Image of a woman outside Parkland Hospital the day of the assassination
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Image of a woman outside Parkland Hospital the day of the assassination
Original 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Eamon Kennedy. This image shows Wilda Atkinson standing next to her daughter Kathey Atkinson (far right, head bowed in prayer) outside of Parkland Hospital the day of the assassination.
Image of a woman outside Parkland Hospital the day of the assassination
11/22/1963
Film
15/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)
Eamon Kennedy, photographer, Dallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1989.100.0013.0001
Wilda Atkinson and twelve-year-old daughter Kathey saw President and Mrs. Kennedy arrive at Dallas Love Field. As they were leaving the airport later that morning, the Atkinsons learned that the president had been shot. Wilda decided to drive straight to the hospital. On the way she told her daughter, as Kathey recalled in her oral history, "We're going to stand outside his window and wave at him and let him know that Dallas cares--and that we love him." In this photograph, and the subsequent image in this series which shows Kathey in tearful prayer, the Atkinsons are reacting to word they received from a Catholic priest that the president had died. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of a woman outside Parkland Hospital the day of the assassination
Original 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Eamon Kennedy. This image shows Wilda Atkinson standing next to her daughter Kathey Atkinson (far right, head bowed in prayer) outside of Parkland Hospital the day of the assassination.
Image of a woman outside Parkland Hospital the day of the assassination
11/22/1963
Mourners
Photographs
Kennedy, Eamon
Atkinson, Kathey
Dallas Times Herald
Parkland Hospital
Dallas
Film
15/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)
Eamon Kennedy, photographer, Dallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1989.100.0013.0001
Wilda Atkinson and twelve-year-old daughter Kathey saw President and Mrs. Kennedy arrive at Dallas Love Field. As they were leaving the airport later that morning, the Atkinsons learned that the president had been shot. Wilda decided to drive straight to the hospital. On the way she told her daughter, as Kathey recalled in her oral history, "We're going to stand outside his window and wave at him and let him know that Dallas cares--and that we love him." In this photograph, and the subsequent image in this series which shows Kathey in tearful prayer, the Atkinsons are reacting to word they received from a Catholic priest that the president had died. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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