Nov. 22, 1963 - President Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and Mrs. Connally arrived at Love Field, Dallas’s airport, at 11:40 a.m. local time. The flight on Air Force One from Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth took just thirteen minutes. Vice President Johnson arrived on a separate flight, as is customary. The temperature in Dallas was 63 degrees, and the skies were clear. Bill Greer, the president’s Irish-born driver and at age 54 the oldest man in the Secret Service’s White House detail, will drive the Presidential limousine, a 1961 Lincoln Continental convertible, through downtown Dallas, where a large crowd has been gathering all morning. The President’s immediate destination is the Dallas Trade Mart, where he will deliver a speech to 2,600 people at a sold-out luncheon in the Grant Courtyard.
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