Officials of the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), and media representatives, tour the new high power Voice of America (VOA) radio transmitter in Greenville, North Carolina. They assemble outside the glass-enclosed sound studio control room as VOA Director, Henry Loomis, explains its workings. Mr.Loomis escorts USIA Director, Edward R. Murrow (smoking a cigarette). Views of recording equipment, magnetic tape recording machines running; extensive patch bays, with many connections; and many teletype machines.
Flag of United States at new transmitter building of Voice of America, in Greenville, North Carolina. Views of control building; antenna farms; towers; power substations; various arrays; and large open areas covered by these things.
United States President John F. Kennedy speaks at rally in parking lot opposite the at Hotel Texas (815 Main St, Fort Worth, TX 76102) in Fort Worth, Texas on the morning before his assassination. Others in attendance include Vice President Lyndon Johnson, Texas Governor John Connally, and Senator Ralph Yarborough. Rain and drizzle fall. The President is seen walking under a marquee at the hotel with words, "Welcome to Forth Worth, where the West begins", and out to the crowd waiting in the rain. He shakes hands with people in the crowd and then ascends a stage with the rest of the officials. After introductions, Vice-President Johnson speaks very briefly and then President Kennedy speaks at the podium, flanked by the other officials. The Presidential Seal is displayed on the podium. Men take pictures. Reporters take notes. People applaud after the speech. The President and the Vice President shake hands with people in the crowd. The President shakes hands with mounted police officers.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy accompanied by Vice President Johnson and Mrs. Johnson, at Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting in the Texas Hotel, on the morning of the day that the President was assassinated. Those present include Texas Governor Connally, Senator Yarborough, Men take pictures. The officials, Chamber of Commerce members and dignitaries applaud as President Kennedy walks on the stage. The Presidential Seal is displayed on the Podium. First Lady, Jackie Kennedy, is late arriving and applauded when she does. The President and Vice President greet her. Men take pictures. The President speaks to the assembly.
Crowds gather in vicinity of the Fort Worth, Texas, Police Headquarters. Officials gather inside. Uniformed police officers gather to discuss events and write their reports. American flags are flown at half staff on buildings all over the city, in mourning over the death of President Kennedy. Inside Police Headquarters, suspect Donald Wayne House (mistaken in some film and photos for Lee Harvey Oswald) is marched through the hall under arrest, and taken to the office of the Chief of Detectives. Sign on the Door reads: "K. N. Howard, Chief of Detectives, and O.R. Brown, Captain."
A young boy takes photographs and police officers watch as coffin containing body of Lee Harvey Oswald is brought to the chapel for burial at Shannon Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth, Texas. Funeral Director Paul Groody and assistants from Miller's Funeral Home move the coffin along the sidewalk. Spray flowers fall off the coffin and are put back again, as they move it. Several people, mostly photographers and reporters, gather outside the chapel.
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