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Photo, Print, Drawing 1 minute prayer silence in court with Eisenhower's death

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About this Item

Title

  • 1 minute prayer silence in court with Eisenhower's death

Summary

  • Group courtroom portrait sketch of Sirhan Sirhan, seated at a table looking up, while the security guards and lawyers bow their heads in silence as the death of former president Dwight D. Eisnenhower is announced, during Sirhan Sirhan's trial for the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Howard Brodie covered the trial for CBS.

Names

  • Brodie, Howard, 1915-2010, artist

Created / Published

  • [19]69 Mar. 28.

Headings

  • -  Sirhan, Sirhan Bishara,--1944---Trials, litigation, etc.--California--Los Angeles
  • -  Eisenhower, Dwight D.--(Dwight David),--1890-1969--Commemoration
  • -  Judicial proceedings--California--Los Angeles--1960-1970
  • -  Prayer--1960-1970

Format Headings

  • Drawings--American--Color--1960-1970.

Genre

  • Drawings--American--Color--1960-1970

Notes

  • -  Caption label from exhibit Drawing Justice: Sirhan Reacts Inappropriately. Born into an Arab Christian family in Jerusalem's West Bank, Sirhan Sirhan initially blamed Israel for his actions in assassinating New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy on June 5, 1968. Artist Howard Brodie captured his violent outbursts and strange reactions throughout the trial, including the moment when the court security personnel standing watch over him and his lawyer Grant Cooper bowed their heads in prayer at the news of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower's death. Brodie portrays Sirhan's nervous movements in an otherwise still room.
  • -  Inscribed upper left: security in bowed prayer.
  • -  Inscribed upper right: Sirhan eyes open nervous smile - hand up and down to face (not clapping).
  • -  Inscribed lower right: lawyers - judge, jury etc in prayer.
  • -  Signed lower center: Brodie '69.
  • -  Gift; Howard Brodie; 1971; (DLC/PP-1971:159).
  • -  Exhibited: "Drawing Justice" at the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C., April - October 2017.

Medium

  • 1 drawing : lithographic crayon and inpriomia color ; sheet 35.6 x 42.6 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • DRWG/US - Brodie, no. 118 (B size) [P&P]

Repository

Digital Id

  • ppmsca 51002 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.51002

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2004662345

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-51002 (digital file from original drawing)

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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  • Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information, see "Howard Brodie," https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/435_brod.html
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-51002 (digital file from original drawing)
  • Call Number: DRWG/US - Brodie, no. 118 (B size) [P&P]
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Brodie, Howard, Artist. 1 minute prayer silence in court with Eisenhower's death. Los Angeles California, 1969. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2004662345/.

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Brodie, H. (1969) 1 minute prayer silence in court with Eisenhower's death. Los Angeles California, 1969. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2004662345/.

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Brodie, Howard, Artist. 1 minute prayer silence in court with Eisenhower's death. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2004662345/>.