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Photograph of the Texas School Book Depository shortly after shots were fired

Black and white photograph showing the south facade of the Texas School Book Depository building on Elm Street in Dealey Plaza. Taken by chief photographer at The Dallas Morning News, Tom C. Dillard, moments after shots were fired. Dillard was riding in a press car in the presidential motorcade.Only the top five floors of the building are visible. A corner of the Hertz sign on the roof is visible on the southeast corner of the roof. The building fire escape can be seen on the right side of the image.A corner of a box is visible in the open sixth floor corner window; there are two men visible in the open fifth floor windows - Bonnie Ray Williams on the left and Harold Norman on the right. Both were Texas School Book Depository employees.There is another man visible in the fifth floor window to the left of Williams and Norman.On the back of the photograph in the lower right corner a black rubber stamp has been applied that reads, "PHOTO BY TOM DILLARD".

Object Details
Object title:

Photograph of the Texas School Book Depository shortly after shots were fired

Date:

11/22/1963

Medium:

Paper, Photo

Dimensions:

8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)

Credit line:

Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1994.003.0109

Curatorial Note:

Tom Dillard, chief photographer at The Dallas Morning News, was traveling in Camera Car #3 in the Dallas parade, eight vehicles behind the presidential limousine. Seated behind Dillard in the car was his friend and professional competitor, Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bob Jackson. When the assassination took place, as their vehicle made its way toward the Houston and Elm intersection with the Texas School Book Depository in front of them, Jackson saw a rifle extended from the southeast corner window of the Depository's sixth floor. Jackson's camera was out of film, but upon hearing his friend remark that he saw a rifle, Tom Dillard raised his Leica camera and took this haunting black and white photograph of the Depository. No rifle is visible, but Depository employees Harold Norman, James Jarman, Jr. and Bonnie Ray Williams can be seen on the fifth floor. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

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Photograph of the Texas School Book Depository shortly after shots were fired

Black and white photograph showing the south facade of the Texas School Book Depository building on Elm Street in Dealey Plaza. Taken by chief photographer at The Dallas Morning News, Tom C. Dillard, moments after shots were fired. Dillard was riding in a press car in the presidential motorcade.Only the top five floors of the building are visible. A corner of the Hertz sign on the roof is visible on the southeast corner of the roof. The building fire escape can be seen on the right side of the image.A corner of a box is visible in the open sixth floor corner window; there are two men visible in the open fifth floor windows - Bonnie Ray Williams on the left and Harold Norman on the right. Both were Texas School Book Depository employees.There is another man visible in the fifth floor window to the left of Williams and Norman.On the back of the photograph in the lower right corner a black rubber stamp has been applied that reads, "PHOTO BY TOM DILLARD".

Object Details
Object title:

Photograph of the Texas School Book Depository shortly after shots were fired

Date:

11/22/1963

Terms:

Windows

Sniper's perch

Photographer

Assassination

Witnesses

Photographs

Williams, Bonnie Ray

Norman, Harold

Dillard, Tom C.

Texas School Book Depository

The Dallas Morning News

Dallas

Medium:

Paper, Photo

Dimensions:

8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)

Credit line:

Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1994.003.0109

Curatorial Note:

Tom Dillard, chief photographer at The Dallas Morning News, was traveling in Camera Car #3 in the Dallas parade, eight vehicles behind the presidential limousine. Seated behind Dillard in the car was his friend and professional competitor, Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bob Jackson. When the assassination took place, as their vehicle made its way toward the Houston and Elm intersection with the Texas School Book Depository in front of them, Jackson saw a rifle extended from the southeast corner window of the Depository's sixth floor. Jackson's camera was out of film, but upon hearing his friend remark that he saw a rifle, Tom Dillard raised his Leica camera and took this haunting black and white photograph of the Depository. No rifle is visible, but Depository employees Harold Norman, James Jarman, Jr. and Bonnie Ray Williams can be seen on the fifth floor. - Stephen Fagin, Curator