Title from caption on object: “Gun Which Killed President Kennedy”
November 22, 1963
Artist, American, born 1939
William Allen
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 25.6 × 19.1 cm (10 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
sheet: 25.9 × 19.1 cm (10 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.) -
Accession Number
2018.177.520
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
vertical along right edge printed in image: [DAL]LAS, TEX., NOV. 22--GUN WHICH KILLED PRESIDENT KENNEDY--An; on verso, top right printed in black ink on applied label perpendicular: KENNEDY, JOHN F. -- ASSASSINATION -- / GENERAL; upper left stamped in black ink perpendicular: 11-22-63u; by unknown hand, center left in red ink perpendicular crossed out: DALLAS; center left printed in black ink perpendicular crossed out in red ink: KENNEDY, JOHN F. * ASSASSINATION; by unknown hand, center right in blue ink perpendicular: Gun Only