Image of the crowd listening to President Kennedy speak outside the Hotel Texas
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Image of the crowd listening to President Kennedy speak outside the Hotel Texas
Original 35mm black and white negative with image taken by Fort Worth Press chief photographer Gene Gordon at the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth, Texas on Friday, November 22, 1963. The image is of the crowd of people there for President Kennedy's speech outside the Hotel Texas. The negative is on Kodak Tri-X Pan Film. This image is number 22 on the negative strip (2014.087.0042).
Image of the crowd listening to President Kennedy speak outside the Hotel Texas
11/22/1963
Film
15/16 × 1 7/16 in. (2.4 × 3.7 cm)
Gene Gordon Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2014.087.0042.0001
Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 8, 2024.
Gene Gordon was the chief photographer at the Fort Worth Press in 1963. In addition to covering the presidential visit to Fort Worth on November 21-22, he photographed Lee Harvey Oswald's funeral on November 25, 1963. The Museum acquired his assassination-related images in 2014 and 2016. Gene Gordon, who passed away in 2023, recorded oral histories with the Museum in 2003 and 2015 and also participated in a Living History educational program that may be viewed on the Museum's YouTube channel: Living History with Gene Gordon - YouTube. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of the crowd listening to President Kennedy speak outside the Hotel Texas
Original 35mm black and white negative with image taken by Fort Worth Press chief photographer Gene Gordon at the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth, Texas on Friday, November 22, 1963. The image is of the crowd of people there for President Kennedy's speech outside the Hotel Texas. The negative is on Kodak Tri-X Pan Film. This image is number 22 on the negative strip (2014.087.0042).
Image of the crowd listening to President Kennedy speak outside the Hotel Texas
11/22/1963
Crowds
Photographs
Parking lot speech
Photographer
Newspapers
Trip to Texas
Kennedy, John F.
Gordon, Gene
Hotel Texas
Fort Worth Press
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
Fort Worth
Film
15/16 × 1 7/16 in. (2.4 × 3.7 cm)
Gene Gordon Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2014.087.0042.0001
Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 8, 2024.
Gene Gordon was the chief photographer at the Fort Worth Press in 1963. In addition to covering the presidential visit to Fort Worth on November 21-22, he photographed Lee Harvey Oswald's funeral on November 25, 1963. The Museum acquired his assassination-related images in 2014 and 2016. Gene Gordon, who passed away in 2023, recorded oral histories with the Museum in 2003 and 2015 and also participated in a Living History educational program that may be viewed on the Museum's YouTube channel: Living History with Gene Gordon - YouTube. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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