Kent Barker Collection / The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

January 2, 1960

JFK ENTERS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE

Senator Kennedy announces his candidacy for President of the United States.

Listen to an excerpt from the oral history interview with Jacques Lowe, the Kennedys' personal photographer for many years, by clicking "Find out more."

Image: Kennedy's presidential campaign button features his face on a background of red, white and blue stripes.

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Blocker film

8mm home movie, Dealey Plaza, taken after November 1965. Digitzed 2018. A budding 15yo cinematographer (Blocker) visited Dealey Plaza in late 1965/early 1966 and took lots of interesting zoomy color footage around the TSBD, including behind the stockade fence. Warning: may cause seasickness.

Object Details
Object title:

Blocker film

Date:

circa 1965

Terms:

Films

Texas School Book Depository

Stockade fence

Dealey Plaza

Hertz sign

Home movie

Object type:

Films

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

7/16 × 2 7/8 in. (1.1 × 7.3 cm)

Credit line:

Gordon Blocker Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2016.059.0002

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Blocker film

8mm home movie, Dealey Plaza, taken after November 1965. Digitzed 2018. A budding 15yo cinematographer (Blocker) visited Dealey Plaza in late 1965/early 1966 and took lots of interesting zoomy color footage around the TSBD, including behind the stockade fence. Warning: may cause seasickness.

Object Details
Object title:

Blocker film

Date:

circa 1965

Terms:

Films

Texas School Book Depository

Stockade fence

Dealey Plaza

Hertz sign

Home movie

Object type:

Films

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

7/16 × 2 7/8 in. (1.1 × 7.3 cm)

Credit line:

Gordon Blocker Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2016.059.0002

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