/internal/media/dispatcher/9899/fullImage of crowds in Dealey Plaza after the assassination, Slide #1011/23/19632 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)FilmJerry Mainer Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2001.004.00070Color slide, developed December 1963, number 10 in set. Shows Dealey Plaza on the afternoon of November 23, 1963. Image shows mourners surrounding a grouping of memorial flower arrangements and wreaths on the grassy knoll. The arrangements are blocked off by a rope fence. In the top center of the image is a road sign reading, "Stemmons Freeway, Keep Right." Elm Street and more mourners at Dealey Plaza can be seen in the background.
Marked as a "Color Transparency."Photographs643545.08000000005.080000000020749SlideOriginal 35mm color slide 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 crowds in Dealey Plaza with floral tributes, wreaths, and notes left by mourners. A sign for Stemmons Freeway is visible at the top center of the image.Dealey PlazaMournersFlowersMemorialsElm StreetPhotographsTributesCrowdsSignStemmons FreewayDallasThe 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, Curator