Tributes To President (1963)

Item title reads - Tributes to President.



Memorial services for assassinated American President John F. Kennedy are held at St. Paul's cathedral, London and St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire.



L/S St. Paul's cathedral. L/S people arriving. M/S schoolboys in uniform. M/S crowds outside behind barrier. M/S Cannon Collins arriving. M/S Mr and Mrs Butler arriving. M/S Tom Driberg walking up steps. M/S Nubar Gulbenkian the oil king arriving. L/S front of the cathedral. M/S Harold Wilson arriving with his wife. M/S Lord Clement Attlee on steps. M/S Lady Clementine Churchill escorted by son Randolph, they walk up steps and she shakes hands with Attlee. M/S Harold and Dorothy Macmillan. M/S black gentleman arriving.



Various shots Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home and his wife arriving. M/S American Ambassador David Bruce going up steps. L/S of the Lord Mayor's party, the Lord Mayor of London, Alderman Harman, walks slowly up steps. L/S clergy waiting at the main door for the royal arrivals. M/S pan as Princess Marina and Princess Alice walk up steps. M/S Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon, walking up steps. C/U the Duchess of Gloucester walking up the steps. C/U of the Saudi Arabian Ambassador arriving. M/S Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, stepping out of car and shaking hands with the Lord Mayor of London. M/S black woman in crowd wearing hat. C/U pan Duke walking up steps into cathedral. M/S crowds outside the cathedral listening to the service. L/S of the cathedral.



Various good shots of American servicemen and their wives about to go in to St. George's Chapel, Windsor. M/S British Guards officer. C/U pan Guards officer with pointed moustache. L/S St. George's Chapel. M/S Queen Elizabeth II leaving the Chapel accompanied by the Dean of Windsor and followed by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. L/S servicemen and wives leaving St. George's Chapel after the service.
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