Image of the presidential motorcade leaving San Antonio International Airport
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Image of the presidential motorcade leaving San Antonio International Airport
Original 35mm black and white negative taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. President Kennedy's motorcade leaves San Antonio International Airport on Thursday, November 21, 1963. At the front of the motorcade, behind police motorcycles, is the presidential limousine carrying President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Governor John Connally and Nellie Connally. In the foreground is a press car full of reporters and photographers.
Image of the presidential motorcade leaving San Antonio International Airport
11/21/1963
Film
15/16 × 1 5/16 in. (2.4 × 3.3 cm)
The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history
2014.080.0171.0006
The journalist looking towards the camera in this photograph is legendary United Press International reporter Merriman Smith (1913-1970). Smith started covering the White House in 1940 and is today best remembered for his Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Kennedy assassination. Smith, moments after the shooting, was the first to publicly use the term "grassy knoll" to describe the grass-covered incline on the north side of Elm Street in Dealey Plaza. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of the presidential motorcade leaving San Antonio International Airport
Original 35mm black and white negative taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. President Kennedy's motorcade leaves San Antonio International Airport on Thursday, November 21, 1963. At the front of the motorcade, behind police motorcycles, is the presidential limousine carrying President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Governor John Connally and Nellie Connally. In the foreground is a press car full of reporters and photographers.
Image of the presidential motorcade leaving San Antonio International Airport
11/21/1963
Motorcade
Photographs
Photographer
Trip to Texas
Limousine
San Antonio
Kennedy, Jacqueline
Kennedy, John F.
Connally, John
Connally, Nellie
Smith, Merriman
The Dallas Morning News
Film
15/16 × 1 5/16 in. (2.4 × 3.3 cm)
The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history
2014.080.0171.0006
The journalist looking towards the camera in this photograph is legendary United Press International reporter Merriman Smith (1913-1970). Smith started covering the White House in 1940 and is today best remembered for his Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Kennedy assassination. Smith, moments after the shooting, was the first to publicly use the term "grassy knoll" to describe the grass-covered incline on the north side of Elm Street in Dealey Plaza. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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