Image of vehicles leaving Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth
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Image of vehicles leaving Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth
Original 35mm black and white negative image taken by Fort Worth Press chief photographer Gene Gordon at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas on Jueves, Noviembre 21, 1963. The image shows two cars lined up between crowds of people. The negative is on Kodak Tri-X Pan Film. This image is number 43 on the negative strip (2014.087.0027).
Image of vehicles leaving Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth
11/21/1963
Película
2,4 × 3,7 cm (15/16 × 1 7/16 pulg.)
Colección Gene Gordon/Museo de la Sexta Planta en Dealey Plaza
2014.087.0027.0002
The Kennedys arrived at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth a little after 11PM on Jueves, Noviembre 21, 1963, having already visited San Antonio and Houston earlier that day. Gene Gordon, chief photographer at the Fort Worth Press, arrived early--by his estimation between 9PM and 10PM--to cover the presidential party. Since Carswell was not usually open to civilian visitors, this was a special occasion as an estimated 5,500 people gathered to welcome President and Mrs. Kennedy in near darkness. As Air Force One approached Fort Worth, the president likely noticed more than sixty buildings downtown were illuminated by amber lights. That lit skyline is visible in a few of Gene Gordon's photos taken at Carswell. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Gene Henderson Gordon (1929 - 2023) got his first job as a professional photographer at the age of 19 in 1948 at the Fort Worth Press, a Scripps-Howard newspaper launched in 1921. Less than five years later, Gordon was promoted to chief photographer, a position that he still held at the time of the Kennedy assassination in 1963. Gordon covered the Kennedys' arrival at Carswell Air Force Base on the night on Noviembre 21st and, a few hours later, President Kennedy's parking lot speech at the Hotel Texas and the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast in the hotel's ballroom. Following the assassination, he covered the funeral of Lee Harvey Oswald at Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth on Noviembre 25th. Gene Gordon remained at the Fort Worth Press until the paper ceased publication in 1975, after which he became a staff photographer, later chief photographer, at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He retired in 1997 after half a century as a professional photographer in Fort Worth. We were honored to record oral history interviews with Gene in 2003 and 2015. He also participated in two programs at The Sixth Floor Museum, including this Living History educational program in 2017: Living History with Gene Gordon (youtube.com). The Museum acquired his collection of Kennedy-related negatives and prints in 2014 and 2016. Gene Gordon passed away on Marzo 16, 2023. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of vehicles leaving Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth
Original 35mm black and white negative image taken by Fort Worth Press chief photographer Gene Gordon at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas on Jueves, Noviembre 21, 1963. The image shows two cars lined up between crowds of people. The negative is on Kodak Tri-X Pan Film. This image is number 43 on the negative strip (2014.087.0027).
Image of vehicles leaving Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth
11/21/1963
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Fotografías
Fotógrafo
Periódicos
Gordon, Gene
Prensa de Fort Worth
Base aérea de Carswell
Fort Worth
Película
2,4 × 3,7 cm (15/16 × 1 7/16 pulg.)
Colección Gene Gordon/Museo de la Sexta Planta en Dealey Plaza
2014.087.0027.0002
The Kennedys arrived at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth a little after 11PM on Jueves, Noviembre 21, 1963, having already visited San Antonio and Houston earlier that day. Gene Gordon, chief photographer at the Fort Worth Press, arrived early--by his estimation between 9PM and 10PM--to cover the presidential party. Since Carswell was not usually open to civilian visitors, this was a special occasion as an estimated 5,500 people gathered to welcome President and Mrs. Kennedy in near darkness. As Air Force One approached Fort Worth, the president likely noticed more than sixty buildings downtown were illuminated by amber lights. That lit skyline is visible in a few of Gene Gordon's photos taken at Carswell. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Gene Henderson Gordon (1929 - 2023) got his first job as a professional photographer at the age of 19 in 1948 at the Fort Worth Press, a Scripps-Howard newspaper launched in 1921. Less than five years later, Gordon was promoted to chief photographer, a position that he still held at the time of the Kennedy assassination in 1963. Gordon covered the Kennedys' arrival at Carswell Air Force Base on the night on Noviembre 21st and, a few hours later, President Kennedy's parking lot speech at the Hotel Texas and the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce breakfast in the hotel's ballroom. Following the assassination, he covered the funeral of Lee Harvey Oswald at Rose Hill Cemetery in Fort Worth on Noviembre 25th. Gene Gordon remained at the Fort Worth Press until the paper ceased publication in 1975, after which he became a staff photographer, later chief photographer, at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He retired in 1997 after half a century as a professional photographer in Fort Worth. We were honored to record oral history interviews with Gene in 2003 and 2015. He also participated in two programs at The Sixth Floor Museum, including this Living History educational program in 2017: Living History with Gene Gordon (youtube.com). The Museum acquired his collection of Kennedy-related negatives and prints in 2014 and 2016. Gene Gordon passed away on Marzo 16, 2023. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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