/internal/media/dispatcher/24531/fullColor photo of flowers on the door to Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital11/22/19657 x 5 in. (17.8 x 12.7 cm)PaperClaire Campbell Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1995.034.00060Color photo of the door to Trauma Room 1, where President Kennedy died.
The photograph shows a wooden door with a silver metal kick plate at the bottom and a smaller flat plate near the center of the left side. On the right side of the image are the cream-colored bricks of the wall.
Centered on the door is a flower arrangement; it consists of white carnations, lots of green leaves and a large white bow in the center.
On the back of the photograph is a white label with black text printed on it; it reads: "#6 Parkland Emergency Room in which President Kennedy died Nov. 22, 1963."
The photograph was printed on Kodak Professional Paper.Photographs6512012.700000000017.780000000011668Photograph (color)Color photo of a flower arrangement hanging on the door to Trauma Room 1 at Parkland Memorial Hospital in memory of President Kennedy on the second anniversary of the assassination in 1965. The photographer, Claire Campbell, was a nurse at Parkland.
On the back of the photograph is a white label with black text printed on it that reads: "#6 Parkland Emergency Room in which President Kennedy died Nov. 22, 1963."
FlowersMemorialsEmergency roomTrauma Room OnePhotographsKennedy, John F.Parkland HospitalDallasIn the years after the Kennedy assassination, memorial wreaths were traditionally hung on the door to Trauma Room One to mark the anniversary. - Stephen Fagin, Curator