Oath for Johnson on Air Force One: President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in by Judge Sarah T. Hughes as his wife and Mrs. John F. Kennedy flank him in the cabin of Air Force One. The third installment of Look Magazine's serialization of William Manchester's book, "The Death of a President," this week tells of events aboard the plane after the assassination of President Kennedy. Others in background, from left, are Jack Valenti, Representative Albert Thomas (Democrat-Texas), and Representative Jack Brooks (Democrat-Texas).

This iconic press photograph is considered the most famous photo ever taken aboard Air Force One.

Donated to the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College by Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg on June 2, 2021.

Associated Press ID # 6311220484.

On recto: typewritten title and date.

On verso: Associated Press stamp.

Sheet: 7 1/4 x 9 5/8

Wire photographs were originally transmitted over phonelines, then later, by satellite. They were first used in the early 1920s. Associated Press became a leader with this. After pigment touch-ups, etc., the print is put into a drum (like a drum scanner). The image gets converted into audio tones that are transmitted. The tones are received and beamed onto photo-sensitive paper. Wire photographs are copies without originals---they are hybrid, transmitted objects. (Britt Salvesen, Curator and Department Head, Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 30-31, 2022)

This object has the following keywords:

• Air Force One
• Albert Thomas
• Assassinations
• Civil Rights Movements
• Death
• Hate
• Hate crimes
• Jack Brooks
• Jack Valenti
• Jacqueline Kennedy
• John Kennedy
• Kennedy Family
• Lady Bird Johnson
• Loss
• Lyndon Johnson
• Mourning
• Sarah T. Hughes
• Swearing in ceremonies

• Image Dimensions: 6 9/16 x 8 in. (16.67 x 20.32 cm)