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.

Listen to an excerpt from the oral history interview with Jacques Lowe, the Kennedys' personal photographer for many years, by clicking "Find out more."

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

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Bell & Howell Model DR 16mm movie camera

16mm Bell & Howell FILMO 70-DL movie camera used by WFAA-TV chief photographer Bert Shipp for his assignments the weekend of the Kennedy assassination. Shipp was stationed at the Trade Mart to cover the president's arrival, then hurried to Parkland Hospital after the president's limousine raced past the Trade Mart without stopping. This camera, which did not have sound capability, was typical of those used by television photographers in 1963.

Object Details
Object title:

Bell & Howell Model DR 16mm movie camera

Date:

circa 1960

Terms:

Films

Cameras

Photographer

Shipp, Bert

Bell & Howell

WFAA-TV

Dallas Trade Mart

Dallas
Medium:

Metal, Glass, Plastic

Credit line:

Bert N. Shipp, WFAA-TV News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1996.026.0001

Curatorial Note:

Bert Shipp's 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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Bell & Howell Model DR 16mm movie camera

16mm Bell & Howell FILMO 70-DL movie camera used by WFAA-TV chief photographer Bert Shipp for his assignments the weekend of the Kennedy assassination. Shipp was stationed at the Trade Mart to cover the president's arrival, then hurried to Parkland Hospital after the president's limousine raced past the Trade Mart without stopping. This camera, which did not have sound capability, was typical of those used by television photographers in 1963.

Object Details
Object title:

Bell & Howell Model DR 16mm movie camera

Date:

circa 1960

Terms:

Films

Cameras

Photographer

Shipp, Bert

Bell & Howell

WFAA-TV

Dallas Trade Mart

Dallas

Medium:

Metal, Glass, Plastic

Credit line:

Bert N. Shipp, WFAA-TV News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1996.026.0001

Curatorial Note:

Bert Shipp's 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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