Image of a floral tribute in Dealey Plaza after the assassination, Slide #24
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Image of a floral tribute in Dealey Plaza after the assassination, Slide #24
Original 35mm color slide taken by amateur photographer Jerry Mainer. Image shows a floral tribute in Dealey Plaza on the afternoon of November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of President Kennedy. Image features a circular arrangement with red flowers and ribbons in the middle and white gladioli around them.
Image of a floral tribute in Dealey Plaza after the assassination, Slide #24
11/23/1963
Film
2 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)
Jerry Mainer Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2001.004.0020
The slides are numbered sequentially starting at #4 and going through #36, skipping #20, for a total of 32 slides. They were donated to the Museum like this, and it is unknown what happened to the missing slides from this sequence. - Stephanie Allen-Givens, Collections and Exhibits Manager
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
Although none of the floral arrangements or wreaths could be saved, the Dallas Park Department collected notecards and other written tributes that were left in Dealey Plaza following the assassination. Today, the Dallas Public Library has four binders of these cards in their holdings. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of a floral tribute in Dealey Plaza after the assassination, Slide #24
Original 35mm color slide taken by amateur photographer Jerry Mainer. Image shows a floral tribute in Dealey Plaza on the afternoon of November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of President Kennedy. Image features a circular arrangement with red flowers and ribbons in the middle and white gladioli around them.
Image of a floral tribute in Dealey Plaza after the assassination, Slide #24
11/23/1963
Flowers
Dealey Plaza
Memorials
Tributes
Photographs
Dallas
Film
2 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)
Jerry Mainer Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2001.004.0020
The slides are numbered sequentially starting at #4 and going through #36, skipping #20, for a total of 32 slides. They were donated to the Museum like this, and it is unknown what happened to the missing slides from this sequence. - Stephanie Allen-Givens, Collections and Exhibits Manager
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
Although none of the floral arrangements or wreaths could be saved, the Dallas Park Department collected notecards and other written tributes that were left in Dealey Plaza following the assassination. Today, the Dallas Public Library has four binders of these cards in their holdings. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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