i n Houston a nd r esources from t he Houston Area Digital Archives Rice Hotel Sam Houston Coliseum Rice University Stadium NASA Manned Spacecraft Center 1960 John F Kennedy made a campaign stop in Houston in September of 1960 ID: 631013
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President
John F. Kennedyin Houston
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he Houston Area Digital Archives Slide2
Rice Hotel
Sam Houston Coliseum
Rice University Stadium
NASA Manned Spacecraft CenterSlide3
1960
John F. Kennedy made a campaign stop in Houston in September of 1960. He appeared at a Democratic Party rally at the
Sam Houston Coliseum and gave a speech for the Ministers Association of Greater Houston at the Rice Hotel.Slide4
1962Slide5
“We
choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the
moon in this decade and
do
the
other things, not because they
are easy, but because they are hard,
because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills,
because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we
intend
to
win
, and the others, too
.”Slide6
On the same day that JFK gave his famous speech at Rice, he also visited the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, now known as the Johnson Space Center.Slide7
1963
President Kennedy
attended the LULACbanquet in Houston at the Rice Hotela
long with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy,
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and
Lady Bird Johnson.
John J. Herrera, a past national president
of LULAC, wrote to President Kennedypersonally and urged him to attend thebanquet as an “opportunity…to meet withthe Latin Americans of Mexican descent of Texas, who have always held
[you] in highesteem.”Slide8Slide9
“Mrs. Kennedy’s speech in Spanish was received with wild cheers and
applause. . . . John F. Kennedy [was the] first U.S. president ever toBecome an honorary member of LULAC or to even attend a LULACFunction.” --LULAC News, November-December, 1963
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“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”Slide12
Mission: to collect and preserve Houston’s history.Slide13
Resources
Educator and Student Resourceshttp://digital.houstonlibrary.net/curriculum/index.html
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Digital archival material
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at the Portal to Texas HistorySpecial Collections LibrariesHouston Metropolitan Research CenterAfrican American Library at the Gregory School
Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research