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Rudy and Vera Clauss Film

Rudy and Vera Clauss Film

Object number2018.006.0039
Date11/22/1963 - 11/24/1963
ClassificationsFilms
Photographer
Photographer
ObjectFilm, 8mm
Credit LineRudy and Vera Clauss Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumFilm, Plastic, Cardboard
DimensionsGauge: 8mm
Collections
  • "On Assignment: Dallas Times Herald 1963"
  • Home Movies
  • Dallas Motorcade
  • All Online Objects
  • Dallas Love Field
DescriptionOriginal color 8mm home movie of President and Mrs. Kennedy's arrival at Love Field on November 22, 1963, filmed by Rudy and Vera Clauss. Later the Clausses went to Dealey Plaza to film the Texas School Book Depository and the mourners and flowers. The Love Field footage shows a number of noted journalists waiting for the arrival of the president, including Jim Lehrer. The film shows the Kennedys deplaning and then walking right up close and past the photographer, moving quickly. Following that is a brief sequence showing Lady Bird Johnson smiling as she passes by the crowds at the Love Field fence line behind the Kennedys. The film also shows President Johnson getting into his car for the motorcade, and the camera captures many of the follow up cars driving away behind the presidential limousine as the motorcade starts.
Curatorial Commentary
This object is featured in the Museum's special exhibit, "On Assignment: Dallas Times Herald 1963," which opened on April 29, 2026.
The man wearing the trench coat, standing on the left side behind the man in the center of the frame is Eamon Kennedy, a staff photographer at the Dallas Times Herald in 1963. On the weekend of the Kennedy assassination, he captured images at Dallas Love Field, Parkland Memorial Hospital, the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff and Dallas police headquarters. He later covered the 1964 Jack Ruby trial and the Warren Commission's visit to Dallas.

As a longtime friend of the Museum, he recorded several oral history interviews and programs. His interview from May 2014 can be viewed on the Museum’s online collection database here: Eamon Kennedy Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.

Other objects related to Mr. Kennedy, including several of his images, may be found here: Thesaurus – Vocabularies – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger