Caroline Kennedy Salutes Father's Casket
Artist
Unknown
Publisher
AP
CultureAmerican
DateNovember 25, 1963
MediumFacsimile print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 7 1/8 x 8 5/8 in. (18.1 x 21.9 cm)
Overall: 9 x 11 1/4 in. (22.9 x 28.6 cm)
Overall: 9 x 11 1/4 in. (22.9 x 28.6 cm)
InscribedBelow the image is printed: (WX22 WASHINGTON, NOV. 24--SHE LOST HER FATHER--This is a candid picture of Caroline Kennedy, who will be six years old in a few days, as she stood beside her father's coffin in the rotunda of the Capitol today. (AP WIREPHOTO) (SEE AP WIRE STORY) (rw 11945atf) 1963
Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol. B. Frank
Object number99.6.2
Not on view
DescriptionThis image is an ink on paper facsimile print. This is an image of Caroline Kennedy saluting the casket of her father during the funeral of President John F. Kennedy.Label TextCaroline Kennedy Salutes Father's Casket, November 25, 1963 Facsimile print Purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank 99.6.2 This image of the five-year-old Caroline Kennedy paying a last respect to her father forms part of a large documentation on President Kennedy's historic funeral. Transmitted worldwide via the newswire services and made to be reproduced in newspapers, this is one of the few original facsimiles still to be found. The original print was coded and sent over the telephone line to a worldwide network of wire service offices from which newspapers would then reproduce directly. While the image gives evidence to the importance of photography in mass media and instant news by mass communication, its warm soft tone reaches further in accentuating the solemnity of the moment. Edited By: GLY Edited Date: 11/10/2003Exhibition History"History of Photography," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va, June 15, 1999 - January 2, 2000. "Silver Images: The Photography Collection at 25," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., November 5, 2003 - August 2004.
