{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"11924"},"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 negative by a Dallas Morning News photographer. The image shows reporters in the third floor hallway outside the Homicide & Robbery Bureau office at Dallas police headquarters. A uniformed police officer guards the door to the office. The man in the trench coat is Dallas Times Herald reporter Jim Lehrer."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"1994.003.0029.0002"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Black and white 120 film negative showing an image of the hallway outside the Homicide and Robbery Bureau at Dallas Police Headquarters on November 22, 1963.  The image was taken by a photographer from The Dallas Morning News.\r\n\r\nThe door to the Homicide and Robbery Bureau appears on the left side of the image.  There is a police officer in uniform standing in front of the door; he has his right arm behind his back and his left hand on his belt in front of him. \r\n\r\nThe sign for the bureau can be seen above the door; it sticks out perpendicularly from the wall and reads, \"317, HOMICIDE & ROBBERY.\"  The bureau's name is also printed in dark letters on the window in the door.\r\n\r\nThere are several men standing in the hallway.  A man on the right side, leaning against the wall, is holding a camera.\r\n\r\nThe 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\u2019s 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\u2019s location.  For this image, Jack Beers, Tom Dillard and Bill Winfrey are the photographers who were present when the photograph was taken."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Film"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/26299/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"26299"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Image of hallway outside Homocide & Robbery Bureau at Dallas Police Department"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Photographs"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/26299/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Police","Reporter","Press","Photographs","Beers, Jack","Winfrey, Bill","Lehrer, Jim","The Dallas Morning News","Homicide and Robbery Bureau","Dallas Police Headquarters","Dallas Municipal Building","Dallas Police Department","Dallas Times Herald","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":["Jim Lehrer, an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist best known for the long-running PBS NewsHour program and for moderating presidential debates (1988-2012), was a reporter at the Dallas Times Herald in 1963. Assigned to Dallas Love Field on November 22, 1963, he witnessed the Secret Service remove the bubbletop from the presidential limousine shortly before the Dallas motorcade. Following the assassination, he covered the scene at Dallas police headquarters. \r\nMr. Lehrer recorded an oral history interview with the Museum in November 2013, which may be accessed in the Museum\u2019s online collections database here: Jim Lehrer Oral History \u2013 Works \u2013 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMore objects related to Jim Lehrer may be found here: Thesaurus \u2013 Vocabularies \u2013 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger","This object is featured in the Museum's special exhibit, \"On Assignment: Dallas Times Herald 1963,\" which opened on April 29, 2026.","It is not clear which Dallas Morning News photographer took this image. Jack Beers, Tom Dillard and Bill Winfrey are the photographers who were present when the photograph was taken. It could have been any of them. - Stephanie Allen-Givens, Collections and Exhibits Manager","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","The reporter in the center, wearing the tan coat, is the late Jim Lehrer, who was then a reporter with the Dallas Times Herald. Earlier that day, Lehrer had covered the arrival of the Kennedys at Dallas Love Field. Lehrer would go on to become an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, best known for the long-running PBS NewsHour program and for moderating twelve presidential debates between 1988 and 2012. Lehrer recorded an oral history with The Sixth Floor Museum on November 1, 2013. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"65543"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["5.6000000000"]}}]}