Image of the Kennedys disembarking from Air Force One at Dallas Love Field
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Image of the Kennedys disembarking from Air Force One at Dallas Love Field
Original black and white 35mm negative by Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard. The image shows First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and President Kennedy disembarking from Air Force One at Love Field on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Governor Connally and Nellie Connally follow the Kennedys down the stairs. At the base of the stairs Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson can be seen waiting to greet President and Mrs Kennedy.
Image of the Kennedys disembarking from Air Force One at Dallas Love Field
11/22/1963
Film
15/16 × 1 7/16 in. (2.4 × 3.6 cm)
Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1994.003.0007.0003
The man saluting at the bottom of the Eastern Airlines staircase is the late John Polanichka, a U.S. Air Force staff sergeant who served as an Air Force One security guard for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Next to Polanichka, facing away from the camera, is the late U.S. Secret Service agent Win Lawson. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 28, 2024.
Image of the Kennedys disembarking from Air Force One at Dallas Love Field
Original black and white 35mm negative by Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard. The image shows First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and President Kennedy disembarking from Air Force One at Love Field on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Governor Connally and Nellie Connally follow the Kennedys down the stairs. At the base of the stairs Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson can be seen waiting to greet President and Mrs Kennedy.
Image of the Kennedys disembarking from Air Force One at Dallas Love Field
11/22/1963
Roses
Trip to Texas
Air Force One
Photographs
Kennedy, John F.
Dillard, Tom C.
Connally, John
Connally, Nellie
Johnson, Lady Bird
Kennedy, Jacqueline
Johnson, Lyndon B.
The Dallas Morning News
Love Field
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
Dallas
Film
15/16 × 1 7/16 in. (2.4 × 3.6 cm)
Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1994.003.0007.0003
The man saluting at the bottom of the Eastern Airlines staircase is the late John Polanichka, a U.S. Air Force staff sergeant who served as an Air Force One security guard for Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. Next to Polanichka, facing away from the camera, is the late U.S. Secret Service agent Win Lawson. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 28, 2024.
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