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(Thursday, November 21, 1963, 1:30 p.m. CST) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy arrived in San Antonio this afternoon to begin a two-day, five-city tour of Texas.

The Kennedys were greeted by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Governor John B. Connally, and Senator Ralph W. Yarborough.

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Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy then traveled by motorcade through San Antonio, where he dedicated the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base.

From there, they flew to Houston, where he traveled in another motorcade en route to another speech at the Houston Coliseum and then went to Fort Worth where they spent the night at the Hotel Texas on the eighth floor in Room 850.

Speeches were set for the next day at Fort Worth, Dallas and Austin

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Kennedy was aware that a feud among party leaders in Texas could jeopardize his chances of carrying the state in 1964, and one of his aims for the trip was to bring Democrats together.

He also knew that a relatively small but vocal group of extremists was contributing to the political tensions in Texas and would likely make its presence felt—particularly in Dallas, where U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson had been physically attacked a month earlier after making a speech there.