Photo of Dealey Plaza with flowers the morning after the assassination
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Photo of Dealey Plaza with flowers the morning after the assassination
Color photographic print possibly taken by a Dallas Morning News photographer. The image shows flowers and mourners in Dealey Plaza on the morning after Kennedy's assassination on November 23, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. The photo was taken looking down Elm Street towards the Texas School Book Depository building. The Hertz sign on top of The Texas School Book Depository building reads the temperature as 52 degrees.
Photo of Dealey Plaza with flowers the morning after the assassination
11/23/1963
Paper, Photo
8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1994.003.0159
It is possible that this photo was taken by Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard, but there are no stamps on the reverse of the print verifying this. - Stephanie Allen-Givens, Collections and Exhibits Manager
The printed sign beneath the large white cross in this photograph read in full: "In Prayerful Memory of Our Beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Men of St. Bernard's Church." St. Bernard of Clairvaux Catholic Church is still located in the Little Forest Hills section of Dallas near White Rock Lake on the site where it was originally established in 1947. The founding pastor, Monsignor John M. Wiewell, was still at St. Bernard's at the time of the assassination, serving the church from 1947 to 1968. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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
Photo of Dealey Plaza with flowers the morning after the assassination
Color photographic print possibly taken by a Dallas Morning News photographer. The image shows flowers and mourners in Dealey Plaza on the morning after Kennedy's assassination on November 23, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. The photo was taken looking down Elm Street towards the Texas School Book Depository building. The Hertz sign on top of The Texas School Book Depository building reads the temperature as 52 degrees.
Photo of Dealey Plaza with flowers the morning after the assassination
11/23/1963
Dealey Plaza
Elm Street
Hertz sign
Flowers
Memorials
Mourners
Photographs
Dillard, Tom C.
Dal-Tex Building
The Dallas Morning News
Texas School Book Depository
Dallas
Paper, Photo
8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1994.003.0159
It is possible that this photo was taken by Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard, but there are no stamps on the reverse of the print verifying this. - Stephanie Allen-Givens, Collections and Exhibits Manager
The printed sign beneath the large white cross in this photograph read in full: "In Prayerful Memory of Our Beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Men of St. Bernard's Church." St. Bernard of Clairvaux Catholic Church is still located in the Little Forest Hills section of Dallas near White Rock Lake on the site where it was originally established in 1947. The founding pastor, Monsignor John M. Wiewell, was still at St. Bernard's at the time of the assassination, serving the church from 1947 to 1968. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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
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