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Keith Griffith film

Original color 8mm film taken by Keith Griffith on November 22, 1963. Griffith stood just outside Dallas Love Field airport to catch sight of the president's motorcade as it was starting on its route through Dallas. As the Kennedys drive by, Mrs. Kennedy can be seen wearing dark sunglasses; shortly after, President Kennedy asked her to remove them so the crowds could see her more clearly. After the motorcade left, Griffith filmed Air Force One and Air Force Two on the tarmac at Love Field. Later that weekend, Griffith went to Dealey Plaza, filming crowds of mourners, flower arrangements, the entrance to the Texas School Book Depository, traffic on Elm Street and finished with a close-up of the southeast corner window on the sixth floor of the building.

Object Details
Object title:

Keith Griffith film

Date:

11/22/1963

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

Gauge: 8mm

Credit line:

Keith Griffith Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1996.011.0001.0001

Curatorial Note:

Keith Griffith's film is one of only two home movies in the Museum's Collection that show Mrs. Kennedy wearing dark sunglasses in the Dallas motorcade. The other is a home movie taken by Dr. A. Jack Jernigan as the motorcade left Dallas Love Field. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

Keith Griffith film

Original color 8mm film taken by Keith Griffith on November 22, 1963. Griffith stood just outside Dallas Love Field airport to catch sight of the president's motorcade as it was starting on its route through Dallas. As the Kennedys drive by, Mrs. Kennedy can be seen wearing dark sunglasses; shortly after, President Kennedy asked her to remove them so the crowds could see her more clearly. After the motorcade left, Griffith filmed Air Force One and Air Force Two on the tarmac at Love Field. Later that weekend, Griffith went to Dealey Plaza, filming crowds of mourners, flower arrangements, the entrance to the Texas School Book Depository, traffic on Elm Street and finished with a close-up of the southeast corner window on the sixth floor of the building.

Object Details
Object title:

Keith Griffith film

Date:

11/22/1963

Terms:

Home movie

Crowds

Films

Air Force One

Limousine

Dealey Plaza

Mourners

Flowers

Motorcade

Kennedy, John F.

Griffith, Keith

Love Field

Texas School Book Depository

Dallas

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

Gauge: 8mm

Credit line:

Keith Griffith Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1996.011.0001.0001

Curatorial Note:

Keith Griffith's film is one of only two home movies in the Museum's Collection that show Mrs. Kennedy wearing dark sunglasses in the Dallas motorcade. The other is a home movie taken by Dr. A. Jack Jernigan as the motorcade left Dallas Love Field. - Stephen Fagin, Curator