On Sept. 8, 1971, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opened its doorways with a efficiency of Leonard Bernstein’s "Mass." Several members of the Kennedy household have been in attendance, together with celebrities and socialites like Gregory Peck and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Watch CBS News’ footage from the night.
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0:00 CBS News’ Bernard Kalb
0:24 Ethel Kennedy, RFK’s widow
0:42 Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA)
1:02 Robert McNamara, former protection secretary
1:40 Leonard Bernstein, conductor and composer
2:01 Rose Kennedy, JFK’s mom
4:18 Herbert G. Klein, Nixon’s communications director
4:37 Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter
4:52 Gregory Peck, actor
5:25 Montage of crowds
6:23 More of Rose Kennedy’s response to "Mass"
6:59 Curtain name
7:47 Ethel Kennedy
8:00 Sen. Ted Kennedy
8:30 Leonard Bernstein
8:41 Robert McNamara
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