1963 DAVID BRINKLEY REPORT KENNEDY ADMINISTRATION’S “FOOD FOR PEACE“ PROGRAM LIMA, PERU XD12844

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This color film is a portion of David Brinkley’s Journal of Christmas from 1963. It profiles the United States’ “Food for Peace Program“ and its impact in the slums of Lima, Peru. The film follows a school boy named Mario who, along with other children in his school, receives food aid as part of the program. It features a few shots of Jack Smith, an American wheat farmer who helped inspire the program, and American musician Jim Symington at 9:27, speaking about the conditions in the shantytown. (Symington served as the Deputy Director of the Kennedy Administration’s Food For Peace program and, according to his bio, played his guitar and sang in barrio and countryside throughout Latin America.) The film traces the impact that proper nutrition, in the form of American rice and grain, has on children who are malnourished. The goal of the program is in part to persuade