Title from caption on object: “President Kennedy Slumps into the Arms of His Wife...”, November 22, 1963

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 27 × 33.4 cm (10 5/8 × 13 1/8 in.)

sheet: 28.3 × 35.5 cm (11 1/8 × 14 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.665

Artists / Makers

Mary Moorman (artist) American, born 1932

United Press International (publisher)

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Inscription

across top printed in image: DAP112301-11/23/63-DALLAS: President Kennedy slumps into the arms of his wife immediately / a sniper's bullet slammed into his head while riding in a motorcade. Photo was made on / a polaroid camera by a woman watching the parade. UPI TELEPHOTO; crop marks center left and center right in orange crayon; crop marks lower left in blue ink; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in blue ink underlined: Pres. John F. Kennedy [circled] / Assassination; upper center in graphite circled and crossed out: SLUMP; center left in graphite crossed out: 5 col. 6" / 151 SUN; center stamped in red ink: SUN TIMES / NOV 24 1963; center stamped in green ink: PROPERTY OF / NEWSPAPER DIVISION / FIELD ENTERPRISES, INC.; center UPI copyright stamp in black ink; center right stamped in red ink: SUN TIMES / DEC 29 1963; by unknown hand, center right in graphite circled: 1; lower center in graphite: 5 col. x 5 / car + Dallas / [illegible printing notes]

Provenance

Field Enterprises, Chicago. Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary