Footage of JFK's Last Night Made Public After 47 Years

[onehandle]

The Rice Hotel in Houston was the second stop of a planned five-city Texas visit that was to have finished at a fund-raiser dinner in Austin. The Kennedy assassination happened in Dallas the next day.

Shortly before 9 p.m. in the hotel's grand ballroom, President Kennedy spoke to a group of several hundred from the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). He then introduced First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy who spoke, without notes, in Spanish. The room erupted in cheers of "olé."

The film was recently donated to the Museum by Roy Botello who, at the time, served as the first Scholarship Corporation Chairman of LULAC in San Antonio. He brought along his home movie camera that evening and captured silent color film of the Kennedy arrival, welcoming dignitaries, a mariachi band and both Kennedys addressing the crowd.

The Museum is committed to finding and preserving home movies, photographs and news coverage of events related to JFK's November 21 - 22, 1963 trip to Texas and his assassination and to making these materials accessible to the public through exhibition, programs and research opportunities.

http://www.jfk.org/index.cfm?objectid=39F28DEE-1D09-33F3-C8C7AD185317303C

It's silent, but amazing.

[Clio the Leo]

1. egads those people were glamorous....

... stunning.

[Armstead]

2. Weird seeing that knowing that he doesn't know it's his last night on earth

[DemocraticVictory]

3. Footage of JFK's Last Night

This is amazing

[williesgirl]

4. Really takes me back - thanks for posting. Here's a heart and a rec

[onehandle]

5. Thanks for the heart!

And the rec.

:)

[BlueIris]

6. Wow, they were good at working a room.

It's unusual to see such effortless grace nowadays.

[livetohike]

7. K&R

:kick:

[Imagevision]

8. If only we could view Johnson's last night before JFK's head was blasted

[Carolina]

9. time it was and

what a time it was. We had elegance, grace and intelligence in the White House. We had a president who wasn't afraid of the word liberal; infact, he was proud of liberalism and its traditions.

When THEY killed him, the nation changed and it has never recovered from those who (after Johnson*) subsequently ascended to power.

* I believe Johnson could have been a great president (Civil Rights, Great Society, Medicare, Medicaid...) had it not been for his blindness about Vietnam and his desire not to go down in history as the 1st POTUS to lose a war, notably the war on communism.

[Radical Activist]

10. JFK had great style but I'm glad we have a more progressive President today.

It's good to have a President like Obama who backs up style with more progressive accomplishments than Kennedy had.