Project Detail

One Thousand Pictures: RFK's Last Journey

Synopsis

In the early afternoon of 8 June 1968, following a funeral mass in St Patrick's Cathedral, New York, the Kennedy family and their guests boarded a train at Penn Station to take the body of Robert F Kennedy, assassinated two days before, back to Washington to bury him next to his brother, John.

What had not been anticipated were the thousands of people who lined the route to pay their respects to the Senator and who were captured by the camera of Magnum photographer Paul Fusco, who was on the train.

One Thousand Pictures tells the story of that journey and of America at the time through some of the people who were there and in the pictures, which in turn provide an extraordinary portrait of 1960's America.

Details

Year
2010
Type of film
Shorts
Running time
39 mins
Format
HD
Director
Jennifer Stoddart
Producer
Jennifer Stoddart
Executive Producer
Robbie Allen, Dan Cogan, Sheila Nevins
Editor
Fiona MacDonald
Director of Photography
Sam Montague
Music
Simon Rogers

Production Status

Production Company

Lichen Films

12 Grange Terrace
Edinburgh
EH9 2LD
UK
Tel: +44 (0)131 554 0409
Mob: +44 (0)7905 275 696

Sales Company

Home Box Office

2500 Broadway
Ste 400
Santa Monica
CA 90404
USA
Tel: +1 310 382 3000

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