Image of the Kennedys disembarking from Air Force One at Dallas Love Field

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Image of the Kennedys disembarking from Air Force One at Dallas Love Field

Original black and white 35mm negative by Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard. The image shows First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and President Kennedy disembarking from Air Force One at Love Field on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Governor Connally and Nellie Connally follow the Kennedys down the stairs. At the base of the stairs Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson can be seen waiting to greet President and Mrs Kennedy.

Object Details
Object title:

Image of the Kennedys disembarking from Air Force One at Dallas Love Field

Date:

11/22/1963

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

15/16 × 1 7/16 in. (2.4 × 3.6 cm)

Credit line:

Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1994.003.0007.0003

Curatorial Note:

The man saluting at the bottom of the Eastern Airlines staircase is the late John Polanichka, a U.S. Air Force staff sergeant who served as an Air Force One security guard for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Next to Polanichka, facing away from the camera, is the late U.S. Secret Service agent Win Lawson. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator

Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 8, 2024.

Image of the Kennedys disembarking from Air Force One at Dallas Love Field

Original black and white 35mm negative by Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard. The image shows First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and President Kennedy disembarking from Air Force One at Love Field on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Governor Connally and Nellie Connally follow the Kennedys down the stairs. At the base of the stairs Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson can be seen waiting to greet President and Mrs Kennedy.

Object Details
Object title:

Image of the Kennedys disembarking from Air Force One at Dallas Love Field

Date:

11/22/1963

Terms:

Roses

Trip to Texas

Air Force One

Photographs

Kennedy, John F.

Dillard, Tom C.

Connally, John

Connally, Nellie

Johnson, Lady Bird

Kennedy, Jacqueline

Johnson, Lyndon B.

The Dallas Morning News

Love Field

Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce

Dallas

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

15/16 × 1 7/16 in. (2.4 × 3.6 cm)

Credit line:

Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1994.003.0007.0003

Curatorial Note:

The man saluting at the bottom of the Eastern Airlines staircase is the late John Polanichka, a U.S. Air Force staff sergeant who served as an Air Force One security guard for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Next to Polanichka, facing away from the camera, is the late U.S. Secret Service agent Win Lawson. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator

Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 8, 2024.