Imagen del Presidente Kennedy hablando en el desayuno de Fort Worth

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Negativo original en blanco y negro de 35 mm con imagen tomada por el fotógrafo jefe de Fort Worth Press, Gene Gordon, del desayuno de la Cámara de Comercio de Fort Worth celebrado en el Hotel Texas de Fort Worth, Texas, el viernes 22 de noviembre de 1963. Esta imagen muestra una gran multitud de personas sentadas en filas de mesas dispuestas, y fotógrafos de prensa a lo largo del pasillo tomando fotografías. El negativo es una película Kodak Tri-X Pan. Esta imagen es la número 8.

Detalles del objeto

Título del objeto:

Imagen del Presidente Kennedy hablando en el desayuno de Fort Worth

Date:

11/22/1963

Condiciones:

Fotografías

Discursos

Fotógrafo

Pulse

Periódicos

Desayuno en Fort Worth

Viaje a Texas

Kennedy, John F.

Gordon, Gene

Hotel Texas

Prensa de Fort Worth

Cámara de Comercio de Fort Worth

Fort Worth

Medio:

Película

Dimensiones:

3,5 × 3,8 cm (1 3/8 × 1 1/2 pulg.)

Línea de crédito:

Colección Gene Gordon/Museo de la Sexta Planta en Dealey Plaza

Número de objeto:

2014.087.0091

Nota curatorial:

Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, Noviembre 8, 2023 through Septiembre 28, 2024.

Construction began on the historic Hotel Texas in downtown Fort Worth in 1920, with a two-story addition and ballroom completed in 1963. On the night of Noviembre 21, 1963, the Kennedys stayed in Suite 850. The hotel, renamed the Sheraton-Fort Worth in 1968, was renovated in 1970 in order to serve as the official hotel for the newly-constructed Fort Worth Convention Center. This renovation, however, did not last long. The hotel was gutted and extensively renovated once again in 1979, reopening in 1981 as the Hyatt Regency Fort Worth. The name subsequently changed to the Radisson Fort Worth in 1995 and, in 2006, to the Hilton Fort Worth (which is still its name as of 2024). The hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Julio 3, 1979. - 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