In the mid-1830s Louis Daguerre and inventor Joseph-Nicephore Niépce developed a method to permanently capture images onto chemically treated plates (no negatives)
Níepce died but Daguerre kept working and perfected the process called “daguerreotype” in the late 1830s #POTUS 📷
Daguerre negotiated the rights to this innovative process with the French government in exchange for lifetime pensions for him and Níepce’s son. The French then gifted the process to the world
That’s it in a nutshell 😜
All caught up?
Let’s go to John Quincy Adams 🇺🇸 #POTUS
But before we get to John Quincy Adams 🇺🇸 we need to acknowledge that William Henry Harrison 🇺🇸 was actually the first President to be photographed!
A daguerreotype of him from Election Day 1841 has been lost to history (and would be 2 years older than the JQA picture) #POTUS
Ok - time for the John Quincy Adams 🇺🇸 part of the story!
According a March 1843 entry in John Quincy Adams’ diary, the session in the office of the photographer Philip Haas went like this: #POTUS ✍️📸
Here, in John Quincy Adams’ 🇺🇸 diary, he discusses the daguerreotype process from the perspective of the subject: #POTUS ✍️📸
John Quincy Adams’ 🇺🇸 photo session with Philip Haas produced three daguerreotypes - with only one surviving: the one we know today
JQA gifted that daguerreotype to Rep. Horace Everett (VT) whose descendant found it & cosigned it to @Sothebys
My series based on the stories behind some of the popular pictures, portraits, and moments of our Presidents
Today’s subject:
John F. Kennedy’s 🇺🇸 original casket
Enjoy the thread below ⬇️!
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@JFKLibrary
As most people know, John F. Kennedy 🇺🇸 was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas
After he was shot he was immediately driven to Parkland Hospital where he was pronounced dead
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No autopsy was performed on JFK’s 🇺🇸 body in Dallas, Texas
At the request of First Lady Jackie Kennedy the autopsy was to be done at Bethesda Naval Hospital (pictured) near Washington, DC, as JFK was a Navy veteran
Happy 150th Birthday to Herbert Hoover 🇺🇸 born #OTD 1874 in West Branch, Iowa - the first President born west of the Mississippi River.
Enjoy this Herbie thread!
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At 9 years old, Herbert Hoover 🇺🇸 and his 2 siblings became orphans when their mother died. Herbert ("Bertie") was sent to live in Oregon with his Uncle John and his siblings were sent elsewhere
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Herbert Hoover 🇺🇸 was in China’s Boxer Rebellion (1900)
With Chinese Boxer rebels attempting to expel foreigners, Hoover organized building barricades while under attack
His wife Lou helped the wounded.
They're credited w/saving many Chinese children caught in the chaos
Stories behind some of the popular pictures, portraits, and moments of our Presidents
Today’s subject:
Herbert Hoover 🇺🇸 Meets
Adolf Hitler
Enjoy the thread below ⬇️!
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Like many people, I was just as shocked when I learned that a meeting took place between the recently defeated ex-President Herbert Hoover 🇺🇸 and the fledgling leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler
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I suppose some context would be appropriate…
The year was 1938 and Herbert Hoover 🇺🇸 was traveling through Europe to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the end of “The Great War” (WWI)
Every now and then I like to highlight characters in history who crossed paths with American Presidents in some way, shape or form.
Today…
I’d like to talk **briefly** about a lawyer named Lambdin Milligan…
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Milligan was an Ohio boy who ended up studying law, eventually passing the bar in Ohio. He was actually classmates with Edwin Stanton! Stanton would go onto be Secretary of War under Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸
But I digress…keep reading!
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Milligan moved to Indiana to continue his law career. There he involved himself in heavy “states rights” politics, and followed guys like John Calhoun and Martin Van Buren 🇺🇸
Milligan eventually identified as a “Copperhead”—a Democrat opposing the Civil War & Lincoln
While it can be argued the Vietnam War touched many Presidents - it can be argued further that it impacted the presidency - and health - of Lyndon Baines Johnson 🇺🇸 the hardest
“I guess we’ve got no choice, but it scares the death out of me. I think everybody’s going to think, ‘we’re landing the Marines, we’re off to battle.’”
- Lyndon Baines Johnson 🇺🇸
6 March 1965.
On 8 March 1965 the first combat troops touched the beaches of Danang