Kennedy Tour: Irish Acclaim Highlights Visit
Kennedy Tour: Irish Acclaim Highlights Visit
All of his cousins - whom he reckons by the dozens - welcome the return of a man they consider a native son. President Kennedy takes tea with the clan at a farmhouse where his great grandfather was born; he's made an honorary citizen of the 'Ancient Borough of Wexford'; he is a guest at a lawn party at President deValer's home. It was the biggest event in Ireland since the day of Independence! Ireland Looking down on a crowd made of guest and three long tables set up I believe with food. MS - President Kennedy accepting a cup of tea with his family clan. MS - Irish Police standing by a table. MS - Rear view of President Kennedy cutting a cake. MCUS - President Kennedy talking with a few of his cousins. LS - President Kennedy boarding a helicopter. MCUS - President Kennedy getting inside the helicopter waving farewell to the crowd. MS - People looking out the windows of their apartment building with a large banner hanging from its saying "Welcome Home Mr. President". MLS - News photographers taking pictures, and throngs of people gather to see President Kennedy. MS - Motorcade with President Kennedy standing up in a convertible waving and smiling to the Irish countrymen and women. Dublin, Ireland. President Kennedy attends a garden party in his honor. CUS - 1700 guest gather around President Kennedy giving him hardly any room to breath.