Kent Barker Collection / The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

January 2, 1960

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Image of a damaged stop sign at the southeast corner of Tenth and Patton Streets

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Image of a damaged stop sign at the southeast corner of Tenth and Patton Streets

Original 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald and United Press International photographer Darryl Heikes. This image shows a damaged stop sign on the southeast corner of Tenth Street and Patton Street in Oak Cliff, near the scene of Officer J.D. Tippit's murder on November 22, 1963.

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Object title:

Image of a damaged stop sign at the southeast corner of Tenth and Patton Streets

Date:

11/22/1963

Terms:

Oak Cliff

Photographs

Heikes, Darryl

Tippit, J.D.

Dallas Times Herald

United Press International (UPI)

Dallas
Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

15/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)

Credit line:

Darryl Heikes, photographer, Dallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1989.100.0022.0011

Curatorial Note:

This damaged stop sign was unconnected to the shooting of Officer J.D. Tippit. Interviewed by the Museum in 2008, photographer Darryl Heikes could not remember why he took this particular photograph. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

This stop sign was damaged during a minor traffic accident the morning of the assassination, several hours before Officer Tippit was shot. - Gary Mack, Curator

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Image of a damaged stop sign at the southeast corner of Tenth and Patton Streets

Original 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald and United Press International photographer Darryl Heikes. This image shows a damaged stop sign on the southeast corner of Tenth Street and Patton Street in Oak Cliff, near the scene of Officer J.D. Tippit's murder on November 22, 1963.

Object Details
Object title:

Image of a damaged stop sign at the southeast corner of Tenth and Patton Streets

Date:

11/22/1963

Terms:

Oak Cliff

Photographs

Heikes, Darryl

Tippit, J.D.

Dallas Times Herald

United Press International (UPI)

Dallas

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

15/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)

Credit line:

Darryl Heikes, photographer, Dallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1989.100.0022.0011

Curatorial Note:

This damaged stop sign was unconnected to the shooting of Officer J.D. Tippit. Interviewed by the Museum in 2008, photographer Darryl Heikes could not remember why he took this particular photograph. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

This stop sign was damaged during a minor traffic accident the morning of the assassination, several hours before Officer Tippit was shot. - Gary Mack, Curator

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