Keith Griffith film
Object number1996.011.0001.0001
Date11/22/1963
ClassificationsFilms
Photographer
Keith Griffith
ObjectFilm, 8mm
Credit LineKeith Griffith Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumFilm
DimensionsGauge: 8mm
Collections
DescriptionOriginal 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.
Curatorial CommentaryKeith 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
