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FILM TITLED "BOBBY KENNEDY: IN HIS OWN WORDS," BROADCAST AS A TRIBUTE TO ROBERT F KENNEDY ON HIS 65TH BIRTHDAY. FILM CONTAINS NO ASSASSINATION FTG. 19:59:34 EXTRANEOUS GRAPHICS. 20:00:02 WLIW SLATE. CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING SLATE. GRAPHICS. 20:00:57 MUSIC OVER B&W FTG OF ATTORNEY GENERAL ROBERT KENNEDY AT THE 1964 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION IN ATLANTIC CITY. 20:02:33 SB OF BOBBY KENNEDY. 20:03:40 MUSIC OVER HOME BOX OFFICE AND TITLE GRAPHICS. 20:03:57 SOT OF BOBBY KENNEDY. FTG OF BOBBY KENNEDY AND HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS. B&W FTG W/ BROTHER JOHN ON THE DAY OF JOHN'S ELECTION TO THE SENATE IN 1952. FTG OF BOBBY'S WEDDING TO ETHEL IN 1950 AND W/ HIS CHILDREN. B&W FTG OF KENNEDY ON THE MCCARTHY SUBCOMMITTEE IN 1953. FTG OF KENNEDY W/ HIS PARENTS AND SIBLINGS. B&W FTG OF BOBBY W/ JOHN DURING THE LABOR RACKETS INVESTIGATION IN 1956 AND TEAMSTERS UNION PRESIDENT JIMMY HOFFA. FTG OF JOHN, BOBBY, VARIOUS KIDS AND ETHEL KENNEDY. 20:10:25 FTG OF JOHN F KENNEDY ANNOUNCING HIS CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1960, BOBBY W/ JOHN AT THE 1960 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION, STILL SHOTS OF BOBBY CAMPAIGNING FOR JOHN, FTG OF JOHN AND BOBBY ON ELECTION DAY IN 1960, JOHN ANNOUNCING APPOINTMENT OF BOBBY AS ATTORNEY GENERAL IN DECEMBER 1960, BOBBY ON THE PRESIDENT'S INAUGURATION DAY AND AT CABINET SWEARING-IN CEREMONY IN JANUARY 1961, STILL SHOTS OF BOBBY W/ PRESIDENT KENNEDY. 20:14:50 FTG OF THE FREEDOM RIDERS IN MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA GOVERNOR GEORGE WALLACE, REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., BOBBY KENNEDY WORKING IN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, THE CRISIS IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, STILL SHOTS OF BOBBY AND PRESIDENT KENNEDY, FTG OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY SPEAKING TO THE NATION DURING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS ON OCTOBER 22, 1962, THE PRESIDENT MEETING W/ SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER ANDREI GROMYKO, BOBBY VISITING WEST BERLIN IN 1962 AND MEETING WEST BERLIN MAYOR WILLY BRANDT. 20:20:31 FAMOUS FTG OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND BOBBY ARRIVING BY HELICOPTER AND THEIR CHILDREN RUNNING UP TO GREET THEM IN HYANNISPORT, MASSACHUSETTS IN 1963. 20:21:11 INFAMOUS B&W FTG OF THE PRESIDENT AND JACKIE ARRIVING IN DALLAS, TEXAS ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963. STILL SHOTS OF JACKIE W/ LYNDON JOHNSON BEING SWORN IN A PRESIDENT, ROSE, BOBBY AND JACQUELINE KENNEDY AT THE PRESIDENT'S FUNERAL. FTG OF BOBBY W/ PRESIDENT JOHNSON. STILL SHOTS OF BOBBY. 20:22:50 FTG OF BOBBY ANNOUNCING HIS CANDIDACY FOR SENATOR FROM NEW YORK IN 1964, CAMPAIGNING, FILMING TELEVISION CAMPAIGN ADS, BEING INTRODUCED BY HIS MOTHER ROSE, INTRODUCING SEVERAL OF HIS CHILDREN AND HIS WIFE ETHEL, ON ELECTION DAY NOVEMBER 3, 1964, AT THE SENATE SWEARING-IN CEREMONY IN JANUARY 1965, W/ BROTHER TEDDY. 20:30:26 B&W FTG OF BOBBY CLIMBING MT KENNEDY IN THE YUKON TERRITORY IN 1965. 20:32:15 FTG OF BOBBY AND ETHEL FOLLOWING THE BIRTH OF THEIR 9TH CHILD IN 1965, BOBBY PLAYING TOUCH FOOTBALL W/ HIS CHILDREN AT HICKORY HILL IN VIRGINIA, VISITING POOR BLACK CHILDREN. 20:34:27 FTG OF SENATOR KENNEDY IN SOUTH AFRICA IN 1966, VIETNAM WAR PROTESTORS IN WASHINGTON, DC, SOLDIERS IN VIETNAM, PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND SENATOR KENNEDY, SENATOR EUGENE MCCARTHY CAMPAIGNING DURING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY IN 1968, CBS NEWS ANCHOR WALTER CRONKITE AND REPORTER DAN RATHER. 20:38:46 FTG OF SENATOR KENNEDY ANNOUNCING HIS CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1968, THE VIETNAM WAR IN 1968, PRESIDENT JOHNSON ANNOUNCING THAT HE WOULD NOT SEEK THE NOMINATION FOR A 2ND TERM AS PRESIDENT IN 1968. 20:40:40 FTG OF BOBBY SPEAKING ABOUT THE MURDER OF MARTIN LUTHER KING IN 1968, RIDING CAMPAIGN TRAIN IN 1968, CAMPAIGNING, CRONKITE AND CBS NEWS REPORTER MIKE WALLACE ANNOUNCING PRIMARY WINS BY KENNEDY, ROGER MUDD REPORTING, KENNEDY CAMPAIGNING IN LOS ANGELES IN 1968, AT THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL ON JUNE 4, 1968, REPORTER ANNOUNCING THE SHOOTING OF KENNEDY ON JUNE 5, 1968, RFK PRESS SECRETARY FRANK MANKIEWICZ ANNOUNCING THE DEATH OF SENATOR KENNEDY ON JUNE 6, 1968. 20:47:53 FTG OF THE FUNERAL OF ROBERT F KENNEDY AT SAINT PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL IN NEW YORK CITY, TRAIN CARRYING HIS BODY TO ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY IN VIRGINIA. 20:50:19 MONTAGE OF VARIOUS SHOTS OF BOBBY KENNEDY. 20:51:13 CREDITS. CPB SLATE. GRAPHICS. PBS SLATE. 20:52:59 EXTRANEOUS FTG.