Impact of Assassins

Year Published: 1960

Creator: Pictura Films Distribution Corporation

Complete Record: The Turning points: America in the 20th Century. Announcement of death of John F. Kennedy. Leaders sit around table and offer condolences to Mrs. Kennedy. Footage of group of leaders, voiceover denouncing assassinations. Interviewer questions man about Marxism, Communism. Man speaks about socialism, etc. Voiceover discusses Kennedy election. Text: “Protest Assassins.” History of assassinations; discussion of President McKinley. Footage of shooting of McKinley, funeral in Ohio. Voiceover discussing assassin; discussion of Garfield, Lincoln assassinations. Mention of Teddy Roosevelt, attempted assassination of Roosevelt by John Shrink of Milwaukee. Franklin Roosevelt attempted assassination: while on vacation with Chicago mayor Anton Ceramic Guiseppe Zangara attempts to kill Roosevelt in Miami in 1933, and shoots Cermak instead. Footage of shooter Guiseppe Zangara. Footage of Cermak funeral. Roosevelt visits Chicago. Cermak’s last words to Roosevelt: “I’m glad it was me instead of you.” Revolt in Puerto Rico. President Harry S. Truman walks to work. Assassination attempt by two Puerto Rican nationalists in front of Blair House in Washington DC. Guards shoot back. Two guards wounded, one died. One Puerto Rican dies. Interview with journalists, guards. Footage of JFK, Jaqueline Kennedy in Texas. November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Motorcade footage of Dallas procession. Shot at 12:30 P.M. by Lee Harvey Oswald. Footage of Texas School Book Depository. Footage of shotgun allegedly used. Footage of interview with police officers. Lee Oswald arrest. Footage of arraignment. Footage of Oswald assassination by Jack Ruby. Voiceover declaring assassins are outside the law.