President's Tribute Johnson Attends Governor Lehman's Funeral (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1963)

Description

The original release sheet reads: PRESIDENT'S TRIBUTE JOHNSON ATTENDS GOVERNOR LEHMAN'S FUNERAL President Lyndon Johnson arrives in New York amidst the most stringent security arrangements ever mounted for a visiting world figure. From the time he leaves the airport for the drive into Manhattan he is guarded by a phalanx of police. He is in New York for the funeral of Governor Herbert Lehman with whom he worked in Washington when Mr. Lehman was a senator. Mr. Johnson has become the most guarded president in history. JET CRASHES IN FIERY BALL A plane bound for Philadelphia from Puerto Rico falls during a storm near Elkton, Maryland. Eighty-one persons are killed in the crash that some experts attribute to a bolt of lightning. OUT OF THE JUNGLE BY CHRISTMAS The first of 1,000 GI's to be evacuated from the fighting in Vietnam leave Saigon for home. The movement is in line with reducing United States forces to 15,000 troops. These men do not ask why,-all they care about is being home for Christmas. SPORTS FOOTBALL NAVY 21 ARMY 15 Postponed by the assassination, the Army-Navy game draws 100,000 to Philadelphia. Before the game they pay a silent tribute to the martyred President Kennedy. The underdog Army team almost pulls an upset as they threaten the Navy goal-line in the last seconds of play...but the clock runs out but not before there is 60 minutes of bang-up, thrill-packed football.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library