Kent Barker Collection / The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

January 2, 1960

JFK ENTERS THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE

Senator Kennedy announces his candidacy for President of the United States.

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35mm color slide of floral tributes at Dealey Plaza

35mm color slide showing floral tributes left in Dealey Plaza after the assassination. A red/pink floral sign reading "JFK" is in the center of the photograph with a large red and white floral cross in the right foreground. The Bryan pergola is visible in the background and the corner of a white and red sign is in the front left. Cardboard carrier has "Kodachrome Transparency, Processed by Kodak" printed on one side and "11, Dec 63D, .00078442" printed on the other side.The floral cross in the foreground was left in Dealey Plaza by the family of Tom Russell and is pictured in 2004.011.0003 Original slide (emulsion faces subject, not viewer)For months following the assassination, people would leave flowers on the Grassy Knoll honoring the memory of John F. Kennedy.

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35mm color slide of floral tributes at Dealey Plaza

Date:

11/25/1963

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Photographs

Tributes

Flowers

Memorials

Dealey Plaza
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Film

Dimensions:

2 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)

Credit line:

Robert Russell Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1999.034.0012

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35mm color slide of floral tributes at Dealey Plaza

35mm color slide showing floral tributes left in Dealey Plaza after the assassination. A red/pink floral sign reading "JFK" is in the center of the photograph with a large red and white floral cross in the right foreground. The Bryan pergola is visible in the background and the corner of a white and red sign is in the front left. Cardboard carrier has "Kodachrome Transparency, Processed by Kodak" printed on one side and "11, Dec 63D, .00078442" printed on the other side.The floral cross in the foreground was left in Dealey Plaza by the family of Tom Russell and is pictured in 2004.011.0003 Original slide (emulsion faces subject, not viewer)For months following the assassination, people would leave flowers on the Grassy Knoll honoring the memory of John F. Kennedy.

Object Details
Object title:

35mm color slide of floral tributes at Dealey Plaza

Date:

11/25/1963

Terms:

Photographs

Tributes

Flowers

Memorials

Dealey Plaza

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

2 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)

Credit line:

Robert Russell Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1999.034.0012

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