Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-1A-6-63
President Lyndon B. Johnson takes the oath of office aboard Air Force One at Love Field in Dallas, Texas, following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Left to right: Assistant Press Secretary, Malcolm Kilduff (holding dictating machine, partially out of frame); media liaison, Jack Valenti; Judge Sarah T. Hughes (administering oath); Representative Albert Thomas (Texas); Secretary to President Johnson, Marie Fehmer (mostly hidden in back); First Lady Lady Bird Johnson; Dallas Police Chief, Jesse Curry (face hidden by President Johnson’s raised hand); President Johnson; President Kennedy’s personal secretary, Evelyn Lincoln (mostly hidden); Representative Homer Thornberry of Texas (behind Mrs. Lincoln); former first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy; White House Secret Service agents, Roy Kellerman and Thomas “Lem” Johns (both standing in doorway); Mrs. Kennedy’s Press Secretary, Pamela Turnure (partially hidden in back); Representative Jack Brooks (Texas); Deputy Director of Public Affairs for the Peace Corps, Bill Moyers (in back); President Kennedy’s physician, Admiral Dr. George G. Burkley (on edge of frame).