UFA-Wochenschau 383/1963 29.11.1963

Kennedy + quote from Teilhard de Chardin - Chardin-portrait, great.
United States. -Newspapers headlines about d. werd m. Kennedy's assassination. taken away from news-stands, lesd newspaper. People on road m. stunned. Faces, weeping jg. Girl, close, mute + dull-looking gentlemen, headlines, close.
The crime:-still photo of Kennedy in car when driving through Dallas dissolves into motion, once. close to drive through the crowd with brilliant winkendem Kennedy, v. d., dare by vl. people, including reporters, that Kennedy, + Jacqueline b. drive-by, smiling, cutting close - shots resound - d. front d. building shot from - unrest - himself ausbreitd. Horror - companion gets out of car - COP looks up at the building - jg. Girls get into terror u. Faces turn away, close - the President's car empty – weeping women - shocked faces - murder weapon is taken away (held over head), close - Lee Oswald runs off - reporter set in motion of the UG - coffin with the Pres., will such transfer in car - Jacqueline tries to open door. -Honor guard on a street in Washington, at night, moving car, illuminated, total. -Input d. white. House with people entering at night, TV. The decomposing on coffin, totally close, men parade around, half close, guard the casket lower limit salary. Sabre, half-close. -Archive footage of Kennedy, k. portrait, illuminated, big. Deselect Pan flag on the roof of the Bonn City Hall on the balcony, total, close. -The farewell: Berlin. Rally outside Schöneb. Town Hall on the day of the funeral. At night. -Transparent "We have lost a friend" about floral arrangements, wreaths and candles-blasted Kennedy image, a woman flowers, weeping women, close to the Kennedy image with candles sets before + framed v. flowers, close. Waving flag with the Berlin bear at Dar, close - the U.S. flag over Versamml. Place i. Htrgr. - between t. Woman & older. Mr stehd. General, hand a. forehead holding close - illuminated. Kennedy portrait, big - plate "John F. Kennedy - Platz" is officially unveiled, close. -Washington. -Military trumpeter b. Dar., close, settles trumpet. -Once. Standing and Crouching people on the roadside, individuals with reduced. Heads once div., big -. Funeral procession (interview) - honor guard marches forward, half - drawn casket on horse, white horse, escorted by honor guard - follow big military music bands - roof + dome of St. Matthew's Cathedral, close, coffin is lifted from the car - once. the stehd before Cathedral. Companion train - Cardinal Cushing makes his worn - playing mil music Chapel blessing sign before the casket - casket is levels, half total - following the coffin: Jacqueline with both. Children & hint. her 2 brothers of Kennedy's, half close to countless leaders and statesmen, including de Gaulle Lübke, Eisenhower, Prince Philipp. -Gently above waving U.S. flag at half-mast on buildings, close. -Car goes road with column of slow moving car with Johnson under strict guard slowly by road with people trellis, close, half total, seen at an angle.
Arlington. -Div. once. Burial ceremonies at military cemetery. Jacqueline, headed by brothers Kennedy s close. Pan over the mourners, including in front row Lübke, de Gaulle, Erhard, Haile Selassie. Honor guard folds the Star-Spangled Banner, close. Jacqueline kindled an eternal light, close, expensed. Pan the FSO. Light at the foot of the casket on the honor guard before, Robert Kennedy stands together with Jacqueline, while clerics express their sympathy, close, she passes on honor guard, cemetery scene totally. -The successor with rose still photo Johnson to the oath. Hand next to Jacqueline standing close, both large individually. -Archivaufn. Johnson in Berlin. Johnson s speaks first words as President, outdoor b. darkness, large (original sound).

