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Image of the vice president's car in the motorcade on Lemmon Avenue

35mm color slide showing Vice President Lyndon Johnson's vehicle in the Kennedy motorcade on Lemmon Avenue. Seated in the rear of the car, from right to left, is Vice President Lyndon Johnson (wearing a hat and sunglasses), Lady Bird Johnson and Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough. The occupants in the front two seats, driver Hurchel Jacks of the Texas Department of Public Safety and U.S. Secret Service agent Rufus Youngblood, are largely obscured.

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Image of the vice president's car in the motorcade on Lemmon Avenue

Date:

11/22/1963

Dimensiones:

5,1 × 5,1 cm (2 × 2 pulg.)

Línea de crédito:

Colección Thomas Charles Geron Jr. Colección / The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Número de objeto:

2023.019.0001

Nota curatorial:

Thomas Charles Geron Jr. (1922-2021), a draftsman at a Dallas oil company in 1963, was an active amateur photographer. After his passing, daughter Cindy Lewis went through her father's collection of approximately 56,000 color slides and discovered two photos that he captured of the Kennedy motorcade on Lemmon Avenue, soon after making the turn onto Lemmon from Mockingbird Lane, on Noviembre 22, 1963. Cindy, a Dallas elementary school student at the time, recorded an oral history with the Museum in 2023. Her husband, David Lewis, who was attending school in Pampas, Texas, also recorded an oral history in 2023. We are grateful to Cindy for sharing this new perspective on the Kennedy motorcade nearly sixty years after the assassination. I'd also like to acknowledge researcher Randy Owen for his help identifying the location of this image on the motorcade route. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

Good photographs of Vice President Johnson's car, a 1964 steel grey Lincoln, are rare because bystanders focused so intently on the Kennedys, traveling two cars ahead with a Secret Service follow-up vehicle in between. A large number of motorcade spectators who have recorded oral histories with the Museum over the years admit that they paid no attention to the vice president's vehicle. Emerging nearly sixty years after the assassination, Thomas Geron's clear color image showing Vice President and Mrs. Johnson and Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough is quite remarkable. A Dallas Times Herald photo of the vice president's empty vehicle at Parkland Memorial Hospital, with driver Hurchel Jacks standing next to the driver's side door, can be seen here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/3446. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

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Image of the vice president's car in the motorcade on Lemmon Avenue

35mm color slide showing Vice President Lyndon Johnson's vehicle in the Kennedy motorcade on Lemmon Avenue. Seated in the rear of the car, from right to left, is Vice President Lyndon Johnson (wearing a hat and sunglasses), Lady Bird Johnson and Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough. The occupants in the front two seats, driver Hurchel Jacks of the Texas Department of Public Safety and U.S. Secret Service agent Rufus Youngblood, are largely obscured.

Detalles del objeto
Título del objeto:

Image of the vice president's car in the motorcade on Lemmon Avenue

Date:

11/22/1963

Condiciones:

Avenida Lemmon

Limusina

Comitiva

Viaje a Texas

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Johnson, Lady Bird

Yarborough, Ralph

Jacks, Hurchel D.

Youngblood, Rufus

Dimensiones:

5,1 × 5,1 cm (2 × 2 pulg.)

Línea de crédito:

Colección Thomas Charles Geron Jr. Colección / The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Número de objeto:

2023.019.0001

Nota curatorial:

Thomas Charles Geron Jr. (1922-2021), a draftsman at a Dallas oil company in 1963, was an active amateur photographer. After his passing, daughter Cindy Lewis went through her father's collection of approximately 56,000 color slides and discovered two photos that he captured of the Kennedy motorcade on Lemmon Avenue, soon after making the turn onto Lemmon from Mockingbird Lane, on Noviembre 22, 1963. Cindy, a Dallas elementary school student at the time, recorded an oral history with the Museum in 2023. Her husband, David Lewis, who was attending school in Pampas, Texas, also recorded an oral history in 2023. We are grateful to Cindy for sharing this new perspective on the Kennedy motorcade nearly sixty years after the assassination. I'd also like to acknowledge researcher Randy Owen for his help identifying the location of this image on the motorcade route. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

Good photographs of Vice President Johnson's car, a 1964 steel grey Lincoln, are rare because bystanders focused so intently on the Kennedys, traveling two cars ahead with a Secret Service follow-up vehicle in between. A large number of motorcade spectators who have recorded oral histories with the Museum over the years admit that they paid no attention to the vice president's vehicle. Emerging nearly sixty years after the assassination, Thomas Geron's clear color image showing Vice President and Mrs. Johnson and Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough is quite remarkable. A Dallas Times Herald photo of the vice president's empty vehicle at Parkland Memorial Hospital, with driver Hurchel Jacks standing next to the driver's side door, can be seen here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/3446. - Stephen Fagin, Curator