This untitled newsreel-style film from the late 1960s chronicles the great achievements and hardships faced during the presidential term of America’s 35th President John F. Kennedy. More specifically, the film presents the policies and programs that made up JFK’s political agenda known as the “New Frontier” and the myriad of legislative proposals he pushed to realize this goal. Among these programs that made up the New Frontier agenda and ushered in the Eras of the New Frontier and Great Society in America was the founding and launch of the Peace Corps program to address global poverty and starvation, work to reverse prejudice and segregation and promote civil rights, as well as the development of the US Space Program. Woven within these scenes as well is discussion of JFK’s assassination in the third year of his presidential term and the impact it had on the American people.

View of earth from outer space, voice over narration begins (0:09). Protests in Washington D.C. outside the gates of the Whitehouse hold signs urging against missile bases in Cuba (0:33). Side-by-side portraits of John F. Kennedy – various State of the Union addresses and presidential speeches (0:46). Secluded village in Europe (2:52). Street busy with pedestrians in Europe (2:58). United Nations General Assembly (3:14). Alabama street corner featuring food truck for Zeigler’s Coneys (3:16). West Berlin (3:20). Villagers in Tanganyika (3:24). Space launch dock at Cape Canaveral (3:27). Halls of Congress (3:29). Outdoor street market in China (3:39). Huts in a rural secluded village (4:03). Doctor providing medicine in a village in South America (4:22). Press conference at the Rose Conference of the White House with the first Peace Corps volunteers (4:49). View of Tanganyika (present day Tanzania) from an airplane window (6:07). Scenes of Peace Corps volunteers working alongside locals (6:35). Goal of the Peace Corps volunteers explained (7:49). Alliance for progress expanding in Latin America (8:10-9:32). Welcome parade for JFK in Costa Rica (9:39). JFK delivers a speech (11:17). JFK’s funeral, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in attendance (13:46). Funeral procession down the streets of Washington D.C. (15:41). Various scenes from across America while narration discuss Civil Rights in the United States beginning with President Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War (18:14). Shot from the streets of Harlem, New York City with the Apollo Theater in the background (19:19). The story of the Little Rock Nine and the following Little Rock Crisis where President Eisenhower sent American troops to assist with the process of desegregating Little Rock Central High School (19:27). Montage of signs indicating segregation between races in the United States (20:17). Segment about James Meredith and the process of desegregating the University of Mississippi (20:29). Excerpt from JFK’s Address on Civil Rights (20:45-21:43). Clips of the Freedom Riders as they ride interstate buses into the segregated south to places like Birmingham, Alabama, Jackson, Mississippi, or Fayetteville, Louisiana (21:47). March on Washington (23:07). Demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool (24:36). Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Caroline Kennedy, and JFK Jr. attend JFK’s state funeral where his casket was displayed in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building (25:17). Space rocket launch site – examples of launch failures during the early days of the Space Age (27:48). Voice over begins with an excerpt of JFK’s Moon Speech at Rice University (28:49). JFK views successful rocket launch from aircraft carrier ship (28:55). Spacecraft in docking station at Cape Canaveral (29:40). JFK and Lyndon B. Johnson watch the first manned rocket launch of Alan

Shepard from the White House (29:49). (30:19). Alan Shepard medal presentation where JFK awards Shepard NASA’s distinguished service medal (30:34). Engineers working on a space rocket (32:27). John Glenn and the capsule Friendship 7 (32:50). Continuation of JFK’s moon speech as voice over (33:09). Rocket launch at Cape Canaveral (34:09).