/internal/media/dispatcher/9895/fullImage of floral tributes in Dealey Plaza after the assassination, Slide #611/23/19632 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)FilmJerry Mainer Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2001.004.00030Color slide, developed December 1963, number 6 in set. Shows Dealey Plaza on the afternoon of November 23, 1963. Image shows mourners at Dealey Plaza. In the center of the image are memorial flower arrangements surrounded by a rope fence; one has a placard that reads, "In Prayerful Memory of Our Beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Men of St. Bernard's Church." In the photo's left foreground, a woman wearing a head scarf kneels to arrange some flowers. In the background, the pergolas at the top of the grassy knoll can be seen.
Marked as a "Color Transparency."
This photograph was taken between Elm and Main; other arrangements seen in photographs with St. Bernard’s Church’s arrangements are also in the median area between these two streets. (S.F. 1-19-12)Photographs634735.08000000005.080000000020745SlideOriginal 35mm color slide taken by amateur photographer Jerry Mainer. Immediately after the assassination and in the following days and weeks, people left flowers and mementos in Dealey Plaza in honor of President Kennedy. This picture was taken on the afternoon of the day following President Kennedy's assassination. Image shows floral tributes and wreaths left on the south side of Elm Street in Dealey Plaza by mourners.Dealey PlazaFlowersMemorialsMournersTributesPhotographsDallasThe slides are numbered sequentially starting at #4 and going through #36, skipping #20, for a total of 32 slides. They were donated to the Museum like this, and it is unknown what happened to the missing slides from this sequence. - Stephanie Allen-Givens, Collections and Exhibits ManagerDealey Plaza was transformed into a memorial shrine during the weekend of the assassination as mourners left wreaths, floral displays and notecards in memory of President Kennedy. One plaza visitor, George Reid, recalled in his Museum oral history: "People were starting to leave things and then, by Sunday morning, there was quite a bit of stuff there--quite a lot of flowers.... And people were coming down there, and people were standing there crying. People just bawling and just talking to each other, hugging each other, you know. It was an emotional scene that day." - Stephen Fagin, CuratorThe printed sign beneath the large white cross in this photograph read in full: "In Prayerful Memory of Our Beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Men of St. Bernard's Church." St. Bernard of Clairvaux Catholic Church is still located in the Little Forest Hills section of Dallas near White Rock Lake on the site where it was originally established in 1947. The founding pastor, Monsignor John M. Wiewell, was still at St. Bernard's at the time of the assassination, serving the church from 1947 to 1968. - Stephen Fagin, Curator