/internal/media/dispatcher/7186/fullNikkorex-F 35mm cameracirca 1963Metal, Glass, PlasticJames Altgens Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1995.042.000101 Nikkorex-F 35 mm camera. This is the camera Ike Altgens used in Dealey Plaza the day of the assassination. He no longer had the original lens he used but another donor gave us an identical lens (1996.032), so we used that when we put the Altgens camera on display on the sixth floor (where it currently is).Artifacts6617911738CameraNikkorex-F 35mm camera used by Associated Press photographer James "Ike" Altgens to take photographs before, during and after the shooting of President Kennedy. Altgens was the only professional to capture part of the Kennedy assassination on film and his images were the first to be shown publicly. This is the camera he used, although the lens - an identical model - is not.PhotographerCamerasPressEyewitnessesAltgens, James "Ike"Associated Press (AP)DallasJames Altgens' 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