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JOHN F. KENNEDY`S FINAL HOUR IN PHOTOGRAPHS

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JOHN F. KENNEDY`S FINAL HOUR IN PHOTOGRAPHS
<b>287. JOHN F. KENNEDY'S FINAL HOUR IN PHOTOGRAPHS </b>An incredible, excessively rare collection of seventeen first-generation unpublished photographs chronicling John F. Kennedy's final hour in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The photographs, shot sequentially, each measure 3 1/2" x 5" b/w, and show, in order: Air Force One taxiing at Love Airfield in Dallas, the Kennedys and Johnsons debarking from the aircraft, the party greeting a receiving line on the tarmac and mingling with the assembled crowd, the interior of Kennedy's limousine, Governor and Mrs. Connally and the Kennedys entering the limousine, and the last image, a rather ironic view of both couples in the moving limousine with Kennedy rubbing the upper-right part of his scalp, exactly the spot hit by an assassin's bullet minutes later! The final two photographs, taken hours later, show two views of the Texas School Book Depository from which it is said Oswald fired the shots that killed the President. The original set of these photos were developed in February, 1964, with this first-generation set made two months later. The photos are accompanied by a copy of a notarized letter of provenance of the son of the photographer, who states that his father had likely obtained access to the President through his association with Dallas policemen. Interestingly, he adds: "<i>...I believe my father knew several of the people within Dallas' underground. I was also told that one of my late uncle's wives was an acquaintance of Jack Ruby...</i>". It is our understanding that the negatives for these photos have been long lost, and that only this set and the original set still exist. A very rare and fine set of images, in very fine condition.<b> $1,000-1,500</b>