PRESIDENT & MRS. KENNEDY WELCOMED TO TEXAS
San Antonio (JFK+50) On Thursday, November 21, 1963, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy were welcomed to the Lone Star State, arriving here in San Antonio on the first stop of their planned five city political tour.
Thurston Clarke gives four reasons for the visit to Texas...to raise money,
energize the party, demonstrate appeal to oil men, executives and conservatives and improve chances of winning Texas in 1964.
In an interview in the early 1990s, John Connally emphasized the fundraising aspect of the trip. He said that JFK wanted five fund-raising dinners. Nellie Connally followed that up by saying..."Gobble! Gobble!"
As Air Force One landed in San Antonio, teenagers, gathered on the observation deck, "screamed.... 'Jackie!'"
SOURCE
"JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President," by Thurston Clarke, Penguin Press, 2013.
San Antonio (JFK+50) On Thursday, November 21, 1963, President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy were welcomed to the Lone Star State, arriving here in San Antonio on the first stop of their planned five city political tour.
Thurston Clarke gives four reasons for the visit to Texas...to raise money,
energize the party, demonstrate appeal to oil men, executives and conservatives and improve chances of winning Texas in 1964.
In an interview in the early 1990s, John Connally emphasized the fundraising aspect of the trip. He said that JFK wanted five fund-raising dinners. Nellie Connally followed that up by saying..."Gobble! Gobble!"
As Air Force One landed in San Antonio, teenagers, gathered on the observation deck, "screamed.... 'Jackie!'"
SOURCE
"JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President," by Thurston Clarke, Penguin Press, 2013.
JFK and Jackie
San Antonio, Texas
November 21, 1963
Photo by Cecil Stoughton
JFK Library Image
