Apr 12, 2018 - Sale 2473

Sale 2473 - Lot 112

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(KENNEDY, JOHN F.) Passenger list for the flight returning from Dallas after the assassination. One typescript page, 10 1/2 x 8 inches, addressed to Captain Stoughton and signed in ink by Sergeant C. Chance; 2 horizontal folds, light wrinkling at edges. Not examined outside of frame. [Dallas, TX], 22 November [1963]

Additional Details

Stoughton had been aboard Air Force One to photograph Johnson's emergency inauguration, but left the plane before it departed from Dallas so he could have the historic images developed immediately for the press. It seems likely that after leaving the plane, Stoughton asked for a copy of the passenger list to aid in identifying the people he had photographed. An interesting artifact from the assassination's immediate aftermath. Provenance: sold by Stoughton's estate at a Bonhams sale, 9 December 2010 as part of lot 6200, to the consignor.