PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY VISITS HARVARD AND WATCHES HARVARD V. COLUMBIA FOOTBALL GAME 93455

This silent newsreel footage shows President John F. Kennedy visiting Harvard on October 19, 1963, for a Harvard-Columbia football game (the game ended in a 3-3 tie). During this final trip to Boston before his assassination, Kennedy also selected a site for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum near the Charles River. The film starts 00:00 with footage of the American Airlines hangar at Boston Logan Airport with distinguished guests and the presidential party disembarking from an airplane. Then, Air Force One arrives and the President is shown disembarking from Air Force One and being picked up in an open air presidential limousine. At 1:50, crowds gather along the president's route, and at 2:05 the Harvard vs. Columbia football game is shown, with the President in the crowd. At 2:40 the President leaves through the stands, and gets in a covered car to depart. At 3:08 a man with a sign reading "Walking for the Big Four for '64 Kennedy Dodd Dempsey ?" is seen standing next to a National Guardsman. At 3:21, JFK walks by St James Road at Sheraton Plaza, greeting members of the crowd. (This is St. James Avenue and Dartmouth Street in Copley Square.)