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We paid to send them home. Only weeks later, we followed the

Romanian beggars as they target London again. We do not have work,

we do not have anything. They give us food. I would like more money for

my children. 50 years after his assassination, we reveal the untold

story of JFK 's final visit to the UK. Here is John F. Kennedy, and to

heaven of course, but his last visit to Europe and he will be

assassinated a few months later. to Europe and he will be

assassinated a few months later. How the iconic Ace Cafe has survived

against all odds. We all had classic car nights but it seemed to me, the

story of this place, is escape. London welcomes most of its visitors

with open arms but not, it would seem, the beggars and rough sleepers

at marble arch. In July, the government spent millions putting

them back on that now, many are heading back here. We travelled to

Romania to meet some of these people to find out why sleeping rough in

London is a better option for them and staying at home.

This is Oxford Street on a weekday afternoon. Police are arresting a

beggar. This is outside a shop on Park Lane, as Westminster Council 's

rough sleeping teen wake people up. You are going to need to move all of

your stuff here. They don't like it, or are a camera, but the authorities

insist it is an issue which has to be sorted out urgently. Here,

council workers clean a pavement which was used as a toilet. All this

despite a new tactic which the police and border agency tried out

in July. A rude awakening and the offer of a free flight or coach trip

home. 40 people decided to take up this offer but has the tactic

worked? Before they left London, we filmed several people who took up

this option to go home. This family, this man and his mother. Sonia and

her mother. Also, this lady, sleeping here on the park in central

reservation. So, will a stay at home or return? To find out, we followed

them to Romania. We are on the road to a rumour immunity outside a town

about 100 miles from Bucharest. We are welcomed by children from our

first London family. This man cannot wait to show was the poverty that

drives as to London. In this room, my mother and father sleep. 15 sleep

here in just three runs. We do not have water or a bathroom or even

electricity. All I want is for you to help me with a place to work.

Take me to London. All I have is ?40 in benefits for my children. We were

told there was little food in the house and they were often going

hungry. It was ten times better being in London. I used to work jobs

for ?10 and I send it home. Have mercy, people of England, take me

and my children so they can live in a better world. A few miles away, on

the outskirts of the same town, we caught up with the other family.

the outskirts of the same town, we caught up with the other family The

lady told us she had already tried to come back to London but was

stopped and turned back at UK border on the French side of the English

Channel. Right there at the customs, I will try again of course.

We are dying of hunger here. Have a look inside, have a look at! Don't

have much, we don't have anything here. Her daughter, who has six

children, told us that even though her mother had been stopped on the

UK border, she had to try herself to get back to London. With all my

heart, I would like to go there in two weeks time and I don't want to

be sent back home. We don't have work, we haven't got anything. They

give us food there. I would like more money for my children. How many

runners from this one town may have made the trip to London? This man

thought he knew. He told us 50 people had left for London and 0

people had left for London and 20 had since come back home. Some of

them have already gone back to London. But we also saw in this

community were Brett certificates are showing some children had been

born in London. Their parents hope this could mean a new life for them.

This is her, born in London. If we can't it in there and educate them,

they could become English. In fact, a British certificate offered no

future advantage in an application for citizenship. The birth may have

cost the NHS some money but no records are kept about how many Roma

babies may have been born in London. In another rumour community,

hundreds of miles away, right on the edge of Europe on the border with

Moldova, we met up again with our third London family. The man told us

how he had been making money out of the contents of London 's dustbins.

I get 50 Romanian lei for this. He told us all that includes in his

front room had come from London and when sold in his local market, made

all the difference to his family. It means food for the kids, clothes for

school. I put three or four bikes on the bus and when the bus arrives

here, they dropped the bus `` they dropped the bag of. I made almost

?800. That was just in six weeks, which means he made more money

selling old clothes he found in London and his Romanian hospital

doctor. Here in Rumania, we are earning somewhere around ?75 a

week, compared to London where you can earn around ?1500 a week. It is

perhaps no surprise that this man is now applying for a job with the NHS

in the UK. I can buy a house and this is the most important thing for

me, that I can offer my daughter better life. It seems at the top and

the very bottom of Romanian society, the reason for coming to

London is the same. When we visited his home, this man told us he was

adamant, his family now could not cope without a lifeline provided by

his trips to London to find old clothes to sell. He had no choice

but to come back. I don't have anything to live with. What do I

give them to eat? Do you want me to stay? Next week I am going back and

if they kick me back, what will I do? If you weeks later, just as he

told us, he was back in marble arch. His bus fare back to London had cost

him ?100. Was there a problem at the border? Initially, they said we were

sent back by plane and we should not have come back. Then they saw I had

no problems with the police so they let us in. Then it was back to

business, finding the old clothes to send back home. We go on. If the

authorities were hoping that last summer 's raid on marble arch and

partly and had sold this issue, they were wrong. Little, it seems, has

changed. Still to come: Yellow Mac imagine watching one of those old

wild West films, that is what the Ace Cafe was all about. The most

action was if the mods got to close on their scooters. They put one in

the canal. Next month is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of

John F. Kennedy. Sparking fresh interest in the life and death of

this remarkable man. We have been given exclusive access to police

files which shed light on JFK's last visit to England, just weeks before

he was gunned down in Dallas. President Jack Canady is an hour

late arriving at Gatwick airport... June 1963 and the world was a

precarious place. It was the height of the Cold War. The USA and soviet

union facing each other in a nuclear arms race. It was in this tense

atmosphere that President John F. Kennedy flew into Gatwick for talks

with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's `` talks at Prime

Minister Harold Macmillan's country estate. Here is John F. Kennedy.

