Focus on the 60s - People
Focus on the 60s - People
Focus on the 60s - People. Lyndon B. Johnson, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy. Pope Paul VI in the United States, civil rights struggle, race relations, MLK assassination, etc. The turbulent late sixties.
Focus on the 60s - People
DO NOT USE Opening title & Stills of President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) with dignitaries including Lady Bird, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Harry Truman, Hubert H. Humphrey.
Focus on the 60s - People
MS LADY BIRD JOHNSON at groundbreaking ceremony. MS/CUs Lady Bird w/ President LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON (LBJ) outside the White House. Pope Paul VI visits United States, 1965: MS President Johnson meeting with POPE PAUL VI (Giovanni Battista Montini); MS Pope waving to crowd; LS United Nations Building; MS Pope Paul VI meeting w/ Secretary General U THANT at UN; TLS/LSs mass at Yankee Stadium. TLS Pope Paul VI meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1966. MS/CUs wedding & ceremonial cutting of the cake for LUCI BAINES JOHNSON & Patrick John Nugent, 1966. MSs President Johnson giving a "hip" welcome to a group of Caucasian high school scholars at the White House, 1967: "I just lived through several years with teenage girls in this house & it didn't affect me on bit. I've kept my cool, I haven't bugged out, and I'm still in Fat City."
Focus on the 60s - People
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Focus on the 60s - People
MS/CUs President LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON speaking to Joint Session of Congress, 1965: "There is no negro problem. There is no southern problem. There is no northern problem. There is only an American problem." (applause) "It is the effort of American negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of American life. Their cause must be out cause, too, b/c it is not just negroes but really it is all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry & injustice. And we shall overcome." Montage of Civil Rights marches: TLS African-American marching w/ banner "We March With Selma!"; TLS blacks & whites marching w/ placards; MS white & black women marching w/ large sign-- "We Shall Overcome!"; MS rural blacks & white marching, many folks in straw hats & overalls. MS Dr. Rev. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. walking on second march through Selma; TLS civil rights marchers crossing Edmund Pettus Bridge on second march to Montgomery, Alabama; panning TLS state & local police officers forming police line during 1st march through Selma.
Focus on the 60s - People
(Color) MS black revolutionary STOKELY CARMICHAEL speaking to an exclusively African-American audience: "We will define Black Power. He will listen & recognize it... If you don t want any trouble, keep your filthy white hands off our beautiful black bodies." MS several young black women cheering, standing, applauding enthusiastically. Cut to MS Rev. Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. speaking: "It seems I can hear the God of history saying, That was not enough, but I was hungry & you fed me not; I was naked & ye clothed me not; I was devoid of a decent sanitary hosue to live in & ye provided no shelter for me; consequently you cannot enter the kingdom of greatness."
Focus on the 60s - People
(Color) MCU honorary member of the Black Panthers H. RAP BROWN speaking at press conference: "Violence is a part of American culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the black people to be violent. We will use that violence to rid ourselves of oppression if necessary. We will be free by any means necessary."
Focus on the 60s - People
Cut to MS/CUs Rev. Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. speaking in Memphis, TN, April 3, 1968: "We've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point in Memphis. We've got to see it through." "We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter w/ me now, b/c I've been to the mountaintop. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life, longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over & I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight; I'm not worried about anything; I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord." (Color) TLSs urban buildings burning at night following assassination of Martin Luther King. Daytime aerial of city block on fire, firefighters on scene. MSs burning buildings. MSs National Guardsmen on the move in Washington, DC, one shot with the Capitol Building in BG. Cut to MS Senator ROBERT F. KENNEDY (RFK, Bobby Kennedy) speaking: "We do not yet know whether they are summons to battle or to the meeting of reconciliation & peace. That choice is largely up to us. This generation did not create most of the conditions & the convictions which have led us to this day, but this generation has a responsibility to resolve them." Cut to B&W MS African-American adults marching arm in arm at night, singing, "Go Tell It To the Mountain."