Скачать или смотреть Pope John Paul II visits San Antonio 1987 (Part 1)

September 13, 1987. Live coverage from KSAT 12, anchored by Bob Salter and Debora Daniels.

This upload covers the arrival, from New Orleans, at Kelly AFB and the motorcade out to the Mass site at Westover Hills (Highway 151 and Potranco). In addition to New Orleans, JPII had previously been to Columbia, SC (September 11) and Miami (September 10-11), where this visit to CONUS began with a meeting with President Reagan (during their meeting what became an iconic photograph was taken, and the image of the two leaders later became the inspiration for a monument in Poland depicting this meeting. Just the month before, JPII made his third return to Poland as Pope, and this would be his last visit to Poland before the pivotal events of 1989-91).

His visit to San Antonio would mark the first stop on the trip that wasn't marred by bad weather (thunder and lightning), although the heat would be quite memorable for all, JPII included. The only other issue associated with the weather, of course, w/r the SAT visit was the rain and windstorm the previous Thursday that knocked down the original façade for the altar----an impressive structure that unfortunately also had an impressive end (it can be seen as part of some pre-recorded video on this particular clip at the 28:40 mark). Also impressive were the efforts to clear out the wreckage in time and to do a very good job at improvising.