1.
GV AIRPORT
0.03

2.
SV SPECTATORS ON PAMP
0.06

3.
CU EDWARD KENNEDY PAN.. ALONG DIGNITARIES
0.19

4.
LV 'J.F.K.' SIGN UNVEILED
0.29

5.
SV EDWARD KENNEDY WITH SISTER (MRS SMITH) ALONGSIDE SIGN
0.32

6.
GV BIG WREATH OF WINDOW
0.36

7.
GTV CROWD
0.38

8.
SCU KENNEDY SPEAKS
0.46

9.
MV LISTENERS
0.49

10.
SCU KENNEDY CONCLUDES SPEECH
0.56

11.
MV KENNEDY SHAKES HANDS WITH DIGNITARIES
1.04

12.
LV & SLV MEN WORK ON NEW SIGN "JOHN F. KENNEDY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT"
1.20



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Background: NEW YORK'S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, KNOWN AS IDLEWILD, WAS RECHRISTENED THE JOHN F. KENNEDY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN A SOLEMN CEREMONY YESTERDAY (TUESDAY).

AMONG THOSE WHO ATTENDED WERE THE ASSASSINATED PRESIDENT'S BROTHER, SEN. EDWARD M. KENNEDY, OF MASSACHUSETTS AND HIS SISTER, MRS JEAN SMITH. THE CEREMONY INVOLVED THE UNVEILING OF THREE SYMBOLIC LETTERS. "J.F.K."
EDWARD KENNEDY, SPEAKING AFTER THE UNVEILING OF THE THREE LETTERS WHICH WILL GLOW FROM THE NEW SIGN FOR THE AIRPORT, TOLD THE ASSEMBLED GATHERING THAT THE DEDICATION WAS AN EVENT OF WHICH HIS LATE BROTHER WOULD HAVE BEEN PROUD, AND EXPRESSED THE APPRECIATION OF THE ENTIRE KENNEDY FAMILY TO THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

THE LETTERS WILL BE PART OF A NEW 242-FOOT SIGN TO BE SITUATED AT THE TOP OF THE INTERNATIONAL ARRIVALS BUILDING WHERE THE CEREMONY TOOK PLACE.

THE ILLUMINATED "J.F.K." WILL BE ONE OF THE FIRST SIGHTS TO BE SEEN BY VISITORS ARRIVING FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES.