Image of Texas School Book Depository after the assassination, Slide #27

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Original 35mm color slide by amateur photographer Jerry Mainer. Image shows the Texas School Book Depository building and floral tributes left in Dealey Plaza on the afternoon of November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of President Kennedy. The image includes floral tributes and an American flag with mourners lined up behind a short concrete wall.

Object Details

Object title:

Image of Texas School Book Depository after the assassination, Slide #27

Date:

11/23/1963

Terms:

Dealey Plaza

Mourners

Flowers

Memorials

Photographs

Flag

American flag

Texas School Book Depository

Dallas

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

2 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)

Credit line:

Jerry Mainer Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2001.004.0023

Curatorial Note:

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