Unknown to him of course, but his last visit to Britain and Europe. He

would be assassinated months later. Former Prime Minister Gordon

Brown's admiration for JFK's elliptical legacy resulted in him

becoming a close friend of the Kennedy family. He has given this

speech in Berlin which many remember as one of the significant moments of

the Cold War, defying the Soviet union. He goes to Ireland and then

comes to see his old friend Harold Macmillan. With the help of this

Brighton historian, we have found the original police files detailing

JFK's visit to Sussex in the summer of 1963. There were three jets.

There were two American helicopters. There were two presidential cars

alone. 100 members of the press. There were two presidential cars

alone. 100 members of the press The alone. 100 members of the press The

two largest hotels were completely booked out. Every hotel within

Sussex seems to have been booked up. It was absolutely enormous. News JFK

was attending Mass in a tidy Sussex village brought out hundreds of

local onlookers. The vehicle they used was the one that Kennedy used

later in December in dollars. Half a century on, we have located someone

who was behind those closed doors at the Grove. I was 20. My grandfather

and I workplace. Most Sundays we would go for long walks through the

woods together and he would discuss politics. So I was fully aware and I

had been through the Cuban missile crisis with my grandfather. The Earl

of Stockton, Harold Macmillan's Brunton, lived at Birchgrove and

witnessed the comings and goings of the summit of 1963. I had met him

three times before so this visit was to be both a planning session and a

celebration. In these times, politicians did not meet like they

do now in summit like the G8 and G20. They had to steal this time

from other things because there were no formal summits. They had to

create these events themselves. The fact that he stayed at the house of

her Harold Macmillan shows a personal dimension to this. Wherever

President Kennedy went, he was surrounded by a security bubble. In

charge of the Secret Service operation for the Sussex summit was

this man. This photo shows him with Jackie Kennedy on a trip to India.

His name is David Grant. But could we trace Mr Grant 50 years on? Luck,

it seems, was on our side. We have managed to find out that former

Secret Service agent David Grant is still very much alive, and living

just outside Washington, DC. One of the things I remember about him was

his humility. He was not impressed with himself, really. He was

impressed a lot by people around him. He was a heck of a guy. So what

was your role in setting up the Sussex summit of 1963? I was

assigned to go there and represent the president and the White House to

do preliminary advance work for a further visit to Birchgrove house in

a meeting with Prime Minister Macmillan. I remember Brighton,

where we stayed, and I remember Birchgrove. Very good memories.

Yellow Mac `` he said Tom I guess I will be seeing you all in Washington

soon. Almost his last words to Harold were, we must do this again,

and soon. But unknown to both men, the Sussex summit was to be the last

time they would meet. Two or three months later, Macmillan is leaving

office. After that, Kennedy is assassinated. He is his last visit

to Europe and Britain. At 12:30pm on November the 22nd, 1963, three

gunshots ring out from a sixth floor window of a schoolbook depository

overlooking the presidential motorcade. The first reports are

confusing. A message came over on the portable radio equipment I had

that he had been hit, not shot, hit. Within seconds, the presidential

limousine is accelerating away to the nearest hospital. I went to the

hospital. Mrs Kennedy was obviously very upset. That was when I first

found out he had been mortally wounded. Even though I was only 12

at the time, I can remember vividly being in a room with my mother. My

father and brothers were out. And then the television broadcast the

news of the shooting. It then appeared to go back to normal

programmes, and then the news came of the death. You were so aware and

I remember thinking at the time this was a blow against democracy, that

it was a shooting that would change the way people saw the world. Just

as he had been in charge of the advance security for the Sussex

visit, David Grant had also arranged the security for Dallas. On that

fateful visit, why didn't you have the bubble top on the car? The

president's staff wanted to offer exposure. You cannot argue with it

unless you have a good argument. unless you have a good argument

Events unfolded swiftly, while David can be seen here loading be

president's body on a flight to Washington. Across time, he's

killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, had fled the depository, taking refuge in a

