Image of Oswald's body being taken to the Parkland Hospital morgue
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Image of Oswald's body being taken to the Parkland Hospital morgue
Original 120mm black and white negative taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. Armed police and Dallas County Medical Examiner Earl Rose (at far right, wearing glasses) escort Lee Harvey Oswald's body to the morgue at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas on Sunday, November 24, 1963. Oswald died of a gunshot wound. A crowd of reporters and photographers looks on.
Image of Oswald's body being taken to the Parkland Hospital morgue
11/24/1963
Film
2 1/2 × 2 3/8 in. (6.4 × 6 cm)
The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history
2014.080.0277
The Dallas police officer in the background, holding a shotgun, is W.E. "Rusty" Robbins, who had worked crowd control on Main Street during the Kennedy motorcade. Robbins shared several stories, including his memories of this moment outside the Parkland Hospital morgue, during a Living History program at The Sixth Floor Museum in 2016. A recording of that program can be seen on the Museum's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9kT4PaMuNE. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of Oswald's body being taken to the Parkland Hospital morgue
Original 120mm black and white negative taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. Armed police and Dallas County Medical Examiner Earl Rose (at far right, wearing glasses) escort Lee Harvey Oswald's body to the morgue at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas on Sunday, November 24, 1963. Oswald died of a gunshot wound. A crowd of reporters and photographers looks on.
Image of Oswald's body being taken to the Parkland Hospital morgue
11/24/1963
Photographs
Photographer
Police
Morgue
Firearms
Oswald's corpse
Rose, Earl F.
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Robbins, Weldon E. "Rusty"
Parkland Hospital
The Dallas Morning News
Dallas
Film
2 1/2 × 2 3/8 in. (6.4 × 6 cm)
The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history
2014.080.0277
The Dallas police officer in the background, holding a shotgun, is W.E. "Rusty" Robbins, who had worked crowd control on Main Street during the Kennedy motorcade. Robbins shared several stories, including his memories of this moment outside the Parkland Hospital morgue, during a Living History program at The Sixth Floor Museum in 2016. A recording of that program can be seen on the Museum's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9kT4PaMuNE. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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