Final Honors for Pope John (Universal Newsreel, Jun 1963)

Description

The original release sheet reads: FINAL HONORS FOR POPE JOHN With all of the solemn homage that can be paid by mortal man a great figure is carried to rest. Tens of thousands jam St. Peter's Square as the body of Pope John XXIII is borne from the papal apartments to the great basilica to lay in state. His face appears serene and peaceful, showing little of the ordeal that marked his last four days of life. Rarely in history has a man been so mourned by all races, by all sects. The tears and the murmured prayers are like the sound of a vast sea as the body is carried into the basilica to rest on the main altar. A million people pass by the catafalque within two days. Here, in truth, passes greatness. THE BIG DAY: 1,868 OFFICERS ARE GRADUATED The Air Force, Naval and Military Acadamies graduate their new officers. At the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, President Kennedy calls for the partnership of government and business in developing a supersonic passenger plane to hold the U.S. lead in commercial aviation. Across the country at Annapolis the Navy Academy graduates receive their diplomas from Vice-President Lyndon Johnson who asks them to remember that America did not "Stive for peace because we are weak, but rather because we are strong." Graduation day at West Point recalls the first dark weeks of World War II. Commissioned is Colin Kelly, III, son of Uncle Sam's first national hero who was killed in the sinking of a Japanese Battleship. President Roosevelt requested whoever would be president when he grew up to appoint him to the military academy. In 1963 the sequal to a story begun in 1941.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library