Image of the Texas School Book Depository building
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Image of the Texas School Book Depository building
Original 35mm color slide taken by amateur photographers Rudy and Vera Clauss showing the Texas School Book Depository building in Dallas, TX on Saturday, November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of President Kennedy. Several vehicles crowd both Houston Street and Elm Street while a crowd of people is barely visible in Dealey Plaza.
Image of the Texas School Book Depository building
11/23/1963
Cardboard, Film
2 × 2 in. (5.1 × 5.1 cm)
Rudy and Vera Clauss Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2018.006.0017
In this photograph taken the day after the assassination, the left side of the southeast corner window is raised on the sixth floor of the Depository building. In another photograph in this series from the same day, the left side is closed though the right side has been opened. Investigators and news media accessed the sixth floor during the assassination weekend, and a number of photographs - as well as news film - were taken looking out onto Dealey Plaza from the southeast corner window. Isadore Bleckman of Fox Movietone News, for example, recalls visiting the sixth floor of the Depository on Saturday (the day this amateur photo was taken): "Yeah, we came up here, and they let me shoot through the window where he was, and they showed the cardboard boxes that were stacked around [where] he camouflaged himself.... I looked out that window and I thought to myself... yeah, I could hit something moving like that, but I wouldn't have the nerve or the stomach or the anything to do something." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of the Texas School Book Depository building
Original 35mm color slide taken by amateur photographers Rudy and Vera Clauss showing the Texas School Book Depository building in Dallas, TX on Saturday, November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of President Kennedy. Several vehicles crowd both Houston Street and Elm Street while a crowd of people is barely visible in Dealey Plaza.
Image of the Texas School Book Depository building
11/23/1963
Photographs
Dealey Plaza
Houston Street
Elm Street
Texas School Book Depository
Dallas
Cardboard, Film
2 × 2 in. (5.1 × 5.1 cm)
Rudy and Vera Clauss Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2018.006.0017
In this photograph taken the day after the assassination, the left side of the southeast corner window is raised on the sixth floor of the Depository building. In another photograph in this series from the same day, the left side is closed though the right side has been opened. Investigators and news media accessed the sixth floor during the assassination weekend, and a number of photographs - as well as news film - were taken looking out onto Dealey Plaza from the southeast corner window. Isadore Bleckman of Fox Movietone News, for example, recalls visiting the sixth floor of the Depository on Saturday (the day this amateur photo was taken): "Yeah, we came up here, and they let me shoot through the window where he was, and they showed the cardboard boxes that were stacked around [where] he camouflaged himself.... I looked out that window and I thought to myself... yeah, I could hit something moving like that, but I wouldn't have the nerve or the stomach or the anything to do something." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
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