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Image of the presidential motorcade leaving San Antonio International Airport

Original 35mm black and white negative taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. President Kennedy's motorcade leaves San Antonio International Airport on Thursday, November 21, 1963. At the front of the motorcade, behind police motorcycles, is the presidential limousine carrying President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Governor John Connally and Nellie Connally. In the foreground is a press car full of reporters and photographers.

Object Details
Object title:

Image of the presidential motorcade leaving San Antonio International Airport

Date:

11/21/1963

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

15/16 × 1 5/16 in. (2.4 × 3.3 cm)

Credit line:

The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history

Object number:

2014.080.0171.0006

Curatorial Note:

The journalist looking towards the camera in this photograph is legendary United Press International reporter Merriman Smith (1913-1970). Smith started covering the White House in 1940 and is today best remembered for his Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Kennedy assassination. Smith, moments after the shooting, was the first to publicly use the term "grassy knoll" to describe the grass-covered incline on the north side of Elm Street in Dealey Plaza. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

Image of the presidential motorcade leaving San Antonio International Airport

Original 35mm black and white negative taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. President Kennedy's motorcade leaves San Antonio International Airport on Thursday, November 21, 1963. At the front of the motorcade, behind police motorcycles, is the presidential limousine carrying President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Governor John Connally and Nellie Connally. In the foreground is a press car full of reporters and photographers.

Object Details
Object title:

Image of the presidential motorcade leaving San Antonio International Airport

Date:

11/21/1963

Terms:

Motorcade

Photographs

Photographer

Trip to Texas

Limousine

San Antonio

Kennedy, Jacqueline

Kennedy, John F.

Connally, John

Connally, Nellie

Smith, Merriman

The Dallas Morning News

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

15/16 × 1 5/16 in. (2.4 × 3.3 cm)

Credit line:

The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history

Object number:

2014.080.0171.0006

Curatorial Note:

The journalist looking towards the camera in this photograph is legendary United Press International reporter Merriman Smith (1913-1970). Smith started covering the White House in 1940 and is today best remembered for his Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Kennedy assassination. Smith, moments after the shooting, was the first to publicly use the term "grassy knoll" to describe the grass-covered incline on the north side of Elm Street in Dealey Plaza. - Stephen Fagin, Curator