/internal/media/dispatcher/7497/fullImage of Mrs. Kennedy in Fort Worth11/22/19632 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)FilmJean Putnam Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2011.013.0001035 mm color slide showing Jacqueline Kennedy walking toward a white open-top car before the motorcade in Fort Worth on November 22, 1963. A Secret Service agent is holding the door open for Mrs. Kennedy, who is wearing her famous pink suit.Photographs637405.08001016005.080010160032254Slide0E-1035mm color slide of Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy walking toward a car in Fort Worth, Texas, the morning of November 22, 1963. Image taken by Fort Worth resident George Putnam. Secret Service agents are visible around the first lady, including one holding open the car door for her.Fort WorthMotorcadeLimousineCrowdsKennedy, John F.Kennedy, JacquelineSecret ServiceFort WorthThe 1963 white Lincoln convertible with red leather interior used by the Kennedys in Fort Worth was loaned to the Secret Service by local resident Bill Poston, a member of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. Poston, who owned a home improvement business, leased the car for business use from the Fort Worth National Bank. The car itself came from Golightly Auto Sales in Fort Worth.
The convertible has had an interesting history. Bill Golightly of Golightly Auto Sales sold the car in 1964 to a local resident, who used the car until he sold it to the Tragedy in U.S. History Museum in St. Augustine, Florida. When that museum closed in 1998, the car went on display at the Classic Car Gallery in Southport, Connecticut. That organization then sold the car via eBay in 2003. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator