Wall clock from the Time-Life offices in Houston, Texas
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Wall clock from the Time-Life offices in Houston, Texas
Western Union synchronized wall clock that was hanging in the Houston Time-Life office on November 22, 1963.
Wall clock from the Time-Life offices in Houston, Texas
circa 1960
Metal, Glass
5 x 14 1/2 in. (12.7 x 36.8 cm)
Rose Blatch Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2012.010.0001
Donor Rose Blatch was secretary of the Time-Life bureau in Dallas (1961-62) and Houston (1963-72). Among the mementos she saved from her career with Time-Life was this clock that was hanging in the Houston bureau office at the time of the assassination. As Rose explained in an oral history recorded in 2012, this clock was connected to the office's Western Union teletype machines, and a small light (visible above the number "6") would flash when news came across the wire. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator
Most broadcast and print newsrooms, as well as banks and other businesses, subscribed to the Western Union telegrpah service in order to have extremely accurate time references. Daily time signals originated with the U.S. Naval Observatory and were passed along the line to subscribers who had their clocks connected to them. - Gary Mack, Curator.
Wall clock from the Time-Life offices in Houston, Texas
Western Union synchronized wall clock that was hanging in the Houston Time-Life office on November 22, 1963.
Wall clock from the Time-Life offices in Houston, Texas
circa 1960
Time-Life
Western Union
Houston
Metal, Glass
5 x 14 1/2 in. (12.7 x 36.8 cm)
Rose Blatch Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2012.010.0001
Donor Rose Blatch was secretary of the Time-Life bureau in Dallas (1961-62) and Houston (1963-72). Among the mementos she saved from her career with Time-Life was this clock that was hanging in the Houston bureau office at the time of the assassination. As Rose explained in an oral history recorded in 2012, this clock was connected to the office's Western Union teletype machines, and a small light (visible above the number "6") would flash when news came across the wire. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator
Most broadcast and print newsrooms, as well as banks and other businesses, subscribed to the Western Union telegrpah service in order to have extremely accurate time references. Daily time signals originated with the U.S. Naval Observatory and were passed along the line to subscribers who had their clocks connected to them. - Gary Mack, Curator.
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