Image of President Kennedy greeting the crowd in front of the Hotel Texas
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Image of President Kennedy greeting the crowd in front of the Hotel Texas
Black and white 35mm negative print. This image shows President John F. Kennedy shaking hands with a woman in the crowd outside the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on the morning of November 22, 1963. Several people are reaching towards the president to shake hands.This negative image is labeled "D - 29", and is the bottom left image on large contact sheet, 2014.087.0131.
Image of President Kennedy greeting the crowd in front of the Hotel Texas
11/22/1963
Paper
2 7/8 × 4 1/4 in. (7.3 × 10.8 cm)
Gene Gordon Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2014.087.0131.0005
Gene Henderson Gordon (1929 - 2023) got his first job as a professional photographer at the age of 19 in 1948 at the Fort Worth Press, a Scripps-Howard newspaper launched in 1921. Less than five years later, Gordon was promoted to chief photographer, a position that he still held at the time of the Kennedy assassination in 1963. Gordon covered the Kennedys' arrival at Carswell Air Force Base on the night on November 21st and, a few hours later, President Kennedy's parking lot speech at the Hotel Texas and the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast in the hotel's ballroom. Following the assassination, he covered the funeral of Lee Harvey Oswald at Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth on November 25th. Gene Gordon remained at the Fort Worth Press until the paper ceased publication in 1975, after which he became a staff photographer, later chief photographer, at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He retired in 1997 after half a century as a professional photographer in Fort Worth. We were honored to record oral history interviews with Gene in 2003 and 2015. He also participated in two programs at The Sixth Floor Museum, including this Living History educational program in 2017: Living History with Gene Gordon (youtube.com). The Museum acquired his collection of Kennedy-related negatives and prints in 2014 and 2016. Gene Gordon passed away on March 16, 2023. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 28, 2024.
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 greeting the crowd in front of the Hotel Texas
Black and white 35mm negative print. This image shows President John F. Kennedy shaking hands with a woman in the crowd outside the Hotel Texas in Fort Worth on the morning of November 22, 1963. Several people are reaching towards the president to shake hands.This negative image is labeled "D - 29", and is the bottom left image on large contact sheet, 2014.087.0131.
Image of President Kennedy greeting the crowd in front of the Hotel Texas
11/22/1963
Photographs
Parking lot speech
Photographer
Crowds
Newspapers
Trip to Texas
Kennedy, John F.
Gordon, Gene
Hotel Texas
Fort Worth Press
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
Fort Worth
Paper
2 7/8 × 4 1/4 in. (7.3 × 10.8 cm)
Gene Gordon Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2014.087.0131.0005
Gene Henderson Gordon (1929 - 2023) got his first job as a professional photographer at the age of 19 in 1948 at the Fort Worth Press, a Scripps-Howard newspaper launched in 1921. Less than five years later, Gordon was promoted to chief photographer, a position that he still held at the time of the Kennedy assassination in 1963. Gordon covered the Kennedys' arrival at Carswell Air Force Base on the night on November 21st and, a few hours later, President Kennedy's parking lot speech at the Hotel Texas and the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast in the hotel's ballroom. Following the assassination, he covered the funeral of Lee Harvey Oswald at Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth on November 25th. Gene Gordon remained at the Fort Worth Press until the paper ceased publication in 1975, after which he became a staff photographer, later chief photographer, at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He retired in 1997 after half a century as a professional photographer in Fort Worth. We were honored to record oral history interviews with Gene in 2003 and 2015. He also participated in two programs at The Sixth Floor Museum, including this Living History educational program in 2017: Living History with Gene Gordon (youtube.com). The Museum acquired his collection of Kennedy-related negatives and prints in 2014 and 2016. Gene Gordon passed away on March 16, 2023. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 28, 2024.
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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