Image of the Kennedys greeting the crowd at Love Field

Object number1989.100.0006.0001exp34

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 the Kennedys greeting the 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. John Mazziotta appears in some of the pictures on this strip so the photographer must have been either Kennedy or Jackson. Mazziotta is visible in this picture, in the bottom right corner, holding a camera in his hands, standing in front of a Dallas police officer. This negative strip was double-exposed, meaning the film did not advance through the camera correctly and images overlapped. Recent digital scans have allowed the Museum to isolate individual images on this negative strip for the first time. Both the left and right sides of this image overlap with images preceding and following it on the negative strip.

Curatorial Commentary

Visible over President Kennedy's right shoulder is Time-Life correspondent Hugh Sidey. A journalist for many years, Sidey (1927-2005) covered Presidents Eisenhower to Clinton and was with Kennedy at his Vienna Summit with Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. - Stephen Fagin, Curator