D. Jordan Wilson
President Shot Dead
ca. 1964
8 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.
Gelatin silver print
Purchased on The Charina Endowment Fund.
2020.10
Inscriptions/Markings
Verso: stamp, "Photo by Pix Incorporated," "Please Credit: D. Jordan Wilson - PIX"; in pen, "Portraits Kennedy, John F."; in type, "New York newspapers used headlines to announce President John F. Kennedy's assassination, with the largest type at their disposal. Although radio and television carried the news first, successive editions of newspapers throughout the afternoon and night were grasped out of hands of newsvendors".
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