Daily Archives: August 2, 2013

JFK greeted by family after landing by helicopter at Hyannis Port 50 years ago today (1963)


Video: 'Hyannis Port, August 1963: 2-5'

(Friday, August 2, 1963, late afternoon) — In a scene captured on film and widely shown in future years, a military helicopter carrying U.S. President John F. Kennedy landed today on the lawn of the Kennedy house at Hyannis Port. Waiting for him are his children and Jackie, obviously pregnant with the couple’s third child and in a simple pink summer dress.