/internal/media/dispatcher/24995/fullImage of reporters in hallway at Dallas Police Department11/22/19632 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)FilmTom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1994.003.0013.00020Black and white 120 film negative showing reporters outside the Homicide and Robbery office at Dallas Police Headquarters. The photograph was taken by a photographer at The Dallas Morning News.
The photograph shows a portion of the hallway outside the Homicide and Robbery office at Dallas Police Headquarters; the hallway is filled with reporters. There is one police officer standing beside the door of the office.
The Homicide and Robbery office appears on the right side of the image; its sign appears above the door and is perpendicular to the wall. It is in room number 317. Room 316, Burglary and Theft, is on the left side of the image.
Reporters fill most of the hallway. They appear to be almost entirely men, but there is at least one woman. She is left of center, and her back is to the camera. Most of the reporters are gathered haphazardly in the middle of the hall, though a few lean against the walls.
There is a photographer taking a picture on the lower left side of the image; near the center at the bottom, there is another man wearing a plaid jacket and holding a camera on his right shoulder.
The photographer or the camera was somehow elevated to take the image judging by the height of the image's angle.
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, Jack Beers, Tom Dillard and Bill Winfrey are the photographers who were present when the photograph was taken.Photographs652195.60000000005.600000000011892Negative (b&w)0E-10Original black and white 35mm negative by Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard. The image shows a large group of reporters in a hallway outside the Homocide and Robbery Office at Dallas Police Department Headquarters on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. There is one police officer standing beside the door of the office, above which is a sign that reads "317, Homocide & Robbery."PoliceReporterPressPhotographsWinfrey, BillDillard, Tom C.Beers, JackDallas Police DepartmentThe Dallas Morning NewsHomicide and Robbery BureauDallas