President Kennedy In Europe

At his press conference, President Kennedy outliens the West's reply to Khrushchev's threats to sign a peace treaty with East Germany. He calls on the Soviet Government to reconsider its course and to work with its World War II allies in concluding a just and enduring settlement of the issues remaining from that conflict.

President Kennedy makes the formal dedication of Chicago's O'Hare Airport, already known as the world's busiest terminal. Later he arrives down town at a Civic luncheon at which he urges public support of his 10.3 billion dollar tax cut.

In the midst of a cheering crowd as he rides through down town Dallas, President John F. Kennedy falls before an assassin's bullets fired form a warehouse along the route of the motorcade. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th President of the United States. The youngest man ever elected President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a best-selling author at 23, a war hero at 26, a U.S. Representative at 29, a Senator at 35. Scion of one of the nation's wealthiest families, he avoided the life of ease to dedicate himself to public service. A feeling of shocked disbelief sweeps over the nation as the news spreads that the 46-year-old President has been murdered. Men and women weep unashamedly in the streets. Bells toll and flags are lowered to half-mast in sorrowful tribute to the fourth President of the United States to lose his life to an assassin.

Twenty-one films are vying for Golden Bear glory at the Berlin Film Festival this year. The German capital is flooded with celebrities touting their latest features, including Britain's Mike Leigh, Johnnie To of Hong Kong and US director Paul Thomas Anderson. Images and soundbites from opening night on Thursday, including the arrival of the Rolling Stones, jury member Diane Kruger and rocker Patti Smith. Images and soundbites.

Clint Eastwood, Steven Soderbergh and the other headliners of world cinema take to the red carpet in Cannes this week for a 12-day film extravaganza. Twenty-two movies are in the running for the coveted Palme d'Or prize. A look ahead at the event.

Nineteen Sixty-Three is a golden year in sports. Baseball enjoys a gala season from opening day when President Kennedy throws out the first ball (26:01) In the 1963 World Series, Sandy Koufax stars as he fans 15 batters in the first game. The Dodgers win in four straight games and it is Koufax again, in the last game, who reduces the mighty Yankee bat to tooth-picks (26:14) In golf, Jack Nicklaus wins the Masters Crown to fulfil the promise he made the previous year when winning the Open (27:30)

President Eisenhower is greeted at the airport by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on his arrival at the West German capital on the first leg of a European tour prior to a meeting with Soviet chief Khrushchev. Acknowledging a tumultuous acclaim from a crowd of 315.000, Ike assures them that the United States will stand by the free people of West Germany.

Red paints a barn with a carpet roll on a forklift.

The final act in the tragedy of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States is one of the most memorable in history. Kings, Queens, Presidents, Premiers, Princes and Princesses, Emperors and Dictators - they come from the far corners of the earth to pay tribute to the man who had served the world while he served the nation. From the moment his casket is borne from the White House to lie in state at the Capitol it is a drama filled with high emotion. All trough the night, people file past the bier, some standing in a 10-mile-long line as much as 12 hours. Then the cortege winds from the Capitol to Saint Matthew's Cathedral for a Pontifical Funeral Mass while Mrs. Kennedy walks behind the caisson drawn by six white horses. After the religious rites the cortege proceeds to Arlington National Cemetery where the martyred President will rest. At the end of the solemn graveside honors, Mrs. Kennedy lights the flame that will burn in his memory.