cinema. Recognised by a local police officer, Oswald shot him dead. He

tried to escape but was overpowered and arrested. David caught up with

the Harvey Oswald at the dollars headquarters. Arrogant, a sneer on

his face. As far as whether he admitted anything or admitted

anything, he was asked, why did you shoot the President? And he just

shook his head. He said nothing have to mark he said nothing. `` he said

nothing. When told of Kennedy's death, Harold Macmillan, who had

just resigned due to ill health, just resigned due to ill health

made this entry in his diary. Alas, I was never to see my friend again

before those leaves had turned and fallen. He was snatched by an

assassin's budget. In today's tough economic

conditions, the shutters are sadly going down forever on London is a

smack shops and cafes but there is one cafe that is 75 years old and is

about to export its brand to China. `` shutters going down forever on

London's shops and cafes. It is proud to live in a rock 'n'

roll past when cars and bikes were not thought of as looters but

admired for their beauty. `` polluters. Every day and night,

petrol heads congregate here to eat and drink but also to show off their

much loved bikes, cars and scooters and that is because this is the ones

infamous Ace Cafe. I just love coming down here. Seeing all the

bikes. I come down here to get away from the kids in the morning X back

`` in the morning! It is to come down here and have a bite to eat.

The cafe first opened in 1938 and rose to notoriety in the 1950s and

1960s. But its fortunes declined and in 1969, it closed and became a tile

warehouse. But 12 years ago, we made a film there about an ex mounted

policeman with a very large room who was also a biker. He set out on a

rather risky venture. I sat there reflecting on things that used to

occur. I then organised a reunion in 1994. That was a huge success, with

thousands attending. In these past humans, we have managed to open the

whole place once again, seven days a week. `` in the past few months We

week. `` in the past few months. We have a huge history broadly wrapped

up in this place and I want people to see this as the amazing cafe

restaurant in Britain was again and draw on those routes and historic

things that I feel part of my life, the motorbikes, rock 'n' roll,

scooters, heads and music. Market's cream heart back to the early 1 60s,

cream heart back to the early 1960s, where leather meant bikes and malts

post to be chased from the place. `` mods were to be chased from the

place. People often say to me, what was it really liked down here? I

say, imagine watching one of those wild West films where just before

they moved into town and cleaned it up, that is exactly what the Ace

Cafe was like. The closest to action was if the mods got to close on the

scooters. I've heard they did what one in the canal, not the guy on the

scooter. Reputation can be blown out of proportion sometimes. There were

incidents, people racing on the roads, some silly things, but most

of the time I would say that was an exception to the rule. You came

down, metrical mates, had a chat and left. Yellow mac `` met your mates.

Mark opened his Ace Cafe to all that with high streets filling with

coffee chains at the time, many thought he was hugely naive to think

his cafe could be a long`term success, and back then all was not

running smoothly. Rantings of paper, in there, in here, everywhere. All

of it is vital stuff but actually what is important is whether you get

eggshell ingle fried egg or not, not eggshell ingle fried egg or not not

this. Are you having teething problems? I have eaten the eggshell.

We called and called you and you did not answer so somebody ate your

food! The only thing I have read is a horse and a motorbike. That is

about it. Are you taking on a risky business? Hugely. Hugely.

After revisiting the Ace Cafe 1 years on, I think it is safe to say

that Mark has now run a horse, a motorbike and a highly successful

cafe. The place is jam`packed every day with people living there

particular petroleum fantasy. Each evening we are hosting different and

distinct vehicles. We will have British motorbike nights, classic

car nights, Harley`Davidson nights. Each of the vehicle groups we host

typically have a very distinct demographics, so at one end of the

spectrum, we will have meant my age and older into classic bikes,

perhaps classic cars, and at the other end we have youngsters into

modified cars. There is a lot to do, you can have something to eat, there

are lovely people around. It is the best ways for bikes. I know because

I have some friends who used to come here a long time ago. From Brazil.

We all in our different ways identify with something. It is by

the way we dress, what we drive That is what marketing and promotion

and advertising is all about. What it seems ultimately to boil down to

in the story of this place and its heritage is opportunity to escape.

This is one of those places whose history is absolutely entrenched in

this notion of speed and the idea of speed. Soda nostalgia sells, and so

much so that the Ace is expanding. They are looking to export one to

the United States and another one is literally just opening in China.

the United States and another one is literally just opening in China. The

literally just opening in China The young men in the original bikers'

cafe would not have even seen or heard of a Chinese takeaway, let

alone taking the Ace away to China. So do they were each group the about

to become just a chain of rock n' to become just a chain of rock 'n'

roll theme parks? You can look at anything as being as a theme but the

way I look at it, they have got the theme, they have got the thing as

near as they can here and hopefully they will debate in the right way,

but if they do not do something with it I'm quite sure in these other

places, other people will come in and use it and you would have no

control on what it is like at all. You really do get the impression

that even with its worldwide expansion, the soul of this place is

safe and the now successful owner's biggest worry is... I have been

enjoying X, articulately poached egg on toast, for these past 12 years

and this morning, I have to say that regrettably I did find a bit of

shell! So we need to sort this out. If you fancy seeing that programme

we made back in the day, just head to our website. I will give you the

address in a moment and hopefully next time you return to the Ace

Cafe, Mark will have dealt with his eggshell issues.

And that is it from the current series of Inside Out London. If you

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