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off the forehead, and she carried navy blue hand bag. A small gold bracelet was the only visible piece of jewelry as her wedding and engagement rings were covered by white gloves.
An Air Force Honor Guard waiting below the steps immediately snapped to attention and saluted as Agent Kellerman glanced in the direction he expected to see the car. It was there. He knew the next person through the aircraft door would be President John F. Kennedy, wearing a gray-blue, two-button suit, a white shirt with thin gray pinstripes and dark blue dotted tie. He slowly followed his wife down the stairs and grinned at Vice President and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson and other dignitaries who had landed at Love Field minutes before. As a native Texan it was proper for LBJ and Lady Bird to "greet" the President and Mrs. Kennedy upon arrival in Dallas just as they had done three times previously in the last twenty four hours in San Antonio, Houston, and Fort Worth. Though both men understood the political protocol, Johnson nonetheless was starting to feel silly about the recurrences. The trip schedule noted the charade would take place twice more this day: at Bergstrom Air Force Base outside Austin, and finally at "Volcano", the Secret Service code name for LBJ's ranch, which the Kennedy's would drive to in SS 100X. They were scheduled to spend the night.

The President and Mrs. Kennedy spent nearly 20 minutes greeting a multitude of well-wishers who had lined the fence at Dallas' Love Field. These were the non-dignitaries waiting in the blazing Texas sun just to see the popular First Lady and, as the President himself had joked on a previous trip "the man who came here with Jacqueline Kennedy." Finally, the greetings done, the entourage was again seated in cars for yet another motorcade.
Agents Greer and Kellerman were in the front seats of SS 100X with the Connally's occupying the jump seats. Nellie Connally was directly behind the driver, Agent Greer, while the Governor was in the seat behind Kellerman and directly in front of the President. The four motorcycle escort, two on each side, pulled out of the airport first, followed instantly by the motorcade. Between the President and his wife, on the back seat of the attractive dark blue Lincoln convertible, Mrs. Kennedy's bouquet lay neatly on the seat between her and the President. As had been the case with Mrs. Johnson, there had been no yellow roses left in Dallas. Jacqueline Kennedy's bouquet was red, blood red. The trip to Dealey

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