Image of reporters in hallway of Dallas Police Department Headquarters
Object number1994.003.0033.0002
Date11/24/1963
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer
Dallas Morning News Photographer
ObjectNegative (b&w)
Credit LineTom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumFilm
Dimensions2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)
DescriptionOriginal black and white negative by a Dallas Morning News photographer. This image shows reporters in a hallway at Dallas police headquarters on November 24, 1963. Two television cameras can be seen in the image, one clearly marked as belonging to WBAP-TV, Channel 5, NBC. A police officer can be seen next to one of the cameras left of center.
Curatorial CommentaryJack Beers was the only photographer who reported being present when the photograph was taken, but there could have been another photographer who was present and did not write about the event in their record. - 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
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Dallas Morning News Photographer
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Dallas Morning News Photographer
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Dallas Morning News Photographer
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Dallas Morning News Photographer
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Dallas Morning News Photographer
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