/internal/media/dispatcher/24959/fullImage of presidential limousine outside Parkland Hospital11/22/196315/16 × 1 7/16 in. (2.4 × 3.6 cm)FilmTom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1994.003.0011.00020Black and white 35mm negative showing President Kennedy's limousine parked at Parkland Hospital's emergency entrance. The photograph was taken by a photographer from The Dallas Morning News on November 22, 1963.
The photograph shows the limousine parked, facing the building. The photographer was standing several feet behind the vehicle on the driver's side. There is a group of three men standing between the photographer and the limousine; they are blocking the view of the front of the car. Two of the men, who have their backs to the camera, are wearing white shirts and dress slacks; the third man is looking in the camera's direction and he wears a plaid blazer and a hat.
Two police officers, one wearing a white motorcycle helmet, stand near the rear of the limousine on the passenger's side. There is a third man between them; he is wearing a jacket and a hat.
More people stand in front of the limousine, between the front of the car and the windows of the hospital.
There is a motorcycle in both the lower right and the lower left corners.
A sign reading "AMBULANCES ONLY" appears at the top of the image, partially cut off by the upper edge.
The Dallas Morning News photographers recounted where they were throughout the day on November 22, 1963, and some also related their locations in the following days and months when they were photographing events related to the assassination (such as Lee Harvey Oswald’s transfer or the Jack Ruby Trial). Their descriptions can be found in the Belo Collection at SMU; The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza's reading room has copies of these accounts available upon request. In cases where the specific photographer who took an image is not known, the potential photographers can be narrowed down to those who said they were at the image’s location. For this image, Tom Dillard, Clint Grant, Joe Laird and Bill Winfrey are the photographers who were present when the photograph was taken. Tom Dillard specifically mentioned being at the back of Parkland Hospital.Photographs652113.60000000002.400000000011870Negative (b&w)0E-10Original black and white 35mm negative by a Dallas Morning News photographer. The image shows the empty presidential limousine outside Parkland Memorial Hospital after the shooting on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Several police motorcycles are in the foreground, and several men stand outside waiting on news of the situation.LimousineMotorcyclesPolicePhotographsDillard, Tom C.Grant, ClintWinfrey, BillLaird, Jr., Joe F.The Dallas Morning NewsDallas Police DepartmentParkland HospitalDallasIt is not clear which Dallas Morning News photographer took this image. Tom Dillard, Clint Grant, Joe Laird and Bill Winfrey are the photographers who were present when the photograph was taken. Tom Dillard specifically mentioned being at the back of Parkland Hospital, so it is possible that this is one of his images. - Stephanie Allen-Givens, Collections and Exhibits ManagerNo films or photographs are known to exist that show any of the occupants exiting or being removed from the presidential limousine at the emergency entrance to Parkland Memorial Hospital, just as there are no photographs showing President Kennedy inside Parkland Hospital following the assassination. Likewise, while several eyewitnesses got close enough to later describe the graphic condition of the limousine interior, no Dallas photographs are known to exist which clearly show inside the vehicle. The widely circulated color photographs showing the blood-stained limousine interior were actually taken inside the White House Garage by the FBI on Saturday, November 23, 1963.
Black and white photographs (including Image AR406-6 in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection at the University of Texas at Arlington Library) which show the inside of a vehicle at Parkland, with scattered roses visible on the floor of the backseat, are frequently misidentified as showing the interior of the Kennedy limousine. They are, in fact, all photographs showing the inside of Vice President Johnson's vehicle, which was a gray 1964 Lincoln four-door convertible (as opposed to the presidential vehicle, which was a modified blue Lincoln Continental convertible with jump seats). The yellow roses belonged to Lady Bird Johnson, as Mrs. Kennedy's roses, given to her at Love Field by the wife of Dallas Mayor Earle Cabell, were famously red. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator