Image of crowds gathered at flower memorials in Dealey Plaza
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Image of crowds gathered at flower memorials in Dealey Plaza
Original 35mm color slide taken by Dallas resident Dorothy Murphy showing a crowd gathered at flower memorials in Dealey Plaza after the assassination of President Kennedy on November 23, 1963. Elm Street is on the left side of the image with the Texas School Book Depository and Dal-Tex buildings visible in the background.
Image of crowds gathered at flower memorials in Dealey Plaza
11/23/1963
Film
2 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)
Dorothy and Carter Murphy Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2001.064.0032
Dealey Plaza was transformed into a memorial shrine during the weekend of the assassination as mourners left wreaths, floral displays and notecards in memory of President Kennedy. One plaza visitor, George Reid, recalled in his Museum oral history: "People were starting to leave things and then, by Sunday morning, there was quite a bit of stuff there--quite a lot of flowers.... And people were coming down there, and people were standing there crying. People just bawling and just talking to each other, hugging each other, you know. It was an emotional scene that day." - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of crowds gathered at flower memorials in Dealey Plaza
Original 35mm color slide taken by Dallas resident Dorothy Murphy showing a crowd gathered at flower memorials in Dealey Plaza after the assassination of President Kennedy on November 23, 1963. Elm Street is on the left side of the image with the Texas School Book Depository and Dal-Tex buildings visible in the background.
Image of crowds gathered at flower memorials in Dealey Plaza
11/23/1963
Dealey Plaza
Crowds
Flowers
Elm Street
Photographs
Mourners
Texas School Book Depository
Dal-Tex Building
Dallas
Film
2 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)
Dorothy and Carter Murphy Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2001.064.0032
Dealey Plaza was transformed into a memorial shrine during the weekend of the assassination as mourners left wreaths, floral displays and notecards in memory of President Kennedy. One plaza visitor, George Reid, recalled in his Museum oral history: "People were starting to leave things and then, by Sunday morning, there was quite a bit of stuff there--quite a lot of flowers.... And people were coming down there, and people were standing there crying. People just bawling and just talking to each other, hugging each other, you know. It was an emotional scene that day." - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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Image of flower arrangements in Dealey Plaza after the assassination, Slide #8
11/23/1963
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June 1964
Color slide #71 of through-block view of memorials at the north pergola in Dealey Plaza
June 1964
Color slide #79 of a man at the memorial area in Dealey Plaza
November 1968
