Image of President and Mrs. Kennedy in the limousine at Love Field
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Image of President and Mrs. Kennedy in the limousine at Love Field
Original black and white 35mm negative by Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard. This image shows the Kennedys and Connallys seated in the presidential limousine a few seconds before the motorcade departed from Love Field. Standing in the Secret Service follow-up car behind President Kennedy is his long-time friend and advisor, Dave Powers, who was filming with his home movie camera. Secret Service agents wait next to and behind the president. To the right of a Dallas Police officer and left of an unidentified woman with a camera stands Dallas U.S. Attorney Barefoot Sanders, who had been appointed to that position two years earlier by President Kennedy.
Image of President and Mrs. Kennedy in the limousine at Love Field
11/22/1963
Film
1 7/16 x 15/16 in. (3.6 x 2.4 cm)
Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1994.003.0009.0003
The balding man wearing glasses in the middle seat of the Secret Service follow-up vehicle is the late David Powers, special assistant to President Kennedy, and later the first curator of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. Powers first met John F. Kennedy in 1946 and was a longtime family friend. As can be clearly seen in this photograph, Powers had an 8mm home movie camera with him in the follow-up vehicle on November 22, 1963, and researchers have long been curious about his seldom-seen private film. Mr. Powers' home movie, which can be seen in part online, stops around 12:25PM or roughly five minutes prior to the assassination. Considering his unique vantage point directly behind the presidential limousine, had David Powers remained filming in Dealey Plaza, his footage would likely rival the Abraham Zapruder film as one of the most historic home movies of the 20th century. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
This photograph demonstrates that the middle jump seats, where Governor and Mrs. Connally were seated, were several inches lower than the rear seat of the presidential limousine. This is a significant point when considering the single or "magic" bullet theory. Inaccurate models place President Kennedy and Governor Connally at the same height in perfect alignment. In reality, at the time of the shooting, Govenor Connally was approximately four inches lower than President Kennedy and three inches further inboard. In his 1964 Warren Commission testimony, Governor Connally estimated that the Kennedys were seated "approximately six inches higher than the jump seats on which Mrs. Connally and I sat." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of President and Mrs. Kennedy in the limousine at Love Field
Original black and white 35mm negative by Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard. This image shows the Kennedys and Connallys seated in the presidential limousine a few seconds before the motorcade departed from Love Field. Standing in the Secret Service follow-up car behind President Kennedy is his long-time friend and advisor, Dave Powers, who was filming with his home movie camera. Secret Service agents wait next to and behind the president. To the right of a Dallas Police officer and left of an unidentified woman with a camera stands Dallas U.S. Attorney Barefoot Sanders, who had been appointed to that position two years earlier by President Kennedy.
Image of President and Mrs. Kennedy in the limousine at Love Field
11/22/1963
Limousine
Photographs
Trip to Texas
Motorcade
Kennedy, Jacqueline
Sanders, Barefoot
Dillard, Tom C.
Kennedy, John F.
Connally, John
Powers, David F.
The Dallas Morning News
Secret Service
Love Field
Dallas
Film
1 7/16 x 15/16 in. (3.6 x 2.4 cm)
Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1994.003.0009.0003
The balding man wearing glasses in the middle seat of the Secret Service follow-up vehicle is the late David Powers, special assistant to President Kennedy, and later the first curator of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. Powers first met John F. Kennedy in 1946 and was a longtime family friend. As can be clearly seen in this photograph, Powers had an 8mm home movie camera with him in the follow-up vehicle on November 22, 1963, and researchers have long been curious about his seldom-seen private film. Mr. Powers' home movie, which can be seen in part online, stops around 12:25PM or roughly five minutes prior to the assassination. Considering his unique vantage point directly behind the presidential limousine, had David Powers remained filming in Dealey Plaza, his footage would likely rival the Abraham Zapruder film as one of the most historic home movies of the 20th century. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
This photograph demonstrates that the middle jump seats, where Governor and Mrs. Connally were seated, were several inches lower than the rear seat of the presidential limousine. This is a significant point when considering the single or "magic" bullet theory. Inaccurate models place President Kennedy and Governor Connally at the same height in perfect alignment. In reality, at the time of the shooting, Govenor Connally was approximately four inches lower than President Kennedy and three inches further inboard. In his 1964 Warren Commission testimony, Governor Connally estimated that the Kennedys were seated "approximately six inches higher than the jump seats on which Mrs. Connally and I sat." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
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