Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-A16-36-62
President John F. Kennedy and Governor of Texas, Price Daniel, sit in the back seat of the presidential limousine (Lincoln-Mercury Continental convertible) as President Kennedy's motorcade travels through downtown Houston, Texas, en route to Rice University. Seated in car with President Kennedy: (front seat) White House Secret Service agents, Bill Greer (driving) and Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn; (jump seat) Representative Albert Thomas (Texas) and Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Dr. Robert Gilruth. Photographers, including newsreel photographer for United Press Movietone, Thomas J. Craven, Sr. (center left), ride in adjacent car; spectators stand at right.