Joint resolution to allow the showing in the United States of the United States information Agency film ""John F. KennedyYears of Lightning, Day of Drums""
PL 89-274 (S.J.Res.106), enacted 10/20/1965

79 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 89-274_OCT. 20, 1965 
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a written request that it be furnished any document, paper, commu-
nication, audit, review, finding, recommendation, report, or other 
material in the custody or control of the Inspector General, Foreign 
Assistance, relating to any review, inspection, or audit arranged for, 
directed, or conducted by him, unless and until there has been fur-
nished to the General Accounting Office or to such committee or 
subcommittee, as the case may be, (A) the document, paper, com-
mimication, audit, review, finding, recommendation, report, or other 
material so requested or (B) a certification by the President, person-
ally, that he has forbidden the furnishing thereof pursuant to such 
request and his reason for so doing. 
This Act may be cited as the "Foreign Assistance and Related 
Agencies Appropriation Act, 1966." 
Approved October 20, 1965. 
Short title. 
Public Law 89-274 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To allow the showing in the United States of the T'nited States Information 
Agency tilm "John F. Kennedy—Years of Lightning, Day of Dnuns". 
October 20, 1965 
[S. J. Res. 106] 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Reiyresentdtiues of the Utilted 
States of America in Congress assemhled^ That it is the sense of the 
Congress that the people of the United States should not be denied 
an opportunity to view the film prepared by the United States Infor-
mation Agency entitled "Years of Lightning, Day of Drums", depict-
ing events in the administration of the late President John F. Kennedy. 
It is further the sense of Congress that the expression of congres-
sional intent embodied in this joint resolution is to be limited solely 
to the film referred to herein, and that nothing contained in this joint 
resolution should be construed to establish a precedent for making 
other materials prepared by the Ignited States Information Agency 
available for general distribution in the L'nited States. 
SEC. 2. Accordingly, the LTnited States Infonnation Agency is 
authorized to make appropriate arrangements to transfer to the 
trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts six 
master copies of such film and the exclusive rights to distribute copies 
thereof, through educational and commercial media,, foi' viewing 
within the United States. The net proceeds resulting from any sucli 
distribution shall be covered into the Treasury for the benefit of the 
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and shall be avail-
able, in addition to appropriations authorized in the John F. Kennedy 
Center Act, to the trustees of such Center foi^ use in carrying out the 
purposes of such Act. 
SEC. 3. In order to reimburse the Ignited States Government for its 
expenditures in connection with production of the film, such arrange-
ments shall provide for payment, at the time of delivery of the said 
master copies, for such rights in the amount of $122,000, which shall 
be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. 
SEC. 4. Any documentary film which has been, is now being, or is 
hereafter produced by any Government department or agency witli 
appropriations out of the Treasury concerning the life, character, and 
public service of any individual who has served oi* is serving the Gov-
ernment of the United States in any official capacity shall not be dis-
tributed or shown in public in this country during the lifetime of the 
said official or after the death of sudi official unless authorized by law 
in each specific case. 
Approved October 20, 1965. 
"John F. 
Kennedy-Years 
of Lightning, Day 
of Drums." 
Transfer and 
distribution 
of film. 
72 Stat. 
78 Stat, 4. 
1698; 
Future Govern-
ment-produced 
films. 
Restriction.