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Image of crowds in Dealey Plaza after the assassination, Slide #28
Original 35mm color slide taken by amateur photographer Jerry Mainer. Image shows crowds on the south side of Elm Street in Dealey Plaza on the afternoon of November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of President Kennedy. Mourners surround a group of memorial flower arrangements and wreaths. The arrangements are blocked off by a rope fence. The photo was taken from the north side of Elm Street, and the Old Red Courthouse and the white peristyles of Dealey Plaza appear in the background.
Image of crowds in Dealey Plaza after the assassination, Slide #28
11/23/1963
Film
2 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)
Jerry Mainer Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2001.004.0024
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
Image of crowds in Dealey Plaza after the assassination, Slide #28
Original 35mm color slide taken by amateur photographer Jerry Mainer. Image shows crowds on the south side of Elm Street in Dealey Plaza on the afternoon of November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of President Kennedy. Mourners surround a group of memorial flower arrangements and wreaths. The arrangements are blocked off by a rope fence. The photo was taken from the north side of Elm Street, and the Old Red Courthouse and the white peristyles of Dealey Plaza appear in the background.
Image of crowds in Dealey Plaza after the assassination, Slide #28
11/23/1963
Dealey Plaza
Mourners
Memorials
Flowers
Photographs
Crowds
Tributes
Elm Street
Main Street
Old Red Courthouse
Dallas
Film
2 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)
Jerry Mainer Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2001.004.0024
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