Title from caption on object: “Rides with Slain Husband's Body”
November 22, 1963
Artist, American, 1932 - 2017
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 14.8 × 23.3 cm (5 13/16 × 9 3/16 in.)
sheet: 20.5 × 25.4 cm (8 1/16 × 10 in.) -
Accession
2018.177.497
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Ebay.com); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
across bottom printed in image: (AND5) ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Nov. 22--RIDES WITH SLAIN HUSBAND’S BODY--Mrs. John F. Kennedy, her legs heavily / smudged, moves to enter an ambulance carrying the body of her slain husband tonight at Andrews Base near / Washington. Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy is beside her. Col. James Swindall [sic], presidential pilot, is at upper left. / The President’s plane brought the body to Washington from Dallas, where Kennedy was shot to death from ambush. / (AP Wirephoto) (rmb61945stf)1963; on verso, top center printed in black ink on applied newspaper inverted: [reproduction of image] / Mrs. Kennedy [circled in blue ink] Enters Ambulance in Washington / ... blood still smudges her legs as she accompanies body; by unknown hand, upper right in blue ink inverted: [illegible initials]; center left in blue ink circled and inverted: John F. / Kennedy / Assassination; center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular and obscured; by unknown hand, center right in blue ink circled and inverted: John F. Kennedy / Assassination; center right stamped in green ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: NOV 23 1963