- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of President John F. Kennedy requesting Congress to allocate funds for the space program, 1961 May 1
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
- Date of Original:
- 1961-05-01
- Subject:
- Outer space--Exploration
Astronautics and state--United States--History
Space race--History - People:
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
- Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this WSB-TV newsfilm clip from May 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy requests Congress to allocate funds for the space program. After greeting Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, Kennedy asks Congress for 531 million in fiscal year 1962 and an estimated 7 to 9 billion over the next five years.
Title supplied by cataloger. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn33348
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn33348
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/news/id:wsbn33348
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn33348/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn33348, WSB-TV newsfilm clip of President John F. Kennedy requesting Congress to allocate funds for the space program, 1 May 1961, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0743, 53:17/54:06, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 49 secs.): black-and-white, sound ; 16 mm.
- Original Collection:
- Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.
- Holding Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
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