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The Texas Observer NOV. 29, 1963 The Texas Observer NOV. 29, 1963 A Journal of Free Voices A Window to The South 25c THE LAST VOYAGE OF MR. KENNEDY Come now on the last voyage of Mr. Purcell, John Young, Joe Kilgore, Walter building of the center, great ribbons of Kennedy. Rogers, George Mahon, Henry Gonzalez, blue and white crepe paper curving fan-like The members of the party were the Presi- 0. C. Fisher, Lindley Beckworth, Wright out from under it into another wood super- dent, his wife, and the Vice-President; ten Patman, and Clark Thompson, of Texas. structure, wrapped in blue crepe and ap- members of the President's staff, Ken- parently just decorative. On the roof of the neth O'Donnell, David Powers, Lawrence Fifty-eight members of the national press accompanied the party from Wash- building two Air Force sentinels, one a O'Brien, Gen. Chester Clifton, Malcolm white man, and one a Negro man, stood Kilduff, George Burkley, Mrs. Evelyn Lin- ington, and ten members of the press joined the party in Texas. They flew in three easily against the horizon of the afternoon coln, Miss Pamela Turnure, Miss Christian and looked out over the crowd. Camp, and Mrs. Mary Gallagher ; and sev- majestic jets, two for the party, one for enteen members of Congress, Sen. Ralph the press. The President traveled in one A wind was kicking up his bushy fore- Yarborough and Cong. Jack Brooks, Ray of the jets, and the Vice-President in an- lock as Kennedy delivered his speech, vary- Roberts, Olin Teague, Albert Thomas, other, for they are not permitted to fly ing from the text so that he would not have Homer Thornberry, Jim Wright, Graham to read it too closely. It was the style we in the same plane at the same time. have all heard many times, words that somehow were shaped in the way they sounded by the hard corners of his jaws. He stood at a rostrum between two be- tasseled flags, the American, and. I guess San Antonio the presidential, and in front of him and the dignitaries, high over us all on a silver flag pole, another and larger American In San Antonio, the first stop, Mr. and through town, proceeding south toward flag snapped in the smart fall breeze. Mrs. Kennedy came from the plane followed the Aero-Space Medical Health Center at by Cong. Gonzalez of San Antonio and Brooks A.F.B., the motorcade was stopped It was not an important speech, some- others. Kennedy, in a light royal blue suit, twice again, and old Brackenridge High thing to get through, really, and the Vice- looked thinner than I ever remember him, School's student body turned out by the President gazed off to his right, absorbed extremely fit, and happy to be where he side of the road ; they are mostly Latin-. in his thoughts. Gov. Connally, too, seemed found himself as he moved down the long American children, and a few Anglos and not to be listening, absorbed in thought; reception line, shaking hands and nodding Negroes, and they cheered tumultuously as Sen. Yarborough, seated behind Kennedy his head readily as he smiled and chatted. the Kennedys passed. to the right side, kept his gaze on the The graceful Mrs. Kennedy, a stewardess Except for the pool reporters, who travel back of the President's head, and was told reporters impatient to learn how to close to the President's car and who repre- smiling steadily. describe he outfit, wore a white wool sent the other press, we in the press party The President said in San Antonio : boucle two-piece suit with a black tie saw all this from inside two air-conditioned "For more than three years I have spok- belt, and a black cloche hat. buses. We learned that on the flight down, en about the New Frontier. This is not a The motorcade had to stop when chil- the President had chatted on the plane partisan term, and it is not the exclusive dren in front of a school in Alamo Heights for about two hours with the members of property of Republicans or Democrats. It ran forward to the car carrying the Ken- the congressional delegation who flew from refers, instead, to this nation's place in nedys and Governor and Mrs. John Con- Washington with him, Yarborough, Kil- history, to the fact that we do stand on nally, who rode together in all the gore, Teague, Mahon, Young and Gonzalez. the edge of a great new era, with both motorcades of the visit to Texas. We came As the motorcade rounded the turn into crisis and opportunity, an era to be char- to halts again in front of a Catholic school the space medicine center, we saw a small acterized by achievement and by challenge. and an insurance association on Broadway, group of Negroes holding signs. They were It is an era which calls for action and for as children and grown-ups, running and separated from the route by a police car. the best efforts of all those who would test calling out, waving American flags and run- As we briskly wheeled by, I could just the unknown, and the uncertain in phases ning holding hands, broke their lines on make out that one of the signs said "GI of human endeavor. It is the time for path- the curbs and formed moiling human Families are Segregated in San Antonio." finders and pioneers." wedges converging on the car. Those who got near stretched out their hands to touch K ENNEDY made a speech on Telling, extemporaneously, of his hav- the President's. the value of the work that is done at the ing seen, the preceding Saturday, the new The way into town was a long way, and center. A large crowd had gathered before Saturn C-1 rocket booster, the largest in people were spaced sparsely on the route. a wooden superstructure on which the the world, at Cape Canaveral, Kennedy but in the downtown they were mobbed presidential party were arrayed. Behind said: on the streets, and confetti fluttered down the party, towering over it, was the Air "I think the United States should be a from the buildings high overhead. Passing Force seal affixed to the facade of the leader. A country as rich and powerful as this which bears so many burdens and orchard wall that seemed too high and too of us, had a drink or so, and dinner. We responsibilities, which has so many oppor- doubtful to try and too difficult to permit heard that the President had dinner with tunities, should be second to none." their voyage to continue, they took off a group of about ten important, wealthy It will not be easy, he said. "There will their hats and tossed them over the wall— Houston citizens, and for all I know some be setbacks and frustrations, disappoint- and then they had no choice but to follow intrepid reporter found out their names, ments. There will be, as there always are, them. This nation has tossed its cap over and it has been printed; but I do not know, pressures in this country to do less in this the wall of space, and we have no choice and if I had read it I would not put it in, area as in so many others, and tempta- but to follow it." because I have not wanted to put any- tions to do something else that is perhaps Reporters' typewriters were clicking thing down in this that I did not see or hear easier. But . The conquest of space must rapidly at the press desks beside the plat- myself. and will go ahead. That much we know. form during the President's speech. They That much we can say with confidence and were writing, for wiring off to their editors Don Yarborough, the Houston lawyer conviction. before they had to get back on the plane, whose prospective candidacy for governor "Frank O'Connor, the Irish writer, tells stories not of the speech, but of the Texas had been exciting much curiosity and com- in one of his books how, as a boy, he and Democrats' inter-party conflict, which was ment among members of the national press his friends would make their way across eclipsing the other events of the visit in during the day, appeared in the second the countryside and when they came to an the news stories of the day. floor lobby, and I was questioning him, when Mike Ethridge came up to us. Ethridge is a staunch loyal Democrat in Houston, and he is often seen carrying signs at political gatherings and Democratic Houston conventions. He likes to carry the message himself, in his own hands. He took from sign, "Khrushchev, Kennedy, and King." his pocket two sheets of note-size station- WE FLEW QUICKLY over to Reporters the other side of the bus said ery, embossed in the color of gold with Houston in the afternoon ; the press landed they saw an airplane aloft with a streamer, the Air Force seal and the words, "Aboard first. There was a goodly crowd, and a "Coexistence Is Surrender." Air Force One." Someone had given them band all garbed in bright red, tumping Although it was the dinner hour, down- to him, and a third sheet, which he was away. From the presidential plane there town was jammed. It seems to me that more giving to someone else; he separated the emerged the Kennedys, the Connallys, the Negroes were in the crowds in Houston two sheets and gave one to Yarborough Yarboroughs, and Cong.
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