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Kennedy Elected

Reel Number: 221508-23

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1960

Country: USA

Location: Boston,California,Hyannis Port,Los Angeles,Massachusetts,New York City,Pennsylvania

TC Begins: 04:31:43

TC Ends: 04:37:53

Duration: 00:06:10

Kennedy Elected Sign: Legal Holiday, Election Day, November 8, 1960. People in at polls, waiting in line. Into booth, signing in & Catholic priests into booth. Eisenhower arrives by helicopter to cast his vote, Barlow Firemen’s Hall. Ike out of curtains, putting ballot in box. Mamie Eisenhower out of car wearing large Nixon button, shaking hands & casts vote. 04:32:49 Crowds outside Boston Pubic Library, John F Kennedy arrives w/ wife Jackie to vote. VP Richard Nixon & wife Pat vote in Los Angeles suburb home. Henry Cabot Lodge casts vote. Lyndon B Johnson, LBJ, casts vote. Public voting. Salinger & others looking at teletype machines. 04:34:07 Night & Times Square zipper banner (moving electric light news sign) says Kennedy overcomes slow start. Hyannis Port, JFK & Jackie in gardens pose for press. 04:34:32 Nixon & wife at local campaign headquarters; more or less acknowledges defeat (SOF). 04:35:24 Voters signing in & voting. Next day, news stand, man picks up newspaper, New York Mirror, Headlines Kennedy. John F Kennedy w/ Jackie, Mother, Rose, & Father, Joseph, on stand, reads message sent to Nixon (SOF). Says to the public that next few years will be difficult & asks for help of the United States. Says he & his wife will prepare for a new administration & for a new baby. Posing 1960s; Presidential Election; Democrats; Republicans; Democracy;

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