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Image of President and Mrs. Kennedy greeting crowds at Love Field
Image of President and Mrs. Kennedy greeting crowds at Love Field

Image of President and Mrs. Kennedy greeting crowds at Love Field

Object number1989.100.0005.0017
Date11/22/1963
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer Eamon Kennedy
ObjectNegative (b&w)
Credit LineEamon Kennedy, photographer, Dallas 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 by a Dallas Times Herald photographer. This image shows the Kennedys, surrounded by Secret Service agents, shaking hands with the waiting crowd behind a chain link fence at Love Field. The images on this negative strip were taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Eamon Kennedy. There were three photographers at Love Field that day: John Mazziotta, Bob Jackson and Eamon Kennedy.
Curatorial Commentary
Helen Holmes, a PR executive with the Sam Bloom Agency in Dallas, handled media logistics for the president's visit on November 22, 1963.  In her 1993 oral history, she expressed how surprised she was that President and Mrs. Kennedy approached the fence to shake hands with the crowd.  "There had been talk that he might wave," she remembered, "but nobody really expected that he would wade into the crowd that way."  - Stephen Fagin, Curator