/internal/media/dispatcher/45494/fullContact sheet with images of the Kennedys in San Antonio and Dallas11/21/196311 1/8 × 8 in. (28.3 × 20.3 cm)Paper, PhotoThe Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Donated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history2014.080.01610One black and white contact sheet showing eleven 120 film negative images. The images are of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy in San Antonio, Texas on Thursday, November 21, 1963. The images are of President and Mrs. Kennedy at Brooks Air Force Base for the dedication of the United States Air Force Aerospace Medical Division (where the president gave a speech), in a motorcade, and at Kelly Air Force Base. The bottom right image appears to be of President and Mrs. Kennedy departing Air Force One at Love Field in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. The presidential party arrived at San Antonio International Airport, drove in a motorcade through downtown to Brooks AFB, and then to Kelly AFB to depart for Houston, Texas. Contact sheet is printed on Kodak paper. (There are no corresponding negatives.)
This item was originally stored in the "The Dallas Morning News JFK Assassination Negatives and Contact Sheets Vol. 1" binder (2014.080.0001). This item was in the section of the binder labeled "JFK in S.A. & Ft. Wort [sic]."
The page has a typed adhesive label in the upper right corner. The label reads: "JFK 22: JFK's visit to San Antonio, 11-21-1963."
The table of contents (2014.080.0002) listing for JFK 22 describes it as: "JFK 22: More views of JFK's visit to San Antonio, 11-21-1963 (eleven, 120-size negs.)"Photographs6560820.320040640128.257556515144771Contact sheet0E-10Black and white contact sheet showing eleven 120 film negative images. With the exception of the bottom right photo, the images are of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy visiting San Antonio, Texas on Thursday, November 21, 1963. The presidential party arrived at San Antonio International Airport, drove in a motorcade through downtown to Brooks Air Force Base and then to Kelly Air Force Base to depart for Houston, Texas. The images on this contact sheet show President and Mrs. Kennedy at Brooks AFB, in a motorcade, and at Kelly AFB, with the exception of the bottom right image, which shows President and Mrs. Kennedy arriving at Dallas Love Field on the following day, November 22, 1963. Contact sheet is printed on Kodak paper.CrowdsPhotographsSpeechesPhotographerTrip to TexasAir Force OneSan AntonioKennedy, John F.Kennedy, JacquelineThe Dallas Morning NewsBrooks Air Force BaseKelly Air Force BaseU.S. Air ForceFort Worth Chamber of CommerceSan AntonioOf all the cities on the two-day trip to Texas in November 1963, the first stop - San Antonio - was the shortest. From arrival to departure, the Kennedys were only in San Antonio a total of approximately two and a half hours. The presidential party arrived at San Antonio International Airport at 1:30PM and then proceeded fifteen miles by motorcade through downtown San Antonio to Brooks Air Force Base, where President Kennedy dedicated the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine. He and Mrs. Kennedy also took time at Brooks to briefly interact with student journalists from the San Antonio ISD. They then departed Brooks for nearby Kelly Air Force Base where Air Force One waited to take the Kennedys to Houston that afternoon.
Interestingly, the visit to San Antonio was initially scheduled to be after Dallas on Friday, November 22. Trip planning documents at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston outline a different itinerary (dated November 7, 1963) in which the Kennedys began their trip to Texas in the late afternoon of November 21 with a 4:00PM arrival in Houston and an overnight stay in Houston's Rice Hotel. Friday, November 22, would have then started with an early morning flight to Fort Worth for a Chamber of Commerce breakfast at the Hotel Texas, followed by a Dallas motorcade and luncheon at Fair Park (where the annual State Fair of Texas is hosted). From Dallas, the Kennedys would have then traveled to San Antonio on the afternoon of November 22 for the dedicated of the aerospace medicine school at Brooks before heading to Austin for a fundraising dinner. As initially planned, the Kennedys would have returned to Washington, D.C. on the night of November 22 rather than spend the weekend at the Johnson Ranch. This early itinerary continued to evolve throughout November until the trip details were finalized. - Stephen Fagin, Curator Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 28, 2024.