Image of Secret Service agents beside limousine at Parkland Hospital
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Image of Secret Service agents beside limousine at Parkland Hospital
Original 35mm black and white negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. This image shows a group of Secret Service agents and police officers standing beside the presidential limousine outside the emergency entrance to Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963. The hard top has been put on the convertible limousine.The images on this negative strip were taken by one of two Dallas Times Herald staff photographers at Parkland Hospital that day. There were two Dallas Times Herald photographers at Parkland who stayed for the press conference which appears in the last frames on this negative strip - Eamon Kennedy and John Mazziotta. One of them took these photos. Bob Jackson, who was at Parkland earlier, was not present at the press conference.
Image of Secret Service agents beside limousine at Parkland Hospital
11/22/1963
Film
15/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)
Dallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1989.100.0016.0003
The shooting in Dealey Plaza turned the president’s limousine into a crime scene. Had it been left intact, evidence collected from it may have eventually answered some questions about the assassination. In order to prevent onlookers from seeing inside the car, Secret Service agents installed the hard-shell top – already in place in this picture – which was usually kept in the trunk when the convertible was being used without a cover. Some agents also used buckets and sponges to begin cleaning the interior of the car. After the assassination, the limousine (also known as X-100) was stripped down, rebuilt and put back into presidential service, where it was used occasionally by Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter. Although other presidential parade cars were built in 1968 and 1972, the limousine used in Dallas stayed in service until 1977. Upon its retirement, it was sent to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, where it is today exhibited as the “Kennedy” limousine even though very little remains of the car that was in Dallas on November 22, 1963. – Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of Secret Service agents beside limousine at Parkland Hospital
Original 35mm black and white negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. This image shows a group of Secret Service agents and police officers standing beside the presidential limousine outside the emergency entrance to Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963. The hard top has been put on the convertible limousine.The images on this negative strip were taken by one of two Dallas Times Herald staff photographers at Parkland Hospital that day. There were two Dallas Times Herald photographers at Parkland who stayed for the press conference which appears in the last frames on this negative strip - Eamon Kennedy and John Mazziotta. One of them took these photos. Bob Jackson, who was at Parkland earlier, was not present at the press conference.
Image of Secret Service agents beside limousine at Parkland Hospital
11/22/1963
Limousine
Police
Photographs
Kennedy, Eamon
Mazziotta, John
Parkland Hospital
Dallas Times Herald
Secret Service
Dallas
Film
15/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)
Dallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1989.100.0016.0003
The shooting in Dealey Plaza turned the president’s limousine into a crime scene. Had it been left intact, evidence collected from it may have eventually answered some questions about the assassination. In order to prevent onlookers from seeing inside the car, Secret Service agents installed the hard-shell top – already in place in this picture – which was usually kept in the trunk when the convertible was being used without a cover. Some agents also used buckets and sponges to begin cleaning the interior of the car. After the assassination, the limousine (also known as X-100) was stripped down, rebuilt and put back into presidential service, where it was used occasionally by Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter. Although other presidential parade cars were built in 1968 and 1972, the limousine used in Dallas stayed in service until 1977. Upon its retirement, it was sent to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, where it is today exhibited as the “Kennedy” limousine even though very little remains of the car that was in Dallas on November 22, 1963. – Stephen Fagin, Curator
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