{"id":535,"date":"2013-11-22T22:24:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T22:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premierepicturesinc.com\/wordpress\/?p=535"},"modified":"2021-06-09T02:38:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T02:38:33","slug":"535","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierepicturesinc.com\/wordpress\/535\/","title":{"rendered":"JFK on NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZXXZrHpBIuo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Just before the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, NBC&#8217;s <em>Today Show<\/em> aired footage of JFK, that Premiere had found and restored. The footage shows JFK himself, and Robert F. Kennedy, his brother,\u00a0campaigning for JFK&#8217;s presidency, JFK&#8217;s speeches after being elected, and the funeral procession after his death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The written article is copied below, and the video from the <em>Today Show<\/em> is shown above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just days before the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy\u2019s assassination, newly discovered documentary footage offers glimpses of JFK as a personable young candidate on the presidential campaign trail, as well as footage of him years later, riding in the limousine in which he would be shot to death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aired for the first time Friday on TODAY, the exclusive 8mm color footage shows Kennedy stumping for votes, often accompanied by his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver. In one shot, he\u2019s in Sioux City, Iowa, riding a white mule that local Democrats tried to pass off as a donkey. The clip shows Kennedy\u2019s head bobbing above a sea of people crowding around him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another clip, Kennedy is campaigning in Aliquippa, Pa., fighting for passage of the minimum wage and encouraging the crowd to \u201cvote Democratic on November 6, 1962.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Untold hours of the amateur footage were recently discovered by the photographer\u2019s grandson. A copy of the archive will be donated to the Library of Congress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presidential historian Michael Beschloss described the film clips as a moving piece of history. \u201cEspecially because we&#8217;ve seen so much of him, and he&#8217;s been gone for 50 years, that to find new footage almost brings him back to life,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The footage also includes a clip of Kennedy riding in the Lincoln Continental limousine in which he would be killed just five months later, on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ron Merk, president of Premiere Pictures, Intl., called it \u201cthe most chilling footage\u201d in the collection and reminiscent of the Abraham Zapruder film that captured the assassination. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;When I looked at the film for the first time, I thought, wow, this is an amazing bit of history,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also footage of Kennedy&#8217;s funeral and a shot of his son, John F. 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