Image of Dealey Plaza and the Texas School Book Depository building
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Image of Dealey Plaza and the Texas School Book Depository building
Original 35mm color slide of Dealey Plaza and the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas. The image was taken by amateur photographers Rudy and Vera Clauss on Saturday, November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of President Kennedy. The image shows several bystanders in Dealey Plaza with the Texas School Book Depository building in the background. A corner of the Dal-Tex building is also visible along the right edge of the image.
Image of Dealey Plaza and the Texas School Book Depository building
11/23/1963
Cardboard, Film
2 × 2 in. (5.1 × 5.1 cm)
Rudy and Vera Clauss Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2018.006.0024
In this photograph taken the day after the assassination, the left side of the southeast corner window is raised on the sixth floor of the Depository building. In another photograph in this series from the same day, the left side is closed though the right side has been opened. Investigators and news media accessed the sixth floor during the assassination weekend, and a number of photographs - as well as news film - were taken looking out onto Dealey Plaza from the southeast corner window. Isadore Bleckman of Fox Movietone News, for example, recalls visiting the sixth floor of the Depository on Saturday (the day this amateur photo was taken): "Yeah, we came up here, and they let me shoot through the window where he was, and they showed the cardboard boxes that were stacked around [where] he camouflaged himself.... I looked out that window and I thought to myself... yeah, I could hit something moving like that, but I wouldn't have the nerve or the stomach or the anything to do something." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Whether by accident or design, this amateur photograph was taken in Dealey Plaza almost exactly twenty-four hours to the minute after the Kennedy assassination. The Hertz Rent-a-Car billboard atop the Depository building displayed the time as 12:30PM at the moment of the shooting on Friday, November 22. Based on the time displayed on that same billboard, this photo appears to have been taken at 12:29PM on Saturday, November 23. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of Dealey Plaza and the Texas School Book Depository building
Original 35mm color slide of Dealey Plaza and the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas. The image was taken by amateur photographers Rudy and Vera Clauss on Saturday, November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of President Kennedy. The image shows several bystanders in Dealey Plaza with the Texas School Book Depository building in the background. A corner of the Dal-Tex building is also visible along the right edge of the image.
Image of Dealey Plaza and the Texas School Book Depository building
11/23/1963
Photographs
Dealey Plaza
Hertz sign
Texas School Book Depository
Dal-Tex Building
Dallas
Cardboard, Film
2 × 2 in. (5.1 × 5.1 cm)
Rudy and Vera Clauss Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2018.006.0024
In this photograph taken the day after the assassination, the left side of the southeast corner window is raised on the sixth floor of the Depository building. In another photograph in this series from the same day, the left side is closed though the right side has been opened. Investigators and news media accessed the sixth floor during the assassination weekend, and a number of photographs - as well as news film - were taken looking out onto Dealey Plaza from the southeast corner window. Isadore Bleckman of Fox Movietone News, for example, recalls visiting the sixth floor of the Depository on Saturday (the day this amateur photo was taken): "Yeah, we came up here, and they let me shoot through the window where he was, and they showed the cardboard boxes that were stacked around [where] he camouflaged himself.... I looked out that window and I thought to myself... yeah, I could hit something moving like that, but I wouldn't have the nerve or the stomach or the anything to do something." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Whether by accident or design, this amateur photograph was taken in Dealey Plaza almost exactly twenty-four hours to the minute after the Kennedy assassination. The Hertz Rent-a-Car billboard atop the Depository building displayed the time as 12:30PM at the moment of the shooting on Friday, November 22. Based on the time displayed on that same billboard, this photo appears to have been taken at 12:29PM on Saturday, November 23. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
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