Image of a large group of motorcade spectators on Main Street
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Image of a large group of motorcade spectators on Main Street
35mm black and white image on Kodak film that was taken by Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard of a large group of bystanders observing the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The white streaks seen on the left side of the photograph appear on the original negative and are also visible on right side of the previous image on the negative strip, 2014.080.1046.0001.
Image of a large group of motorcade spectators on Main Street
03/06/1964 - 03/07/1964
Film
15/16 × 1 5/16 in. (2.4 × 3.3 cm)
The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history
2014.080.1046.0002
Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 8, 2024.
Although there were two Dallas Morning News photographers in the Kennedy motorcade, we know with certainty that this particular image was captured by chief photographer Tom Dillard thanks to other images on the same negative strip. Shortly after snapping this image of enthusiastic bystanders on Main Street, Dillard - riding in Camera Car #3 - took wide shots showing the view in front of and behind his vehicle in the parade. Image 2014.080.1046.0005 of his forward view clearly shows his Dallas Morning News colleague Clint Grant, who was riding in Camera Car #2 along with White House photographer Cecil Stoughton and others. Another occupant of Camera Car #2, Art Rickerby of Life Magazine, can be easily identified from behind since he wore a distinctive light-colored seersucker suit on November 22, 1963. The following image on the same negative strip, 2014.080.1046.0006, shows the vehicle behind Dillard's Camera Car #3, officially designated Congressman's Car #1. That vehicle contained U.S. Representatives Homer Thornberry, Walter Rogers and George Mahon as well as Larry O'Brien, Special Assistant to the President. Shortly after this series of photographs was taken on Main Street, Dillard used his 35mm camera to take the first still photograph showing the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, captured seconds after the last shot was fired in Dealey Plaza. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of a large group of motorcade spectators on Main Street
35mm black and white image on Kodak film that was taken by Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard of a large group of bystanders observing the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The white streaks seen on the left side of the photograph appear on the original negative and are also visible on right side of the previous image on the negative strip, 2014.080.1046.0001.
Image of a large group of motorcade spectators on Main Street
03/06/1964 - 03/07/1964
Photographs
Photographer
Trip to Texas
Kennedy, John F.
The Dallas Morning News
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
Dallas
Film
15/16 × 1 5/16 in. (2.4 × 3.3 cm)
The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history
2014.080.1046.0002
Object featured in special exhibition, Two Days in Texas, November 8, 2023 through September 8, 2024.
Although there were two Dallas Morning News photographers in the Kennedy motorcade, we know with certainty that this particular image was captured by chief photographer Tom Dillard thanks to other images on the same negative strip. Shortly after snapping this image of enthusiastic bystanders on Main Street, Dillard - riding in Camera Car #3 - took wide shots showing the view in front of and behind his vehicle in the parade. Image 2014.080.1046.0005 of his forward view clearly shows his Dallas Morning News colleague Clint Grant, who was riding in Camera Car #2 along with White House photographer Cecil Stoughton and others. Another occupant of Camera Car #2, Art Rickerby of Life Magazine, can be easily identified from behind since he wore a distinctive light-colored seersucker suit on November 22, 1963. The following image on the same negative strip, 2014.080.1046.0006, shows the vehicle behind Dillard's Camera Car #3, officially designated Congressman's Car #1. That vehicle contained U.S. Representatives Homer Thornberry, Walter Rogers and George Mahon as well as Larry O'Brien, Special Assistant to the President. Shortly after this series of photographs was taken on Main Street, Dillard used his 35mm camera to take the first still photograph showing the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, captured seconds after the last shot was fired in Dealey Plaza. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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