{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"11900"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Original black and white 35mm negative by Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard. The image shows several coats and hats on a rack in Chief Jesse Curry's office at Dallas police headquarters in downtown Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. One of the hats is Texas Governor John Connally's blood-spattered Stetson cowboy hat, which he was holding at the time of the assassination."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"1994.003.0015.0002"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Black and white 120 film negative showing a coat rack at Dallas Police Headquarters.  The photograph was taken by Tom C. Dillard, Chief Photographer at The Dallas Morning News.\r\n\r\nThe image shows a coat rack in either a hallway or office at Dallas Police Headquarters. The photographer was standing on the other side of the doorway from the coat rack looking into the room; there is an open doorway between the photographer and the rack. The door opens into the room with the rack and is seen on the right side of the image. The left side of the doorway cuts off the view into the room where the coat rack is standing so that it cannot be determined what type of room (office, hallway, etc.) it is.  \r\n\r\nThe rack appears near the center of the image, a couple of yards inside the room.  On the far wall from the photographer there is a window, its blinds raised and a potted plant on the window sill. There is a glare on the window, maybe from the camera's flash. On the wall behind the coat rack, there are several hanging frames.  The floor appears to be tiled.\r\n\r\nOn the coat rack, there is at least one white coat--maybe two--and a black coat.  There are also a white hat and a black hat hanging at the top of the rack.  The white hat hangs above the white coat; the black hat hangs above the black coat.\r\n\r\nThe hinge of another opened door can be seen on the left side of the image.  On the floor on the right side of the image is a metal object."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Film"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/25023/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"25023"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Image of Governor Connally's blood-spattered hat hanging in Jesse Curry's office"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Photographs"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/25023/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Police","Evidence","Photographs","Clothing","Dillard, Tom C.","Curry, Jesse E.","Connally, John","The Dallas Morning News","Dallas Police Department","Dallas"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Negative (b&w)"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"11/22/1963"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["5.6000000000"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry returned to Dallas police headquarters around 4:00 p.m. on November 22, 1963, after witnessing the swearing-in of Lyndon Johnson aboard Air Force One at Dallas Love Field. No one knows exactly when and how Curry ended up with the blood-stained hat that Texas Governor John Connally held in his lap during the Dallas motorcade, but Curry had it hanging on a rack in his office when Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard arrived with his camera sometime after 8:30 p.m. In addition to this photograph, Dillard took a series of images of Chief Curry seated at his desk. - Stephen Fagin, Curator","In their 1964 Report, the Warren Commission described the third floor of Dallas police headquarters like this: \"The focal center of the Police and Courts Building during Oswald's detention was the third floor, which housed the main offices of the Dallas Police Department. The public elevators on this floor opened into a lobby midpoint of a corridor that extended along the length of the floor for about 140 feet. At one end of this 7-foot-wide corridor were the offices occupied by Chief of Police Jesse E. Curry and his immediate subordinates; at the other end was a small pressroom that could accommodate only a handful of reporters. Along this corridor were other police offices, including those of the major detective bureaus. Between the pressroom and the lobby was the complex of offices belonging to the homicide and robbery bureau, headed by Capt. J. Will Fritz.\" Warren Commission Exhibit No. 2175 is a third floor layout of Dallas police headquarters. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"65204"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["5.6000000000"]}}]}