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Image of President Kennedy shaking hands outside the Hotel Texas
Original 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald photographer William Allen. This image shows President Kennedy shaking hands with members of the crowd outside the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth the morning of November 22, 1963. The photographer was standing above and behind the president.
Image of President Kennedy shaking hands outside the Hotel Texas
11/22/1963
Film
15/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)
William Allen, photographer, Dallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1989.100.0002.0014
This photo shows the extraordinarily diverse crowd that greeted President Kennedy in Fort Worth. It is also demonstrates how people brought their cameras out to document the president's visit that day. - Sharron Conrad, Curator of Education
In the crowd that morning was eight-year-old Fort Worth native, and future Hollywood actor, Bill Paxton (Titanic, Apollo 13, HBO's "Big Love"). In his oral history with the Museum in 2007, he remarked, "It was like seeing a movie star for me.... [Kennedy] seemed tan and very jocular.... You could just feel there was an electricity in the air. It was something." - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator
Image of President Kennedy shaking hands outside the Hotel Texas
Original 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald photographer William Allen. This image shows President Kennedy shaking hands with members of the crowd outside the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth the morning of November 22, 1963. The photographer was standing above and behind the president.
Image of President Kennedy shaking hands outside the Hotel Texas
11/22/1963
Parking lot speech
Fort Worth
Crowds
Photographs
Allen, William
Kennedy, John F.
Dallas Times Herald
Hotel Texas
Film
15/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)
William Allen, photographer, Dallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1989.100.0002.0014
This photo shows the extraordinarily diverse crowd that greeted President Kennedy in Fort Worth. It is also demonstrates how people brought their cameras out to document the president's visit that day. - Sharron Conrad, Curator of Education
In the crowd that morning was eight-year-old Fort Worth native, and future Hollywood actor, Bill Paxton (Titanic, Apollo 13, HBO's "Big Love"). In his oral history with the Museum in 2007, he remarked, "It was like seeing a movie star for me.... [Kennedy] seemed tan and very jocular.... You could just feel there was an electricity in the air. It was something." - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator
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