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The Jon Montgomery Collection - Life Stationed at Rhein-Main Air Base (1963-64)

Jon Montgomery

Silent | 1963-64

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U.S. Senators William Fulbright and John Sparkman arriving at the air base
The New Town Hall in Munich
Flag lowered to half-mast
German newspaper headline reporting the President’s death. Translation: “Kennedy Assassination: DEAD!”
Flag at half-mast on the Frankfurt Cathedral
Flag at half-mast on Rhein-Main Air Base
A local parade begins with children in costume and a marching band

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This home movie captures scenes of Jon Montgomery when he was stationed at Rhein-Main Air Base near Frankfurt, Germany in 1963-64. Among footage of landmarks and landscapes in Frankfurt, the base, and military check points are two notable scenes: one of U.S. Senators William Fulbright and John Sparkman arriving at the air base as representatives of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as tensions were mounting around the Berlin Wall, and another of the newspaper headline reporting the death of President John F. Kennedy in German. The cameraman held the newspaper up for the camera to document the historic event.