at the National Press Club in Washington DC. After lunch the Prime Minister responds to the press' questions about Nuclear testing by the Soviet Union.
'Faces of America' depicting life in the United States. View of grasslands or plains and a tractor pulling equipment near bales of hay. Scene changes to a building under construction just outside an urban area, with city skyline in background. Workers high atop steel girders. Fisherman at a dock raises his catch of oysters or clams in nets up a rope to the dock. Man golfing tees off. Two girls sitting in grass beside a building and enjoying a soda pop from a bottle. A man painting a building. Woman talking on a pay phone along a city street. A smiling African American man in a suit. A cowboy wearing hat and sunglasses. Rapid montage of people of various races including white, African American, Latino, various ethnic backgrounds, and ages, including children and adults and elderly people in the United States. Elderly, thin man farmer in overalls smokes a cigarette. Blond haired girl blowing up a pink balloon. Business man talking on telephone in office. Boy on Native American Indian reservation. Man ponders paperwork in his lap, as a woman plays with an infant in background on a ground-level bed in an apartment. Men and women walking and talking together among trees and on city streets. Angry people shouting and waving hands. Concerned and sad people being consoled as a person on a stretcher is loaded into emergency ambulance. Man consoles a sad elderly woman. Woman laying across park bench.
People pass time in America by reading books, weaving pullovers, watching television. Woman seated at the base of a statue in an American city. 1960's cars and a buses in background. A man seated in a library reading at a table with book shelves behind. Men in a park playing board games; one smoking a cigar. Group of people lined up on a city street; pan of camera in close view across faces of American people of varying backgrounds, races, ages, and nationalities. A couple sitting in their living room on rocking chairs watching television. The man smokes a pipe while the woman knits. An African American family on the porch of a house near a road side in the rural south.
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