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Image of Senator Ralph Yarborough outside Parkland Hospital
Original black and white 35mm negative by a Dallas Morning News photographer. The image shows Senator Ralph Yarborough outside Parkland Hospital addressing members of the press on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. He is gesturing with one arm while speaking and looking slightly towards his right.
Image of Senator Ralph Yarborough outside Parkland Hospital
11/22/1963
Film
1 7/16 × 15/16 in. (3.6 × 2.4 cm)
Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1994.003.0012.0003
It is not clear which Dallas Morning News photographer took this image. Tom Dillard, Clint Grant, Joe Laird and Bill Winfrey are the photographers who were present when the photograph was taken. In his account, Clint Grant specifically listed seeing Senator Yarbrough and the hearse at Parkland. However, there is no definitive information to single out Grant as the photographer of this image. - Stephanie Allen-Givens, Collections and Exhibits Manager
The late Ralph Yarborough (1903-96) served as a U.S. senator from Texas from 1957 to 1971. As leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, he was politically at odds with both Vice President Johnson and Governor Connally by 1963. However, he was a key part of President Kennedy's Texas trip as the president tried to mend political fences among Texas Democrats and shore up support for his re-election campaign in 1964. Yarborough is seen in solemn, sometimes tearful conversation with journalists and dignitaries in numerous photographs taken outside of the emergency entrance to Parkland Memorial Hospital following the assassination. In his Warren Commission affidavit from July 10, 1964, Yarborough stated: "On arrival at the hospital, I told newsmen that three rifle shots had been fired. There was then no doubt in my mind that the shots were rifle shots, and I had neither then or now any doubts that any other shots were fired. In my opinion only three shots were fired." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of Senator Ralph Yarborough outside Parkland Hospital
Original black and white 35mm negative by a Dallas Morning News photographer. The image shows Senator Ralph Yarborough outside Parkland Hospital addressing members of the press on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. He is gesturing with one arm while speaking and looking slightly towards his right.
Image of Senator Ralph Yarborough outside Parkland Hospital
11/22/1963
Photographs
Dillard, Tom C.
Winfrey, Bill
Grant, Clint
Laird, Jr., Joe F.
Yarborough, Ralph
The Dallas Morning News
Parkland Hospital
Dallas
Film
1 7/16 × 15/16 in. (3.6 × 2.4 cm)
Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1994.003.0012.0003
It is not clear which Dallas Morning News photographer took this image. Tom Dillard, Clint Grant, Joe Laird and Bill Winfrey are the photographers who were present when the photograph was taken. In his account, Clint Grant specifically listed seeing Senator Yarbrough and the hearse at Parkland. However, there is no definitive information to single out Grant as the photographer of this image. - Stephanie Allen-Givens, Collections and Exhibits Manager
The late Ralph Yarborough (1903-96) served as a U.S. senator from Texas from 1957 to 1971. As leader of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, he was politically at odds with both Vice President Johnson and Governor Connally by 1963. However, he was a key part of President Kennedy's Texas trip as the president tried to mend political fences among Texas Democrats and shore up support for his re-election campaign in 1964. Yarborough is seen in solemn, sometimes tearful conversation with journalists and dignitaries in numerous photographs taken outside of the emergency entrance to Parkland Memorial Hospital following the assassination. In his Warren Commission affidavit from July 10, 1964, Yarborough stated: "On arrival at the hospital, I told newsmen that three rifle shots had been fired. There was then no doubt in my mind that the shots were rifle shots, and I had neither then or now any doubts that any other shots were fired. In my opinion only three shots were fired." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator