Title from caption on object: "New President Takes Oath"

November 22, 1963

Cecil Stoughton

Artist, American, 1920 - 2008

Associated Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 16.8 × 21.4 cm (6 5/8 × 8 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 17.8 × 23.1 cm (7 × 9 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.208.17

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jo Tartt, Jr., Warrenton, VA; NGA purchase, 2015.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, top right in graphite: 3000; upper center Associated Press copyright stamp in black ink; center printed in black ink on applied paper: L15967 / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / (ONE IN A SERIES OF PHOTOS HIGHLIGHTING / 1963) / NEW PRESIDENT TAKES OATH / LYNDON B. JOHNSON IS SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT / OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE CABIN OF A / PLANE IN DALLAS, TEX., NOV. 22, JOHNSON / TOOK THE OATH JUST HOURS AFTER PRESIDENT / JOHN KENNEDY WAS ASSASSINATED. AT RIGHT / IS KENNEDY'S WIDOW, JACQUELINE. AT LEFT / IS JOHNSON'S WIFE, LADYBIRD. ADMINISTERING / THE OATH IS JUDGE SARAH T. HUGHES OF THE / FEDERAL COURT. / IFY 620P 12/11/63 / WA LDS TYO MLA; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite perpendicular: Photo by Cecil Stoughton

Wikidata ID

Q64145734

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