J. F. K.
The United States Information Services have a ninety-minute documentary film about John Kennedy's Presidency. It has been shown so far in Luton and the House of Commons and there are hopes that it will secure general release. I hope it does. I hope that anyone who can will see it. I saw it myself in the week of the Churchill funeral at a time when I had already been nearer to tears more times in a few days than in most of my life put together. They came again. There is a shot of the coffin covered in flags with the crowds coming in to see. Then the picture fades to, I think, the Inauguration. For one unbearable moment it seems that Kennedy is there looking at his own coffin, yet it is only a suggestion and not excessive. There are shots too of Kennedy with his children and in Ireland. But above all and as with Churchill, it is the voice, the face and the wit. I would like to think a film distributor would take it. A risk perhaps, but not such a big one.
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