15221
Oct 22 1990
Jacqueline Kennedy
(Onassis)
Translations from colour transparencies made by Camera Press for YL. Taken June 14, 1957. Envelope No. 11526
Sittings
sitting #
date
Name
Role, Location, Notes
11678
Sep 5 1958
Mr. William Kennedy Jr.
President, North Carolina Mutual Insurance Co.
Ebony Magazine series. For PIX Publishing
Photographs
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John F. Kennedy
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Jacqueline Kennedy
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Robert F. Kennedy
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Robert F. Kennedy
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John and Jacqueline Kennedy
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Edward Kennedy, John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy
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John F. Kennedy
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John and Jacqueline Kennedy
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Jacqueline Kennedy
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Moira Shearer
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Robert Frost
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Maya Plisetskaya
Legacy
Jacqueline Kennedy
Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was born on this day, July 28, in 1929.
John F. Kennedy Civil Rights Address
On June 11, 1963, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech declaring segregation as morally wrong.
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy addressed his supporters in Los Angeles shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, and upon leaving the address, he was shot three times.
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was born on this day, May 29, in 1917.
Jacqueline Kennedy
Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died on this day, May 19, in 1994.
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on November 20, 1925.
Robert F. Kennedy
On this day, June 6, in 1968, 42 year-old presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was shot dead in Los Angeles. He had just won the California presidential primaries in the 1968 election.
John F. Kennedy
On this day, November 8, in 1960, John F. Kennedy became the youngest man ever to be elected president of the United States.
John and Jacqueline Kennedy
On this day, September 12, 1953, Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy of Massachusetts married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.
LIFE Magazine: John F. Kennedy Cover, 1961
This LIFE magazine cover from August, 1961, featured a Karsh portrait of the 35th President of the United States. Karsh made this photograph of John F. Kennedy in 1960, when Kennedy was still a senator.
John F. Kennedy’s 100th Birthday
John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917. The 35th President of the United States, 1961-1963, was the youngest man elected to the office. The JFK Library is commemorating his centennial during the month of May.
LIFE Magazine: John F. Kennedy Cover, 1963
From the archives at LIFE Magazine, the memorial edition for John F. Kennedy after his death in 1963 featuring a portrait by Karsh from 1960.
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, on July 16, 1969.
Inspire Like Churchill
In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, the International Churchill Society has launched a global competition inspired by the famous speeches of Britain’s wartime Prime Minister.
McGeorge Bundy
“Mac” Bundy served as United States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
TIME: 100 Women of the Year
TIME magazine has created a list of 100 Women of the Year.
Presidents’ Day
Today is the Presidents’ Day federal holiday in the United States. Karsh photographed twelve United States Presidents, from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton.
Ruth Draper
In 2019, 25 recordings were added to the United States Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry. One of them is Ruth Draper.
Bill Clinton
The 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton, was born on this day, August 19, in 1946.
Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was launched by a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969, and the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle landed on the moon on July 20, 1969.
The International Spy Museum
The Spy Museum, in Washington, DC, is the only public museum in the United States solely dedicated to espionage.
I. M. Pei, 1917-2019
Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming “I. M.” Pei has died.
Pyramide du Louvre
I. M. Pei’s glass and metal pyramid, the Pyramide du Louvre, is thirty years old.
“American Portraits” at the Rockwell Museum
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s traveling Karsh exhibition, “American Portraits”, opens at the Rockwell Museum in Corning, NY, on February 8.
Robert McNamara
On this day, November 29, in 1967, Robert S. McNamara announced that he would resign as Secretary of Defense and become president of the World Bank.
Supreme Court Justices
This week the United States will seat a new supreme court justice. Yousuf Karsh photographed several North American justices, from the 1930s to the 1970s.
“American Portraits” in Dayton, Ohio
On June 23, 2018, the Dayton Art Institute unveiled “Yousuf Karsh: American Portraits,” on loan from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
On this day, January 22, in 1973, former US President Lyndon Baines Johnson died of a heart attack at the age of 64.
The Warren Commission
On this day, November 29, in 1963, one week after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Warren Commission. Leading the investigation into the assassination was Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hammarskjold was the youngest person to ever have held the United Nations Secretary-General post, and is one of only four people to be awarded a posthumous Nobel Prize.
I. M. Pei’s 100th Birthday
Architect I. M. Pei had his 100th birthday on April 26, 2017.
Exhibitions
Yousuf Karsh: Icons of the 20th Century
Mona Bismarck American Center for Art & Culture, Paris, 2014
Karsh 100: A Biography in Images
Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles, California, 2010
The Most Famous People in the World: Karsh 100
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, 2010