FADE IN

               Credits run in counterpoint through a 7 to 10 minute sequence 
               of documentary images setting the tone of John F. Kennedy's 
               Presidency and the atmosphere of those tense times, 1960 
               through 1963.  An omniscient narrator's voice marches us 
               through in old time Pathe' newsreel fashion.

                                     VOICE
                         January, 1961 - President D