#JFK Sixty years ago today, President John F. Kennedy visited Brooks AFB in San Antonio to dedicate the #USAF Aerospace Medical Health Center. Kennedy spoke about how the center would help research the impacts of space travel on #NASA astronauts.
The stop was part of a multi-day political tour of Texas. From here, it was on to Houston for a political dinner honoring Rep. Albert Thomas.
Sixty years ago tomorrow, he's on to Dallas.
#JFK Sixty years ago this morning, President John F. Kennedy exited the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth to give an impromptu speech before addressing the local Chamber of Commerce.
Later in the day ... on to Dallas.
#JFK Sixty years ago this morning ... After his remarks outside the Texas Hotel, President John F. Kennedy went inside to deliver this speech to 2,000 people attending a local Chamber of Commerce breakfast. He was given a Stetson hat, which he famously declined to wear. (Kennedy hated hats.)
After the speech ... on to Dallas.
#JFK As we work our way through the day, the 60th anniversary of the assassination, I'll note that my News From The Past YouTube channel has a number of documentaries from over the years about the assassination, live news coverage, conspiracy theories (don't believe them), and recollections. You'll find the playlist at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuo7R7EWFwyu9bme7LbZVY0Bid2yNKw61
#JFK I've always enjoyed this two-hour program filmed in 1993 at Southern Methodist University. It was a gathering of the journalists who covered Kennedy's Dallas trip and assassination 60 years ago today. They have unique perspectives and insights into Dallas culture and politics.
Oh, and none of them believe in conspiracies.
#JFK This full-page ad appeared the morning of November 22, 1963 in the Dallas Morning News. MAGA before MAGA.
#JFK 60 years ago today ...
After his morning speech in Fort Worth, Kennedy and his entourage flew on Air Force One to Love Field in Dallas, where he was greeted by an enthusiastic crowd. Kennedy went over to shake hands with the crowd, which was unplanned and concerned the Secret Service.
This is live local television of the Love Field arrival.
After this ... A motorcade into downtown Dallas en route to the Trade Mart for a speech that would never happen.
#JFK For those of you who've never been to Dealey Plaza in Dallas ...
I went in 1992. I filmed all the key locations. Visiting the site convinced me there was no conspiracy.
You'll see in the video I go up behind the grassy knoll fence. That's a lousy place to hide. People were coming and going from the parking lot. A shooter easily would have been seen.
Eyewitnesses saw the shooter in the 6th floor window. There's even a grainy photo that proves it.
#JFK All three major networks broke in to their regular programming to report the shooting 60 years ago today.
This is #NBCNews, their first six hours. If you want to watch in real time, start the tape at 1:56 PM EST / 12:56 PM CST / 10:56 AM PST.
The shooting was at about 12:30 PM CST. It took the networks a while to warm up their cameras and get on the air.
#JFK From Dallas Morning News:
Since November 22, 1963, no President has passed through Dealey Plaza, although several have come close.
#JFK From Dallas Morning News:
60 years later, a portrait, of Dallas' darkest day.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/from-the-archives/2023/11/22/jfk-60th-anniversary/
#JFK Idle observation, for those of us old enough to have lived through the assassination 60 years ago today ...
In two more years, it will have been as long since Kennedy's assassination as was McKinley's 1901 assassination in 1963.
The McKinley assassination meant almost nothing to us other than a page in a history book. For most of those alive today, Kennedy's assassination is also just a page, although they also have videos and photos.
When I was growing up, assassination seemed like a normal occurrence JFK, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr — that was my normal.
@WordsmithFL Looking forward to the opening of the files 50 years after Jackie Kennedy's death. There will be answers.
@WordsmithFL Totally ticks me off that they haven't released the whole file. This is like the fertilizer if not the very seed of 'don't trust the government' info.
#JFK Sixty years ago tonight, President John F. Kennedy was at the Houston Coliseum to honor Rep. Albert Thomas (D-TX). Thomas saw on the House Appropriations Committee, which gave him a large influence on the #NASA budget.
After the dinner, his entourage flew on to Fort Worth for the night.
Sixty years tomorrow, on to Dallas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKf7bda7hIQ