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Photo printing plate with two images of grieving people

Copper-colored metal photo printing plate with two images of citizens reacting to the assassination. The images are reversed to reproduce correctly on paper. The image on the left side of the plate shows two crying children and a man wearing glasses. The image on the right shows Senator Ralph Yarborough wiping his eye. The two images are separated by a deep groove. Labeled "Grief" in grease pencil on back. The left side of the plate is slightly taller than the right side.The image on the left was taken by Dallas Times Herald photographer Eamon Kennedy and is represented in the Museum's Dallas Times Herald Collection by the original negative. The photographer of the image on the right is unknown.

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Photo printing plate with two images of grieving people

Date:

11/23/1963

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Metal

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4 13/16 × 7 3/16 × 1/16 in. (12.2 × 18.3 × 0.2 cm)

Credit line:

Jack H. and Jane C. McNairy Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2003.061.0003

Curatorial Note:

Donor Jack McNairy was a high school student in 1963 and worked part-time at the Dallas Times Herald. Within days of the Kennedy assassination, McNairy noticed a stack of recently-used photographic printing plates that had been discarded in a bin to be melted down and recycled. Sensing that these photographic plates had historic value, McNairy saved as many as he could and kept them for four decades before donating them to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. McNairy also recorded an oral history with the Museum in 2003. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

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Photo printing plate with two images of grieving people

Copper-colored metal photo printing plate with two images of citizens reacting to the assassination. The images are reversed to reproduce correctly on paper. The image on the left side of the plate shows two crying children and a man wearing glasses. The image on the right shows Senator Ralph Yarborough wiping his eye. The two images are separated by a deep groove. Labeled "Grief" in grease pencil on back. The left side of the plate is slightly taller than the right side.The image on the left was taken by Dallas Times Herald photographer Eamon Kennedy and is represented in the Museum's Dallas Times Herald Collection by the original negative. The photographer of the image on the right is unknown.

Object Details
Object title:

Photo printing plate with two images of grieving people

Date:

11/23/1963

Terms:

Mourners

Assassination

Yarborough, Ralph

Kennedy, Eamon

Dallas Times Herald

Dallas

Medium:

Metal

Dimensions:

4 13/16 × 7 3/16 × 1/16 in. (12.2 × 18.3 × 0.2 cm)

Credit line:

Jack H. and Jane C. McNairy Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2003.061.0003

Curatorial Note:

Donor Jack McNairy was a high school student in 1963 and worked part-time at the Dallas Times Herald. Within days of the Kennedy assassination, McNairy noticed a stack of recently-used photographic printing plates that had been discarded in a bin to be melted down and recycled. Sensing that these photographic plates had historic value, McNairy saved as many as he could and kept them for four decades before donating them to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. McNairy also recorded an oral history with the Museum in 2003. - Stephen Fagin, Curator