/internal/media/dispatcher/61965/fullImage of presidential motorcade turning from Lemmon Ave to Turtle Creek Blvd11/22/19631 × 1 1/2 in. (2.5 × 3.8 cm)FilmTom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1994.003.0001.00020Black and white 35mm negative showing cars and motorcycles in the motorcade as they drive through Dallas on November 22, 1963. The image was taken by Tom C. Dillard, Chief Photographer at The Dallas Morning News.
The cars appear to be traveling somewhere along Turtle Creek Boulevard or Cedar Springs Road.
The image was probably taken from the vehicle following the cars pictured; the image shows the backs of the cars in the motorcade. The car directly in front of the photographer drives near the center of the road; it has the license plate number "P1 7856." There are three men sitting on the top of the backseat of the car. At least three other vehicles in the motorcade can also be seen.
On either side of the road in the image are Dallas Police officers on motorcycles; both are wearing white helmets. The motorcyclist on the left is a little further ahead of the motorcyclist on the right side of the image. The motorcycle on the left is numbered 352; the motorcycle on the right is numbered 346.
There are people lining both sides of the road. They can be seen following the edges of the street as it curves.
There are no tall buildings in the image; there are trees on either side of the road and several telephone poles can be seen, mostly on the left.Photographs640823.81000762002.540005080011770Negative (b&w)0E-10Original 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.PoliceMotorcyclesCrowdsPressReporterTrip to TexasMotorcadePhotographsLemmon AvenueTurtle Creek BoulevardDillard, Tom C.The Dallas Morning NewsDallasThe 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