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America Mourns

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2036
Date Released
10 Jun 1968
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Australia on the Ball
  2. 2America Bound
  3. 3Palace from the Past
  4. 4Student Voice
  5. 5America Mourns

Story

Story No. within this Issue
5 / 5
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: America Mourns. DESCRIPTION: We want Bobby - the shouts of adulation in Los Angeles, soon to become cries of anger and disbelief. The assassination of Robert Kennedy - so soon after the murder of Martin Luther King - underlines the undercurrent of violence that is threatening the whole structure of American democracy. The death of Robert Kennedy raises immediate concern among the nation’s underprivileged. They’d lost one champion - in Dr King. Now they’ve lost another. This Los Angeles tragedy is a symptom of a sickness that all reasonable Americans can only abhor. And still, no firm legislation exists to restrict the ownership of firearms. SHOTLIST: Zoom in Robert Kennedy talking at Press Conference at Ambassador Hotel. MS interior Hotel as Robert Kennedy is shot. MS interior crowds in hotel after shooting (2 shots). CU still photograph of Kennedy after being shot (3 shots). MS crowds in hotel after shooting (various shots). CU photo of Assassin Sirhan Sirhan. MS crowds inside hotel after shooting. MS ambulance leaving hotel. MS LS ditto. CUs sequence showing display of firearms gathered in during firearm amnesty (Library Material). CU Dr Martin Luther King (Lib. Material). MS ditto during protest march. MS pan ditto. CU marchers’ feet. CU pan Martin Luther King past. MS a sequence of American protest against war in Vietnam. CUs Robert Kennedy interviewed during European tour (Lib. Material).
Keywords
Ethnic groups; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Mass media; Vehicles; Weapons; Social conditions; Death; Demonstrations; Crime; Religion and belief; Assassinations
Locations
United States of America
Footage sources
United States of America
Library
Card file number
93620
Credits:
Commentator
Douglas Cameron
Length of story (in feet)
224
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