Image of a man in Dallas on the evening of the Kennedy assassination
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Image of a man in Dallas on the evening of the Kennedy assassination
Original 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald photographer Bill Beal. This image shows an unidentified man near the Baker Hotel on Commerce Street in downtown Dallas holding the latest edition of the Dallas Times Herald, the city's afternoon newspaper, with headlines announcing the death of President Kennedy.
Image of a man in Dallas on the evening of the Kennedy assassination
11/22/1963
Film
1 7/16 x 15/16 in. (3.6 x 2.4 cm)
Bill Beal, photographer, Dallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1989.100.0032.0002
Bill Beal took this and several other photographs while on a walk downtown that evening with women's news editor Vivian Castleberry. A professional friend from Canada had asked Castleberry to write a brief story on the mood in Dallas on the evening of the assassination. She began her story with the line, "Dallas is a ghost town tonight." - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of a man in Dallas on the evening of the Kennedy assassination
Original 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald photographer Bill Beal. This image shows an unidentified man near the Baker Hotel on Commerce Street in downtown Dallas holding the latest edition of the Dallas Times Herald, the city's afternoon newspaper, with headlines announcing the death of President Kennedy.
Image of a man in Dallas on the evening of the Kennedy assassination
11/22/1963
Mourners
Newspapers
Downtown Dallas
Photographs
Beal, Bill
Dallas Times Herald
Dallas
Film
1 7/16 x 15/16 in. (3.6 x 2.4 cm)
Bill Beal, photographer, Dallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1989.100.0032.0002
Bill Beal took this and several other photographs while on a walk downtown that evening with women's news editor Vivian Castleberry. A professional friend from Canada had asked Castleberry to write a brief story on the mood in Dallas on the evening of the assassination. She began her story with the line, "Dallas is a ghost town tonight." - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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