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.

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

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Photograph of an FBI agent reenacting the Kennedy assassination

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Photograph of an FBI agent reenacting the Kennedy assassination

Black and white photograph showing FBI agent Robert Frazier in the sixth floor southeast corner window of the Texas School Book Depository aiming a high-powered rifle down Elm Street in Dealey Plaza. A camera has been attached to the stock of the rifle and the rifle is attached to a tripod. This copy of a photograph was part of FBI Special Agent Lyndal Shaneyfelt's Kennedy assassination file; Shaneyfelt assisted in the FBI investigations of the assassination conducted on behalf of the Warren Commission in 1964.

Object Details
Object title:

Photograph of an FBI agent reenacting the Kennedy assassination

Date:

05/23/1964 - 05/24/1964

Terms:

Rifles

Photographs

Re-enactment

Assassination

Investigations

Frazier, Robert

Texas School Book Depository

Warren Commission

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Dallas
Medium:

Paper

Dimensions:

8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)

Credit line:

Lyndal L. Shaneyfelt Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2004.037.0069

Curatorial Note:

This image was made during the May 1964 FBI re-creation in Dealey Plaza to measure angles and distances relative to the location of the Kennedy limousine as shown in the Zapruder film of the assassination. - Gary Mack, Curator

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Photograph of an FBI agent reenacting the Kennedy assassination

Black and white photograph showing FBI agent Robert Frazier in the sixth floor southeast corner window of the Texas School Book Depository aiming a high-powered rifle down Elm Street in Dealey Plaza. A camera has been attached to the stock of the rifle and the rifle is attached to a tripod. This copy of a photograph was part of FBI Special Agent Lyndal Shaneyfelt's Kennedy assassination file; Shaneyfelt assisted in the FBI investigations of the assassination conducted on behalf of the Warren Commission in 1964.

Object Details
Object title:

Photograph of an FBI agent reenacting the Kennedy assassination

Date:

05/23/1964 - 05/24/1964

Terms:

Rifles

Photographs

Re-enactment

Assassination

Investigations

Frazier, Robert

Texas School Book Depository

Warren Commission

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Dallas

Medium:

Paper

Dimensions:

8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)

Credit line:

Lyndal L. Shaneyfelt Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2004.037.0069

Curatorial Note:

This image was made during the May 1964 FBI re-creation in Dealey Plaza to measure angles and distances relative to the location of the Kennedy limousine as shown in the Zapruder film of the assassination. - Gary Mack, Curator

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