Trip to Texas

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Following the previous day’s visit to San Antonio, Houston and Fort Worth, Friday, November 22 was supposed to be an equally full day. After a breakfast speech in Fort Worth, the President was to address several groups at the Dallas Trade Mart in the afternoon. A gala event was scheduled in Austin that evening. The trip would culminate with a visit to the LBJ ranch near Johnson City.

President and Mrs. Kennedy at Fort Worth breakfast, November 22, 1963. Prints and Photographs 1966/225-1

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Items in this exhibit

The case holding this exhibit topic is freestanding and has three display areas: the case top and two pull-out drawers.

Case top

Titles of two JFK speeches scheduled on November 22, 1963: “We are…the watchmen on the walls of Freedom,” Dallas.

“This country is moving…and it must not stop,” Austin.

Packet in memory of President JFK assembled by the State Democratic Executive Committee of Texas Texas Welcome Dinner program (Austin)

[Box 2-23/919 all of the above]

Dinner ticket for the same

[Box 2-22/744]

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Drawer #1

Kennedy scrapbook excerpts

[Box 1963-067-1]

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Drawer #2

Look magazine, “The Ordeal of Lyndon Johnson” and “The Johnsons in the White House,” March 10, 1964

Life magazine, “President Johnson at his White House Desk,” December 13, 1963

[Box 1963-067-2]

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Cover and text of Dallas speech (two-pages)

Dinner program

Cover and text of Austin speech (two-pages)

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