DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Roy Botello. As the first Scholarship Corporation Chairman of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Botello attended the organization's annual conference at the Rice Hotel in Houston on November 21, 1963. He captured a home movie of President and Mrs. Kennedy at the event, which he later donated to The Sixth Floor Museum.
Interview conducted at Mr. Botello's home in San Antonio on March 19, 2011 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-three minutes long.
Curatorial Commentary
I had the great pleasure of visiting Mr. Botello at his home in San Antonio on March 19, 2011. On my way southwest from Dallas, I stopped in Austin the day before and recorded oral histories at the homes of journalists Gary Cartwright (https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/33017) and Robert Hollingsworth (https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/33016). I am so grateful that I had this opportunity since all three men passed away within six years. Roy Botello died on December 4, 2016.
Thanks to this successful roadtrip in 2011, I was able to make annual spring visits to Austin and San Antonio over the next four years, recording more than twenty oral histories with a variety of journalists, authors, eyewitnesses and other interesting individuals. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
The Roy Botello home movie, filmed at the LULAC dinner in Houston on November 21, 1963, may be viewed in full here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/32261. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
