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Kennedy In Warsaw: Throngs Ignore Curb on Welcome

Kennedy In Warsaw: Throngs Ignore Curb on Welcome
Clip: 425286_1_1
Year Shot: 1964 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1725
Original Film: 037-053-01
HD: N/A
Location: Krakow, Poland
Timecode: 00:28:10 - 00:30:05

"Attorney-General Robert Kennedy & his family continue to enjoy riotous receptions behind the Iron Curtain. In Krakow, despite an official news blackout, the crowd gets the word & the Kennedy s spend most of their 6-hour visit on the roof of their sedan to escape the emotional crowds." High angle LS crowd surrounding car parked in street. MS U.S. Attorney General ROBERT F. KENNEDY, wife ETHEL KENNEDY, and three unidentified children (might be RFK Jr. and Mary Courtney Kennedy) standing on car, waving to crowd. MS elderly woman offering flowers to Ethel Kennedy. MS crowd surging on Robert Kennedy in doorway, RFK smiling grandly. TLS/MSs RFK, Ethel holding flowers, waving to crowd from stairs at Jagiellonian University. TLS/MSs Robert & Ethel Kennedy touring Jagiellonian facility. CU RFK. MSs RFK being shown Jagiellonian Globe. MS crowd smiling, pushing. Nice traveling MS Bobby Kennedy walking streets, waving. Panning MS throng of women wearing babushkas walking through courtyard toward Kennedy entourage; CU Bobby smiling, talking with women, shaking hands. TLS/MSs Kennedy s riding atop car traveling through streets, RFK standing & waving, Ethel sitting on hood & signing autographs. MS Bobby signing autograph, then standing, refusing to sign another one. MS Kennedy son (RFK Jr.?) signing autograph. TLS/MSs bronze statue of Thaddeus Kosciuszko on horseback; MS Robert Kennedy admiring statue. MS Bobby Kennedy speaking to crowd from top of car. More shots of Kennedy s riding atop car.