#los pinos
Today’s JFK100 post features President and Jacqueline Kennedy’s trip to Mexico in late June, 1962. About 1.5 million people lined the streets to watch JFK’s motorcade, and a blizzard of confetti showered them as they made their way through the city. In a message sent to President López Mateos after the trip, JFK wrote, “I came to meet a president and statesman, I have left him as a friend. ¡Viva México!”
Images:
JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy with Ballet Folklorico dancers at the National Institute of Fine Arts; in Mexico City with the President of Mexico, Adolfo López Mateos, and First Lady of Mexico, Eva Sámano de López Mateos, on the front steps of Los Pinos, the official residence of the President of Mexico; JFK’s motorcade to Los Pinos; Jacqueline Kennedy delivered a speech in Spanish at the Hotel Maria Isabel; Mexico City. 6/30/1962.
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