Image of President Kennedy greeting the crowd in front of the Hotel Texas
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Image of President Kennedy greeting the crowd in front of the Hotel Texas
Black and white 35mm negative print. This image shows President John F. Kennedy shaking hands with a woman in the crowd outside the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on the morning of November 22, 1963. Several people are reaching towards the president to shake hands.This negative image is labeled "D - 29", and is the bottom left image on large contact sheet, 2014.087.0131.
Image of President Kennedy greeting the crowd in front of the Hotel Texas
11/22/1963
Paper
2 7/8 × 4 1/4 in. (7.3 × 10.8 cm)
Gene Gordon Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2014.087.0131.0005
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 President Kennedy greeting the crowd in front of the Hotel Texas
Black and white 35mm negative print. This image shows President John F. Kennedy shaking hands with a woman in the crowd outside the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on the morning of November 22, 1963. Several people are reaching towards the president to shake hands.This negative image is labeled "D - 29", and is the bottom left image on large contact sheet, 2014.087.0131.
Image of President Kennedy greeting the crowd in front of the Hotel Texas
11/22/1963
Photographs
Parking lot speech
Photographer
Crowds
Newspapers
Trip to Texas
Kennedy, John F.
Gordon, Gene
Hotel Texas
Fort Worth Press
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
Fort Worth
Paper
2 7/8 × 4 1/4 in. (7.3 × 10.8 cm)
Gene Gordon Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2014.087.0131.0005
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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