Jacqueline Kennedy Film: John F Kennedy Library, 1964

Jacqueline Kennedy hosts a twenty-six minute film for the John F. Kennedy Library, created early in 1964, a few months after the president's death. (This version solves a © issue from an earlier uploaded version of this flim.

She explains what a presidential library is—over footage of the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Hoover libraries— discusses President Kennedy's plans for his own, and shows a long series of clips from the president's term such as White House events and speeches, including Berlin.

Created by the John F. Kennedy Library—established in December 1963—the film was the first public appeal for support for the Kennedy Library (which finally opened in 1979, and not in Cambridge, as the president wished, but in Dorchester, Massachusetts).

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