Image of schoolgirl Kathey Atkinson reacting to news of the president's death
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Image of schoolgirl Kathey Atkinson reacting to news of the president's death
Original 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Eamon Kennedy. This image, taken at Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963, shows Dallas schoolgirl Kathey Atkinson, standing next to her mother Wilda (far left), reacting to news of the president's death.
Image of schoolgirl Kathey Atkinson reacting to news of the president's death
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
1989.100.0013.0002
Kathey Atkinson saw President and Mrs. Kennedy at Dallas Love Field earlier that morning. At the moment that this photograph was taken outside of Parkland Memorial Hospital, she and her mother were reacting to news from a Catholic priest that the president had died. This photograph, published on the front page of the Dallas Times Herald the following day, was distributed internationally. Dallas Times Herald women's news editor Vivian Castleberry called it "a symbol of the world's grief." - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of schoolgirl Kathey Atkinson reacting to news of the president's death
Original 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Eamon Kennedy. This image, taken at Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963, shows Dallas schoolgirl Kathey Atkinson, standing next to her mother Wilda (far left), reacting to news of the president's death.
Image of schoolgirl Kathey Atkinson reacting to news of the president's death
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
1989.100.0013.0002
Kathey Atkinson saw President and Mrs. Kennedy at Dallas Love Field earlier that morning. At the moment that this photograph was taken outside of Parkland Memorial Hospital, she and her mother were reacting to news from a Catholic priest that the president had died. This photograph, published on the front page of the Dallas Times Herald the following day, was distributed internationally. Dallas Times Herald women's news editor Vivian Castleberry called it "a symbol of the world's grief." - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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