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JFK SHOT, in the "New York Post"
Image Not Available for JFK SHOT, in the "New York Post"

JFK SHOT, in the "New York Post"

Artist (American, born 1936)
DateNovember 23, 1963
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensionssight: 23.4 x 15.1 cm (9 3/16 x 5 15/16 in.)
frame: 43.3 x 33.8 cm (17 1/16 x 13 5/16 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Howard G. Davis, III A.K.A. David Davis
Object number2011.197
Label TextOn the afternoon of the assassination of President Kennedy, McCoy took his camera out in midtown Manhattan. He photographed the reaction of stunned New Yorkers, some weeping on the street. The photographer chronicled the flag lowered to half-staff at Rockefeller Center, and an array of tragic headlines on street news kiosks. This sequence of McCoy’s photographs provides an intriguing glimpse of dynamic and practical American life in the early 1960s, while revealing the humanity of his fellow New Yorkers.ProvenanceDavid Davis
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