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Go To Germany R2 Pt1 221099-05 | Footage Farm

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A Nation Welcomes President John F. Kennedy  [R2 Pt.1]
26Jun63  German Air Force aerobatic display - high shot Air Force One jet at US air base in Wiesbaden - Kennedy onto jet & takes off for flight to West Berlin.  Flags of US, Berlin & France.  Presidential jet arrives at Berlin-Tegel military airport - JFK off plane greeted by VIPs & welcome ceremony.
02:41:27  MCU Kennedy speech extract "we come to a city which we feel to be part of us".  West Berlin street scenes - crowds wait for Kennedy - motorcade through suburbs, Germans on bicycles following alongside - waving from balconies.  Motorcade through city - ticker-tape.  Tracking shot past building w/ windows bricked up - street sign Bernauer Strasse - woman walks dog next to Berlin Wall - women look at wreaths laid below bricked-up building - barbed wire fences & No Man's Land - top of Brandenburg Gate seen across barbed wire.  Brandenburg Gate hung w/ red banners & Communist placard wheeled in front - 'When will these pledges be fulfilled in West Germany and West Berlin, President Kennedy?'.  Guard next to sign 'Achtung! Sie verlassen jetzt West-Berlin'.  Motorcade turns onto 17th of June Street.  Communist camera crew sets up from across barriers.  Kennedy onto podium opposite Brandenburg Gate.  Motorcade leaves area past huge crowds.
02:45:49  Signpost Friedrichstrasse - pan down to Checkpoint Charlie - sign 'Allied Check Point' - JFK through crowd, looks across to West Berlin from viewing platform - more Communist propaganda billboards visible.  Convoy through West Berlin streets w/ motorcycle escort - more cheering crowds.  Monument to Berlin Airlift in front of Templehof Airport.  Ticker tape & balloons as motorcade moves slowly past - FBI agents alongside car.
02:48:50  High pan across square packed w/ 300,000 Berliners in front of Schoneburg city hall - crowds surging.  Adenauer speech from large podium decorated w/ flags & banners.
  Anti-Communism.  Diplomacy.  State Visits - US Presidents.  Federal Republic of Germany.  1960s.

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