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Image of the Kennedys walking toward the crowd at Love Field
Image of the Kennedys walking toward the crowd at Love Field

Image of the Kennedys walking toward the crowd at Love Field

Object number1989.100.0004.0017
Date11/22/1963
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer Dallas Times Herald photographer
ObjectNegative (b&w)
Credit LineDallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumFilm
Dimensions15/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)
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DescriptionOriginal 35mm black and white negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. This image shows President and Mrs. Kennedy walking toward the waiting crowd at Love Field on the morning of November 22, 1963. The images on this negative strip were taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. There were three photographers at Love Field that day: John Mazziotta, Bob Jackson and Eamon Kennedy. It is not known which of the three took these pictures.
Curatorial Commentary
This is the moment in which the Kennedys, after greeting the local dignitaries and guests, were supposed to walk toward the presidential limousine, but they decided instead to say hello to the crowd and shake their hands by walking along the cyclone fence line. This unplanned diversion caught the Secret Service briefly off guard, and subsequent images show them following the Kennedys very closely. - Gary Mack, Curator