New film shows Kennedy's Nov. 1963 visit to Houston

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New film shows Kennedy's Nov. 1963 visit to Houston

February 22, 2011

The Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas recently acquired footage of President John F. Kennedy's Nov. 21, 1963, visit to Houston.

The footage -- taken one day before his assassination in Dallas -- shows the president and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy at the Rice Hotel for a League of United Latin American Citizens function. Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson were also at the Rice Hotel that evening.

According to the museum:

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 Kennedys also stopped by the Sam Houston Coliseum to attend a dinner for U.S. Rep. Albert Thomas. From there, the president's entourage departed Houston International Airport for Fort Worth.

The film can be viewed at the Sixth Floor Museum's website: http://www.jfk.org/index.cfm?objectid=39F28DEE-1D09-33F3-C8C7AD185317303C

The exhibition is part of the museum's effort to find and preserve artifacts pertaining to Kennedy's Texas visit.

http://blogs.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/2011/02/new_film_shows_kennedys_nov_1963_visit_to_houston.html

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