Manager and several persons enter Suite Eight Fifty in Hotel Texas (815 Main St, Fort Worth, TX 76102, United States) in Fort Worth, Texas, where President and Mrs. Kennedy stayed the night of November 21, 1963 (the night before the President's assassination). Brass plate on door says: "Suite Eight Fifty." Women clean a table and the manager supervises them. A painting on the wall. A photographer takes still flash pictures. A woman cleans the bed. She puts a bed cover on the bed. The official inspects the work done by the women. A close view of the painting on the wall. A view of a drawing room.
United States President John F. Kennedy speaks at rally in parking lot opposite the at Hotel Texas (815 Main St, Fort Worth, TX 76102) in Fort Worth, Texas on the morning before his assassination. Others in attendance include Vice President Lyndon Johnson, Texas Governor John Connally, and Senator Ralph Yarborough. Rain and drizzle fall. The President is seen walking under a marquee at the hotel with words, "Welcome to Forth Worth, where the West begins", and out to the crowd waiting in the rain. He shakes hands with people in the crowd and then ascends a stage with the rest of the officials. After introductions, Vice-President Johnson speaks very briefly and then President Kennedy speaks at the podium, flanked by the other officials. The Presidential Seal is displayed on the podium. Men take pictures. Reporters take notes. People applaud after the speech. The President and the Vice President shake hands with people in the crowd. The President shakes hands with mounted police officers.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy accompanied by Vice President Johnson and Mrs. Johnson, at Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting in the Texas Hotel, on the morning of the day that the President was assassinated. Those present include Texas Governor Connally, Senator Yarborough, Men take pictures. The officials, Chamber of Commerce members and dignitaries applaud as President Kennedy walks on the stage. The Presidential Seal is displayed on the Podium. First Lady, Jackie Kennedy, is late arriving and applauded when she does. The President and Vice President greet her. Men take pictures. The President speaks to the assembly.
Crowds gather in vicinity of the Fort Worth, Texas, Police Headquarters. Officials gather inside. Uniformed police officers gather to discuss events and write their reports. American flags are flown at half staff on buildings all over the city, in mourning over the death of President Kennedy. Inside Police Headquarters, suspect Donald Wayne House (mistaken in some film and photos for Lee Harvey Oswald) is marched through the hall under arrest, and taken to the office of the Chief of Detectives. Sign on the Door reads: "K. N. Howard, Chief of Detectives, and O.R. Brown, Captain."
A young boy takes photographs and police officers watch as coffin containing body of Lee Harvey Oswald is brought to the chapel for burial at Shannon Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth, Texas. Funeral Director Paul Groody and assistants from Miller's Funeral Home move the coffin along the sidewalk. Spray flowers fall off the coffin and are put back again, as they move it. Several people, mostly photographers and reporters, gather outside the chapel.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the chapel at Georgia Warm Springs Foundation in Warm Springs, Georgia. Cars parked on the road side. President Roosevelt arrives at the new chapel and drives up footpath to the door. Closeup of license plate on the President's 1938 Ford convertible (with hand controls) reads 'Georgia FDR 1938'. Following the dedication service, the President is seen standing supported by door of his car, as he shakes hands with Rt. Rev. Henry J. Mikell, D.D., Bishop of Atlanta. Standing nearby are Rev. J.D.C. Wilson, Rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in LaGrange, Georgia, and FDR's neighbor and friend, and former owner of Warm Springs, Georgia Mustian Wilkins, who donated the funds for the chapel. Scene shifts to large group of polio victims, in wheel chairs. Closeup of President Roosevelt. Group of polio victims , in their wheel chairs, posing outside a Foundation building, with McCarthy Cottage and the E.T. Curtis Cottage in background.
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