Title 7, 6 m KENNEDY quote de Cardin camera: Seib, reason, Pahl, Arndt, Vlasdeck, Luppa Dallas origin: Metro, Metro funeral origin: Metro, Metro, Metro flashback origin: Gaumont, Pathé journal farewell origin: Gaumont, Polygoon, Polkronika successor: Lyndon B, Johnson origin: archive material end brand

John F. Kennedy "In the modern world only the fantastic has a chance to be true."
This word of Teilhard de Chardin from a world in which the surprising reality begins to outstrip the imagination of people, condenses these days to headlines and reflects in faces full of shock and bewilderment. Probably never, it became apparent that the action slipped from the people and let them back in uncertainty and helplessness. Never before was so clearly to the truth as to the message the fantastic: the President was assassinated.
Hardly anyone has thought it possible, that this Kennedy, one of the three best guarded men of this earth could be murdered. Not only his Leibwähter, but his offensive against the hatred, his courage and his innocence seem to have to rest him against malice and ambush. But the events in Dallas taught us another. It happened a few seconds after these recordings, which show acclaimed and seemingly well guarded the presidential couple.
The House was shot out.
Eye-witnesses.
President's car then.
The murder weapon and the presumed killer - a Communist named Lee Oswald - now even murdered. While the reporter still attach themselves to his heels, returns home in the city and the House, where three years ago the American people had called him the dead President for the last time. His wife managed him.
Night hour goodbye America at the White House by his Chief and head of Government. The hopes that were associated with his name in a bronze coffin ended by an Act whose meaning and construction remain incomprehensible. We knew John Fitzgerald Kennedy as a Harvard student, as a great orator and convincing leadership nature.
Under him, the White House became the social intersection of Europe and America. The charisma of the couple moved the best forces of the country under their spell. Harmony and balance the image up in the family details certain, given the image of the politician. Kennedy was cool and calculating, realistic enough to recognize the need for military superiority.
But this really creative in its political mission was the harmony of two style elements that were previously deemed incompatible: he United hardness, persistence, even threat with flexibility and willingness to negotiate. A bold demonstration of the superiority of an independent mind over the power of the factual. A humanity froze in fear of war went into motion when Kennedy signed the nuclear test ban agreement. A few months ago before the Town Hall of Bonn, Kennedy showed that it was not weakness and delusion if he forwards pushed the limits of human freedom to defend and thus became the hope of also the still unfree: "in a great half-circle, stretching from Berlin to Saigon, we want to keep this free world free until the day comes, as Thomas Jefferson predicted it would"", that the disease of liberty, which is catching, spreads throughout the world."
It was also his youth fascinated by him, and she fascinated especially the youth. Because it was he who put the desires and expectations of the young generation, which is so similar in all countries, and thus consciously made. In Frankfurt, he said: "political leaders come and go; "what I hope remains between the United States and Germany is not only a strong feeling of sympathy and friendship, but therefore a recognition in this great struggle in which we now, exist, this great struggle to which we devote our lives, the struggle to maintain freedom and expend it throughout the world."
Political leaders come and go. But what remains between the United States and Germany, is the recognition of the struggle for freedom, which we dedicate our lives.
EinenTag later in Berlin: "all free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. "And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words: I am a Berliner."
The Berlin some him this sentence, then - and now, in the hour of his burial gathered himself Once again hundreds of thousands before the Schöneberg Town Hall.
At the same hour in Washington. It is a national day of mourning. The Americans bid farewell to its dead President. The funeral procession reached the St. Matthew's Cathedral. Cardinal Cushing, who believe the Kennedys and baptized their children, celebrates the Pontifikal-Requiem.
Almost all big this earth follow the coffin.
The Church is moving the flow of mourners, among them the strictly guarded President Johnson, to Arlington.
According to his wife, the dead President to a military cemetery is buried in accordance with the word that General de Gaulle said to Kennedy's death: he died like a soldier.
While the honor guard folds the Star-Spangled Banner for you, Jacqueline Kennedy lit an eternal light. John F. Kennedy was buried.
Only 1 hour, 38 minutes after Kennedy's death was Lyndon B. Johnson as the 36th President of the United States sworn in,-the man who has given courage and confidence the Berliners after the 13th of August.
Johnson's first official words as President were: I'm going to do my best. I beg your and God's help.
"I will do my best - that is all I can do. I ask for your help and God's."

Date of Release:

29.11.1963

Year of Production:

1963

Camera Work:

Grund; Luppa; Pahl, Georg; Seib, Gerhard; Vlasdeck, Willy; Arndt

Rights Holder:

Federal Republic of Germany

Producer:

Deutsche Wochenschau GmbH

Source Foreign Material:

Polygon; Pathé Journal; Gaumont; Polkronika; Metro

Film Format:

35 mm

Colour:

b/w

Audio:

Sound

Languages:

German