/internal/media/dispatcher/50590/fullPrayer card for President John F. KennedyNovember 1963 - 19645 1/2 × 3 9/16 in. (14 × 9 cm)PaperThe Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Collection1998.043.00060One over-sized prayer card with full-color Fabian Bachrach image of President John F. Kennedy on the front and text on the reverse.
Front of prayer card has President Kennedy's signature in white superimposed near lower right corner over the well-known Fabian Bachrach color photograph portrait of President Kennedy. Printed in white in lower right corner is text "Color by Fabian Bachrach". Card has rounded corners.
Reverse of card has text printed in black:
"In Prayerful Remembrance
Of Our Beloved President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
May 29, 1917
November 22, 1963
The following is one of the late President's favorite
passages from Scripture, from the Book of Ecclesiastes, the
third chapter:
'There is an appointed time for everything;
and a time for every affair under the heavens.
'A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant.
'A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to tear down, and a time to build.
'A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
'A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them;
a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
'A time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away.
'A time to rend, and a time to sew;
a time to be silent, and a time to speak.
'A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war, and a time of peace.'
'Ask not what your country can do for you;
ask what you can do for your country.'
Inaugural Address".
Prayer card is in good condition; minimal color loss evident on front corners of card. (JM 10/23/2017)Documents653919.048768097513.970027940119269Prayer card0E-10Prayer card with color image of President John F. Kennedy on the front and text on the reverse.
The front of prayer card has President Kennedy's signature in white superimposed near lower right corner over a well-known Fabian Bachrach color photographic portrait of President Kennedy. Printed in white in lower right corner is text "Color by Fabian Bachrach". Card has rounded corners.
The text on the back says:
"In Prayerful Remembrance
Of Our Beloved President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
May 29, 1917
November 22, 1963
The following is one of the late President's favorite
passages from Scripture, from the Book of Ecclesiastes, the
third chapter:
'There is an appointed time for everything;
and a time for every affair under the heavens.
'A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant.
'A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to tear down, and a time to build.
'A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
'A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them;
a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
'A time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away.
'A time to rend, and a time to sew;
a time to be silent, and a time to speak.
'A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war, and a time of peace.'
'Ask not what your country can do for you;
ask what you can do for your country.'
Inaugural Address".PortraitMemorialsFuneralPrayer cardMourningPhotographsBachrach, FabianKennedy, John F.Included in the Museum's temporary exhibit, "Mourning a President," about the funeral and mourning rites for President John F. Kennedy, this item will be on display on the Museum's seventh floor from November 17, 2017 to February 19, 2018. -- Lindsey Richardson, Curator of CollectionsFabian Bachrach (1917-2010) was a fourth generation photographer whose family commercial portrait studio had photographed nearly every U.S. president since Abraham Lincoln. Sen. John F. Kennedy did a portrait sitting with Bachrach in 1959, though none of the photographs proved usable because they were out of focus or Kennedy appeared "awkward." After multiple attempts scheduling a reshoot, Fabian Bachrach got his chance in the middle of the 1960 presidential campaign when Kennedy was in his U.S. Senate office. The reshoot lasted approximately ten minutes, and Bachrach had time for only six photographs. A black and white image showing Kennedy looking directly into the camera became the official presidential portrait. A color image from that same reshoot, showing Kennedy in a leather armchair with the American flag behind him, was also widely distributed. Both of these Bachrach photos appeared on memorial materials following the assassination. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator