Woodbury Historical Tours: Visit to Antietam Battlefield, 7 April 1963

Description: Silent motion picture footage of President John F. Kennedy's visit to the Antietam National Battlefield site, Sharpsburg, Maryland. President Kennedy and his party, which includes Senator Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy, Joan Kennedy, Lem (Kirk LeMoyne) Billings, Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army Ralph Horton, and Under Secretary of the Treasury James A. Reed, fly from Camp David by helicopter to the battlefield. Also included is footage of the Acting Superintendent of the Antietam National Battlefield site Robert L. Lagemann, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Jr., Maude Shaw, and others who are unidentified. Naval Photo Center #1211-24.

Physical Description: 1 film reel (color; silent; 16 mm; 246 feet; 7 minutes)

Running Time (Minutes): 7

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

WHT will be revisiting Antietam next spring for a multi-day tour with historian Tom Clemens. See the full itinerary here: https://whtours.org/antietam.html

Past Tours (including Civil War Forum)

1997: Antietam & Harpers Ferry with Dennis Frye & Tom Clemens
1998: Chickamauga & Chattanooga with Jim Ogden; presentation by Sam Elliott
1999: Petersburg with Chris Calkins; talks by Bill Miller, Will Greene, Noah Trudeau; Museum of the Confederacy with John Coski; Hollywood Cemetery
2000: Vicksburg with Ed Bearss; side-trip to Port Hudson; Terry Winschel
2001: Gettysburg, with Jeffry Wert and Wayne Wachsmuth
2002: Shiloh with Stacy Allen; speakers included Wiley Sword and Larry Daniel
2003: Fredericksburg with Bob Krick; side-trip to Chancellorsville; side-trip to Guinea Station with Frank O'Reilly
2004: Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, & Prairie Grove with Bill Piston and Bill Shea
2005: 1st & 2nd Manassas with Scott Patchan; speakers included Bill Miller & Gary Ecelbarger; side-trip to Loudoun County sites with Steve Meserve
2006: Spring Hill, Franklin & Nashville, with Thomas Cartwright; side-trip to Stones River with Jim Ogden; side-trip to grave site of Sam Watkins with David Fraley
2007: Appomattox with Ed Bearss, Ron Wilson, and Patrick Schroeder; side-trip to Lynchburg
2008: The Campaign for Atlanta with Greg Biggs, Charlie Crawford, Steven Woodworth, Steve Davis, Russell Bonds, Gordon Jones, and J. D. Fowler
2009: the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaignwith Scott Patchen and Steve Meserve
2010: Civil War New Orleans, with Prof. Justin Nystrom, and Charlie Nunez
2011: The Seven Days, with Bobby Krick, and Chris Furgeson
2012: The Battle of Bentonville with Mark Bradley; Wilmington and Fort Fisher with Chris Fonvielle
2013: Fort Sumter and Secessionville, Charleston, with Pat Brennan and Richard Hatcher
2014: Ball's Bluff and Monacacy, with James Morgan, and Benjamin F. Cooling
2015: Mobile Bay and Pensacola, with Richard McMurry
2016: The Battle of Gettysburg, with D. Scott Hartwig, Stuart Dempsey, Chris Army, and Chuck Burkell
2017: The Campaign for Vicksburg, with Terry Winschel
2018: Battles of the Rosebud and Little Bighorn, with Neil Mangum
2018: The Battle of Shiloh, with Stacy Allen
2019: Civil War to Cold War in New Mexico, with Neil Mangum
2019: The Battle of Antietam, with Tom Clemens
2021: The Overland Campaign, with Gordon Rhea
2021: War on the Northern Plains, with Neil Mangum
2021: The Apache Wars, with Neil Mangum

Woodbury Historical Tours

Visit to Antietam Battlefield, 7 April 1963

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