CSPAN3 John F. Kennedys Life In Photos July 31, 2017
My name is larry shiller, the Smithsonian American Art Museum allows me to the guest curator of this exhibit on jfk. I photographed a lot of politicians. I started with Richard Nixon, Governor Brown in california and john f. Kennedy and many of the events he was present at. Why this exhibit here in the American Art Museum at this time . It is the centennial of his birth 100 years ago on may 29. How do you put an exhibit like this together . First you start with a few researchers. We collected 34,000 photographs of jfk and his family. It took about six months and became the basis of a very impo...