Image of President Kennedy speaking at the Fort Worth breakfast
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Image of President Kennedy speaking at the Fort Worth breakfast
Original 35mm black and white negative with image taken by Fort Worth Press chief photographer Gene Gordon of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast held at the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth, Texas on Friday, November 22, 1963. This image shows a large crowd of people seated at rows of set tables, and press photographers along the aisle taking photographs. The negative is on Kodak Tri-X Pan Film. This image is number 8.
Image of President Kennedy speaking at the Fort Worth breakfast
11/22/1963
Film
1 3/8 × 1 1/2 in. (3.5 × 3.8 cm)
Gene Gordon Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2014.087.0091
Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 8, 2024.
Construction began on the historic Hotel Texas in downtown Fort Worth in 1920, with a two-story addition and ballroom completed in 1963. On the night of November 21, 1963, the Kennedys stayed in Suite 850. The hotel, renamed the Sheraton-Fort Worth in 1968, was renovated in 1970 in order to serve as the official hotel for the newly-constructed Fort Worth Convention Center. This renovation, however, did not last long. The hotel was gutted and extensively renovated once again in 1979, reopening in 1981 as the Hyatt Regency Fort Worth. The name subsequently changed to the Radisson Fort Worth in 1995 and, in 2006, to the Hilton Fort Worth (which is still its name as of 2023). The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1979. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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 speaking at the Fort Worth breakfast
Original 35mm black and white negative with image taken by Fort Worth Press chief photographer Gene Gordon of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast held at the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth, Texas on Friday, November 22, 1963. This image shows a large crowd of people seated at rows of set tables, and press photographers along the aisle taking photographs. The negative is on Kodak Tri-X Pan Film. This image is number 8.
Image of President Kennedy speaking at the Fort Worth breakfast
11/22/1963
Photographs
Speeches
Photographer
Press
Newspapers
Fort Worth breakfast
Trip to Texas
Kennedy, John F.
Gordon, Gene
Hotel Texas
Fort Worth Press
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
Fort Worth
Film
1 3/8 × 1 1/2 in. (3.5 × 3.8 cm)
Gene Gordon Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2014.087.0091
Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 8, 2024.
Construction began on the historic Hotel Texas in downtown Fort Worth in 1920, with a two-story addition and ballroom completed in 1963. On the night of November 21, 1963, the Kennedys stayed in Suite 850. The hotel, renamed the Sheraton-Fort Worth in 1968, was renovated in 1970 in order to serve as the official hotel for the newly-constructed Fort Worth Convention Center. This renovation, however, did not last long. The hotel was gutted and extensively renovated once again in 1979, reopening in 1981 as the Hyatt Regency Fort Worth. The name subsequently changed to the Radisson Fort Worth in 1995 and, in 2006, to the Hilton Fort Worth (which is still its name as of 2023). The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1979. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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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