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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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The assassination of JFK: the shots seen round the world – in pictures

JFK Art: John F. Kennedy reaching out to the crowd in Fort Worth, November 22, 1963
Hotel Texas: John F Kennedy is mobbed by an eager Fort Worth crowd on the morning of 22 November 1963 Photograph: Gene Gordon
JFK Art: Mrs. J. Lee (Ruth Carter) Johnson III and Mrs. Ted (Lucille) Weiner
Hotel Texas: Ruth Carter Johnson, left, and Lucille Weiner transport Pablo Picasso's Angry Owl to the hotel
Photograph: Fort Worth Star-Telegram Coll
JFK Art: Angry Owl
Hotel Texas: Angry Owl, by Pablo Picasso, was one of the many pieces of art loaned by Fort Worth collectors to decorate the Kennedy's hotel room, suite 850 of Hotel Texas Photograph: © 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society
JFK Art: Henry Moore,Three Points
Hotel Texas: Henry Moore's sculpture Three Points was also loaned for use in suite 850
Photograph: The Henry Moore Foundation
JFK Art: Living Area, Suite 850, Hotel Texas
Hotel Texas: the living area at JFK's presidential suite included works, from left, by Lyonel Feininger (Manhattan II), Franz Kline, (study for Accent Grave) and Morris Graves (Spirit Bird)
© Amon Carter Museum of American Art
JFK Art: Lost in a Snowstorm
Hotel Texas: Charles Marion Russell’s Lost in a Snowstorm was one of the more unexpected choices curators made for the president's suite
© Amon Carter Museum of American Art
JFK Art: Manhattan II, 1940
Hotel Texas: Manhattan II by Lyonel Feininger was installed at the hotel
© Artists Rights Society/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
JFK Art: President Kennedy speaks to the crowd outside the Hotel Texas
Hotel Texas: President Kennedy speaks to the crowd outside his hotel in Fort Worth, Texas Photograph: William Allen/Dallas Times Herald Collection
JFK Art: Second bedroom, Suite 850, Hotel Texas
Hotel Texas: Swimming by Thomas Eakins, left, and Charles Russell's Lost in a Snowstorm Photograph: Byron Scott/Amon Carter Museum of American Art
JFK Art: Swimming, 1885
Hotel Texas: a closer view of Swimming by Thomas Eakins
© Amon Carter Museum of American Art
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