View of United States Ship Halsey at a navy yard in San Francisco. View of Navy Secretary Fred Korth and Naval Officers getting on the ship. Guided missile frigate, USS Halsey commissioning ceremony starts. View of Navy Officer at Speaker's stand and guests at the ceremony are seated. The crew of the Halsey assembles and stands in a formation. Ceremony in progress.
United States military units of Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard marching. Marching units are followed by Joint Chiefs of Staff, Color Guard and horse-drawn caisson carrying flag-draped casket of President John Kennedy. Funeral cortege following the marching units turning right to reach White House. Crowd lined up on sidewalk.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk arrives by plane and is met by VIPs. Rusk talking to VIPs. Cameramen taking pictures. He speaks into microphone and other VIPs surround him. Then he walks to car and drives off.
Members of President Kennedy's cabinet alighting from aircraft VC-137B. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, in center talking with newsmen. With him, from left to right are Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, Secretary of Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall, Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges, Dr. Walter Heller, Chairman of Council on Economic Advisors and Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz. View of VIPs leaving in car.
View of U.S. Army Air Corps officers and cadets at Detroit City Hall. The air cadets being sworn in for service in the United States Army in World War 2. Hollywood stars Bud Abbott and Lou Costello along with Dick Foran on hand for the swearing in to congratulate the new airmen. The comedy due Abbott and Costello also seen escorting actress Carol Bruce at the Premier of their new comedy movie. Views of large crowd and few several police officers restraining the crowd beneath the Fox Theater marquee and entrance as it shows premier of movie "Keep 'Em Flying."
Aircraft being delivered from United States to Britain during World War 2 as part of lend-lease program: Liberator bombers, Harvard-IIs, Bostons (British A-20), Lockheed P-38 and B-17E taking off for England piloted by the U.S. Army Air Corps Ferry Command.
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