Title from caption on object: “This Photo Sequence Was Taken as the Late President Kennedy Was Assassinated...”, November 22, 1963

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 25.1 × 33.4 cm (9 7/8 × 13 1/8 in.)

sheet: 28.2 × 35.5 cm (11 1/8 × 14 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.667

Artists / Makers

Orville Nix (artist) American, 1911 - 1972

United Press International (publisher)

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Inscription

across top printed in image: NXP1404338-12/7/'63- DALLAS, TEX.: This photo sequence, which has just become available, was / taken as the late President Kennedy was assassinated here 11/22. Seconds before he is shot, / President Kennedy talks to his wife (1). He is hit (2). Mrs. Kennedy puts her arms around / him (3). Mrs. Kennedy climbs to the car trunk to seek aid and Secret Service man Clinton / J. Hill jumps on the car to help (4). Hill pushes Mrs. Kennedy back into the car (5) and then / shields her and the President with his body. The car speeds off to the hospital (6). This black and white sequence is taken from 8mm color film. UPI TELEPHOTO; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in blue ink underlined: John F. Kennedy [circled] / Assassination; upper right, center, and lower left UPI copyright stamps in black ink; center left stamped in blue ink: PROPERTY OF / NEWSPAPER DIVISION / DEC. 1963 / FIELD ENTERPRISES, INC.

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary