Kent Barker Collection / The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

January 2, 1960

JFK ENTERS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE

Senator Kennedy announces his candidacy for President of the United States.

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Image: Kennedy's presidential campaign button features his face on a background of red, white and blue stripes.

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Nikkorex-F 35mm camera

Nikkorex-F 35mm camera used by Associated Press photographer James "Ike" Altgens to take photographs before, during and after the shooting of President Kennedy. Altgens was the only professional to capture part of the Kennedy assassination on film and his images were the first to be shown publicly. This is the camera he used, although the lens - an identical model - is not.

Object Details
Object title:

Nikkorex-F 35mm camera

Date:

circa 1963

Terms:

Photographer

Cameras

Press

Eyewitnesses

Altgens, James "Ike"

Associated Press (AP)

Dallas
Medium:

Metal, Glass, Plastic

Credit line:

James Altgens Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1995.042.0001

Curatorial Note:

James Altgens' camera, along with the cameras of other assassination eyewitnesses, is featured in our sixth floor exhibit "John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation" in a section about photographers and evidence. - Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections

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Nikkorex-F 35mm camera

Nikkorex-F 35mm camera used by Associated Press photographer James "Ike" Altgens to take photographs before, during and after the shooting of President Kennedy. Altgens was the only professional to capture part of the Kennedy assassination on film and his images were the first to be shown publicly. This is the camera he used, although the lens - an identical model - is not.

Object Details
Object title:

Nikkorex-F 35mm camera

Date:

circa 1963

Terms:

Photographer

Cameras

Press

Eyewitnesses

Altgens, James "Ike"

Associated Press (AP)

Dallas

Medium:

Metal, Glass, Plastic

Credit line:

James Altgens Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1995.042.0001

Curatorial Note:

James Altgens' camera, along with the cameras of other assassination eyewitnesses, is featured in our sixth floor exhibit "John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation" in a section about photographers and evidence. - Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections

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