{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"38223"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Collection"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Ceramic figurine representing John F. Kennedy, Jr., at the famous moment when he saluted his father's casket at President Kennedy's funeral on Monday, November 25, 1963, which was also John Jr.'s third birthday. The figurine is labeled \"John-John\" and shows the little boy in a short maroon coat. The day of the funeral, John Jr.'s coat was actually light blue.\r\n\r\nThere is a gold foil \"Inarco Japan\" sticker on the bottom of the figurine. The following information is also on the bottom:\r\n\r\n\"(c) Inarco\r\nCleveland, Ohio\r\nE-1844\""},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2012.049.0003"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"One INARCO ceramic figurine of John F. Kennedy, Jr. at the famous moment when he saluted his father's casket at President Kennedy's funeral on Monday, November 25, 1963, which was also John Jr.'s third birthday. \r\n\r\nFigurine is the figure of a little boy with brown hair wearing a pink-ish red coat, white socks, and black shoes. This short coat is meant to resemble the one John, Jr. wore to his father's funeral; the day of the funeral, John, Jr.'s coat was actually blue. The figurine is in a position with the right hand raised to the forehead as if in salute and the left arm by the side. The figure is on a low-profile rounded white pedestal with the text John-John\u201d printed in black script along the front edge. The boy figurine is meant to represent John F. Kennedy, Jr. The figurine is hollow.\r\n\r\nThe underside of the base has the following text stamped in black glaze above two holes in the base:\r\n\"(c) INARCO\r\nCLEVELAND, OHIO\"; below the two holes: \"E-1844\".\r\nThere is also a black and gold foil \"INARCO Japan\" sticker on the bottom of the figurine that wraps into one of the holes in the base. \r\n\r\nFigurine has minimal stains on glaze from grime. Top of pedestal base is discolored from dirt. No chips, cracks, or crazing in glaze. (JM 11/02/2017)"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Ceramic"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/32992/full","displayOrder":"1","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"32992"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/50621/full","displayOrder":"2","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"50621"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/50625/full","displayOrder":"3","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"50625"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Ceramic figurine of John F. Kennedy, Jr., saluting"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Artifacts"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/32992/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["5.7150114300"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Collectibles","Pop Culture","Mourning","Funeral","Mourners","Kennedy, John F., Jr.","Inarco","Cleveland","Japan"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Collectible"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"circa 1964"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["6.0325120650"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["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 Collections","Three-year-old John F. Kennedy, Jr. saluting his father's casket, as captured by several still and moving photographers that Monday, November 25, was arguably the singular image that affected the nation and the world more profoundly than any other in a weekend filled with vivid and powerful imagery. Those who witnessed that moment live began to \"crumple as though struck,\" as described by William Manchester in \"The Death of a Preisdent.\" Cardinal Cushing, speaking eight months after the Kennedy funeral, recalled watching the young boy's salute: \"Oh God, I almost died.\" It was a moment that inspired poets, artists, musicians and sculptors, and it remains one of the most recognized images of the era. \r\n\r\nIn \"The Death of a President,\" Manchester writes of this moment: \"Somehow the mood and meaning of the day had reached the President's son. His elbow was cocked at precisely the right angle, his hand was touching the shock of hair, his left arm was rigidly at his side, his shoulders were squared and his chin in. His bearing was militant, and to see it in a three-year-old, with his bare legs stiff below his short coat, his knees dimpled and his blunt red shoes side by side--to hear the slow swell of the music, and recall how the President had idolized him--was almost insupportable.\" -- Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"66295"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"5 5/16 × 2 3/8 × 2 1/4 in. (13.5 × 6 × 5.7 cm)"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["13.4937769876"]}}]}