Negative strip with 2 images of preparations at the Hotel Texas
Original 120 film black and white negative strip of Kodak film containing two images of a man changing out the marquee sign above the Hotel Texas entrance in Fort Worth, Texas on Thursday, November 21, 1963. The right side of the film has a label reading “Kodak Safety Film” while the other side has images labeled “4 C” and “5 D.” Handwritten in orange grease pen at the top of the film is “YES” with an arrow pointing down.
Red striped baby outfit worn at Love Field by Peggy Vaughan Sorrentino on 11/22/1963, includes top and pants
Two-piece red striped Nannekins by Nannette toddler outfit worn by fifteen-month-old Peggy Vaughan Sorrentino at Dallas Love Field on November 22, 1963. Held by her mother, Kathleen Vaughan, young Peggy briefly interacted with the Kennedys along the fence line before the start of the presidential motorcade.
Wormser Airliner hat worn by Elmer Boyd
Wormser Airliner hat worn by Dallas police detective Elmer Boyd throughout the Kennedy assassination weekend in 1963. Boyd was wearing this light-colored hat, a tradition among all of Captain Will Fritz’s homicide detectives at the time, at the Dallas Trade Mart luncheon, Parkland Memorial Hospital, on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository and in the hallways and offices of Dallas police headquarters. Boyd, always wearing this hat, was frequently photographed and captured in news footage when he escorted suspect Lee Harvey Oswald in the corridors of police headquarters on the afternoon and evening of November 22, 1963.
Fort Worth breakfast ticket for the Hotel Texas, 11/22/1963
Ticket to a breakfast sponsored by the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce to honor President and Mrs. Kennedy at the Hotel Texas the morning of November 22, 1963. The ticket price was $3.00.