JFK was in Arkansas on October 3, 1963 to dedicate the Greers Ferry Dam in north-central Cleburn County. After giving remarks, shaking hands with the crowd and having a lunch of chicken barbequed on site by the Young Men’s Business Club from Batesville, Arkansas he then helicoptered to Little Rock to attend the Arkansas State Fair.
After he gave his speech on his “vision for an economically prosperous South” at the Fair to a crowd of 40,000 including many school children let out of class on a holiday, he worked the rope line for a few minutes before turning and heading to one of the two helicopters which took him back to Air Force One parked at the Little Rock Air Force Base.
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