# JOHN F KENNEDY in NASHVILLE A MAN PASSED OUR WAY 78824

“If there is one unchanging theme that runs throughout these separate stories, it is that everything changes but change itself. We live in an age of movement and change, both evolutionary and revolutionary, both good and evil--and in such an age a university has a special obligation to hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.” That statement, delivered by President John F. Kennedy on May 18, 1963, in Nashville at the 90th Anniversary Convocation of Vanderbilt University and the 30th anniversary of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), serve as the cold opening to this black-and-white film titled, “A Man Passed Our Way.” The film was made in 1964 on the one-year anniversary of his visit, while the nation was still mourning the assassination of the 35th president on November 22, 1963. Kennedy was the 14th President of the United States ever to visit Nashville, and at mark 01:06 , Air Force 1 is shown landing that Saturday morning at Berry Field to enthusiastic crowds. We see JFK shaking hands with supporters before joining an open, 15-car motorcade to downtown Nashville, passing an estimated 300,000 admirers who lined the route to Vanderbilt University, where a crowd of 33,000 waited for him at Dudley Field. “There was no indication that in just six months, while riding in a similar motorcade in Dallas, Texas, a sniper’s bullet would cut short a bright career,” the narrator acknowledged at mark 02:25 . The film flashes back to President…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/78824JFKAManPassedOurWay)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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