A Photographer's Story: Bob Jackson and the Kennedy Assassination  

November 5, 2009

Thursday 10:00am

Detail:

On Friday, November 22, 1963, newspaper photographer Bob Jackson was assigned to photograph President John F. Kennedy's visit to Dallas for The Dallas Times Herald.  What began as an exciting assignment for the young photographer became one of the largest, most tumultuous news events of the twentieth century—with Jackson, camera in hand, present at the center of much of the activity.  More than four decades later his black and white images provide a unique personal perspective of the events at Love Field, along the motorcade route, at Parkland Memorial Hospital and at Dallas police headquarters, where he photographed Jack Ruby fatally shooting accused presidential assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.

Opening to the public February 17, 2009, A Photographer's Story: Bob Jackson and the Kennedy Assassination is on display in the seventh floor gallery through July 31, 2010.