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Image of presidential motorcade turning from Lemmon Ave to Turtle Creek Blvd
Image of presidential motorcade turning from Lemmon Ave to Turtle Creek Blvd

Image of presidential motorcade turning from Lemmon Ave to Turtle Creek Blvd

Object number1994.003.0001.0002
Date11/22/1963
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer Tom C. Dillard
ObjectNegative (b&w)
Credit LineTom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumFilm
Dimensions1 × 1 1/2 in. (2.5 × 3.8 cm)
Collections
DescriptionOriginal 35mm black and white negative taken by photographer Tom C. Dillard from The Dallas Morning News. The image shows the back of Camera Car #2 with a number of national news photographers as they rode in the presidential motorcade in Dallas, Texas on Friday, November 22, 1963. The image was taken as the motorcade was turning from Lemmon Avenue onto Turtle Creek Boulevard. Dillard was in the front passenger seat of Camera Car #3 riding with fellow local news photographers. There are several police motorcycles visible, and people are lining both sides of the road smiling as the motorcade passes.
Curatorial Commentary
The occupants of Camera Car #2, seen from behind in this photograph, included Clint Grant of The Dallas Morning News, Frank Cancellare of UPI, Art Rickerby of Life Magazine, Henry Burroughs of AP, and Cecil Stoughton, the official White House photographer. The Dallas police motorcycle officer on the left is H.B. McLain. During the House Select Committee on Assassination investigations in the 1970s, McLain was thought to be the officer with the open or stuck microphone that might have inadvertently recorded the assassination. McLain always denied that his microphone was responsible for the controversial acoustics evidence. The motorcycle officer on the right is Marrion Baker. Baker was the first law enforcement official inside the Texas School Book Depository following the assassination. Alongside building manager Roy Truly, Baker famously encountered Lee Harvey Oswald in the second-floor lunchroom within approximately ninety seconds of the last shot. Baker did not detain Oswald after Truly identified him as a building employee. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator