Governor John Connally’s Suit (c. 1964)

Duration: 0:00:40

Year Published: c. 1964

Format: 16mm

Sound: silent

Description: In the (former) archives reading room of the Lorenzo de Zavala Building in Austin, Texas State Archivist John Day displays the suit John Connally was wearing when he was shot on the day of the Kennedy assassination. The exact date or occasion for the film is unknown. In late 1963 the Connallys donated the suit to the Texas State Archives, where it was on public display through the winter of 1964. The suit has been part of multiple investigations into the assassination, first possibly in April 1964 when the Connallys testified before the Warren Commission, and then again in the late 1970s or early 1980s when it was subpoenaed to undergo new bullet trajectory tests. It still resides in the safe keeping of the Texas State Archives.