JFK Photos published despite loss of negatives in Twin Towers attack

They were so historically valuable insurers couldn't even price them: 40,000 negatives of John F. Kennedy and his family taken by his personal photographer, Jacques Lowe.

Lowe kept the negatives secure for decades, finally depositing them in a bank vault at the World Trade Center. When the towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001, just months after Lowe's death, the vault became part of the rubble.

Miraculously, the vault was found. But it was empty when Lowe's daughter, Thomasina, went to claim it early last year.

"I was bewildered. I couldn't make sense of what I was seeing,'' she recalled. "I was grateful that my dad hadn't had to bear this; it would have destroyed him.''

But thanks to new technologies, Lowe's work was not completely gone.

http://www.salon.com/books/wire/2003/10/23/jfk/index.html

I wonder who has the negatives. You know SOMEONE does.

even though they were still secure in the vault.

Seems the heat got through somehow. :shrug:

I'm glad they were able to still publish something though.

not a trace left, no fumes or residue. you know what they say, nothing like a good fire to help things vanish.

It's like stealing a Van Gogh masterpiece; it's not like anyone wouldn't recognize them!:o

As for the book, it sounds like it's a very moving rembrance.:-)

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