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Jun 8 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
View from Robert Kennedy’s funeral train, New York City to DC, today 1968: #Fusco
From Robert Kennedy’s funeral train, today 1968:
From RFK’s funeral train, today 1968:
From RFK’s funeral train, today 1968:

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Jun 9
Romanticized Midway Airport Chicago in “North by Northwest” (1959): Image
Other Hitchcock images of Chicago in “North by Northwest” could have been rendered by Edward Hopper: Image
Hitchcock’s view of Mount Rushmore in “North by Northwest” looks like a tourist’s late 1950s Kodachrome snapshot: Image
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Jun 9
A year after “North by Northwest” (1959) hit theaters, with Cary Grant at Ambassador East in Chicago, JFK (in September 1960) stayed at the same hotel and studied note cards on its roof to prepare for his first Presidential TV debate that night against Nixon. Image
In July 1960, a month after premiere of Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” Janet Leigh, whose starring role in the film was all too brief, appeared onstage at Democratic convention, Los Angeles, to support the just-nominated JFK: Image
Midway Airport Chicago
looms large in “North by Northwest.” In June 1959, 2 weeks before film’s premiere, JFK and Nixon coincidentally arrived there on same United plane. JFK carried novel “Advise and Consent,” which, in 1961, as President, he helped to be made into movie in DC: Image
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Jun 8
For extreme extra Trivia credit, would anyone like to tell us about the two Frank Lloyd Wright references in Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest” (1959)?
OK, Frank Lloyd Wright-“North by Northwest” reference #1:
Vandamm’s house near Mount Rushmore (never built) has a Wright-esque look.
The rapacious Wright had offered to design a special house for the film in exchange for a large cut of the profits, but Hitchcock had refused. Image
Wright-“North by Northwest” reference #2 is more obscure:
At the time of filming Plaza Hotel scenes, Frank Lloyd Wright was living upstairs and using the elevator in which Cary Grant as “Thornhill" is accosted by spies. (In real life, Grant had an apartment at the Plaza too.) Image
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Jun 4
Thirteen days before his death, “SRO for RFK” fundraiser at Los Angeles Sports Arena, with Mahalia Jackson, Sonny & Cher, The Byrds, Roosevelt Grier, May 24, 1968:
RFK onstage at “SRO for RFK,” with The Byrds, Sonny & Cher, Mahalia Jackson, May 24, 1968, Los Angeles:
Sonny & @cher campaigning for Robert Kennedy for President, 1968:
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Jun 1
At age eighteen, Princess Elizabeth watching British parachutists before D-Day 1944: #IWM
Sixteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth [right] and her family with Eleanor Roosevelt, Buckingham Palace, 1942, during World War II: #Beaton
Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral Castle in Scotland with Prince Philip and President Eisenhower, Princess Anne and Prince Charles, 1959: #AP
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May 20
Ex-President Truman displays his taste in summer shoes at 1956 Democratic convention: #Getty
Summer street shoes from Harry Truman's collection, Independence, Missouri: #NPS
One of Harry Truman’s ties:
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