Dukakis 1988 - NYC Bridge - Lee Atwater

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I told my Christian brothers and sisters Oh They were crazy I'm not sure if this is the truth, but...

you're basically the hottest woman in the process.

Can you tell me where you are? Very interesting.

Are you living, Du Bois? Are you registered to vote? Okay, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's going to be okay.

Um, you may go down to...

Endless snapshots? Oh, I've already been photographed like a thousand times in the last hour by people from all over the world.

And you're still yourself? I'm still myself.

They haven't ripped off your essence or nothing.

Captured my soul.

I put this together for...

All of these styles to catch on to it.

That's going to be the occasion.

Ow! Let go! Jason, what? No! Jason, what? No! Jason, what? I'm all right.

I want to take a picture.

I want to take a picture.

Dance all the way down.

The most important thing to me about this event was the thermal touch.

It combined kerosene and oxygen to reach a temperature of more than 4 ,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

This great heat...

and a generous introduction.

So much support.

I need someone...

in high places...

who's neither hungry nor afraid...

to argue their case.

Is he in that helicopter? No, no, no.

Oh, my God! They're here to whip us back.

We're back up! We're back up! Jason, what? Off the port side or left side, you can see the beach.

The beach has a snack bar, picnic tables, beach house facilities, and plenty of white sand.

For those interested in more than swimming, the water is 10 ,000 feet of water...

This heat is killing me.

Everybody's like fading from the view.

Yay, D .A.! I think I'm going to get on the track.

You hear me? Can we get on TV? 68 and 88! 68 and 88! 68 and 88! 68 and 88! 68 and 88! Where are we going? Spoke time! Now, let's go to the concert! Concert! Concert! I feel like I just did an alien ride last week.

I can't remember.

Where's the clip? Hey, what's up? There's a...

I left a six -state card in here for a fanub SR!!!!!!!!!!!! My friends, Leonardo da Vinci failed to make a flying machine, but that didn't hold the feet of the right brothers on the ground.

The big man, where is it? Okay.

Are you going to the army anyway? The man that did not become wild until the immigrants came upon our shores, killing everything in their sight.

And that war continues today.

The historical and geological background of this unique natural wonder and the masterpiece Okay, okay, okay, okay.

Oh, please, we sell pictures.

We make our living doing this.

Okay? Four dollars.

Do you want me to pay four dollars? I just got picked up.

You're on the job.

You get up and left and become better at things.

How probably? Hi.

I want our products to be used as a catalyst to help people.

I'm just gonna blow our socks off.

Villanova! Come on! Come on, keep going! Come on, get going! Come on! Come on! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! And we'll go wild, wild, wild! We're gonna go wild, wild, wild! If it had to be for these cats, the Rolling Stones, Ronnie Woods, Mick, and the rest of the group, Keith and all of them, They kept both of these names alive all around the globe.

They recorded a lot of my tunes and they did a hell of a lot.

Unless she is engaged in high moral principle, we as a people have such a purpose today.

It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

Everybody go in this direction.

Show you how to use that thing.

That's what you do.

Take out a fork.

I can't believe you got it through my eating bloody man.

I'm just telling you, it's just like man and place.

Hey, you need to light it.

That's the thought that takes the bold to fart.

Get out of the way.

Is that it? It's pretty close.

Ten blue tees right beside the front deck.

Go ahead and change that up to the same position.

Yeah, same thing.

Now, from here, go ahead and go on down to the separate position you went right down over here along this side.

Identifier

F.2005-08-0315

Date Of Production

circa 1988 – 1989

Abstract

Loosely assembled footage includes the following: A man wearing a tropical shirt and a red, “JESUS” ballcap waves his hands and whistles toward the sky as New Orleans’ Superdome can be seen in the background; Vice President George H.W. Bush greets supporters at a rally on New Orleans’ Mississippi Riverwalk just after arriving via the Steamboat Natchez on August 16, 1988; Governor Michael Dukakis departs from a campaign event held at Drake University’s Olmsted Center in Des Moines; Phone bank volunteers engage in telephone calls; A boat tour travels along what is likely the Chattahoochee River; A group tours the top of Stone Mountain via a cable car; Crowds gather to hear Reverend Jesse Jackson speak; Activists gather near the state capitol in downtown Atlanta to protest the war on drugs, capitalism, and the Ku Klux Klan during the 1988 Democratic National Convention; Picketing signs representing mostly Nationalist Movement messages lay abandoned on the sidewalk; Several shots depict the Atlanta from the Ashes Monument; Activists hold an “AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT” banner that compares 1968 to 1988; A board presents precinct reporting percentages for Democratic presidential candidates; Dukakis supporters gather in downtown Atlanta during an evening parade, likely to celebrate his nomination on July 21, 1988; Tourists pose for photographs in front of the White House and with a replica of the Liberty Bell; The whistling man pictured in the beginning of the film wears a red “JESUS GEORGE” ballcap and points to the sky while standing next to the General Casimir Pulaski statue in Washington, D.C.; President George H.W. Bush and his campaign manager Lee Atwater play guitars during the Presidential Inauguration’s “Celebration for Young Americans” concert at the Washington Convention Center on January 21, 1989.

Format

Super 8

Extent

500 feet

Color

Color

Sound

Mag Stripe

Reel/Tape Number

1/1

Has Been Digitized?

Yes

Language Of Materials

English

Element

Reversal Positives

Subject

Concerts
Demonstrations
Landmarks
Mountains
Political Activists
Political campaigns
Political conventions
Politicians
Presidential inaugurations
Presidents
Tourism

Preservation Sponsor

Related Collections

Subseries II: Footage

Related Places

North America ➜ United States ➜ Georgia ➜ Atlanta

North America ➜ United States ➜ Louisiana ➜ New Orleans

North America ➜ United States ➜ District of Columbia ➜ Washington DC

North America ➜ United States ➜ Iowa ➜ Des Moines

Main Credits

Stamets, Bill (is filmmaker)

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