/internal/media/dispatcher/9909/fullImage of floral tributes in Dealey Plaza after the assassination, Slide #2111/23/19632 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)FilmJerry Mainer Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2001.004.00170Color slide, developed December 1963, number 21 in set. Shows memorial flower arrangements on Dealey Plaza on the afternoon of November 23, 1963. The photo shows three wreaths of white flowers on stands. At the top of each wreath is a white bow. The wreaths are positioned one in front of the other in a staggered line. Other arrangements can be seen on the grass.
Marked as a "Color Transparency."Photographs634765.08000000005.080000000021300SlideOriginal 35mm color slide taken by amateur photographer Jerry Mainer. Image shows floral tributes in Dealey Plaza on the afternoon of November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of President Kennedy. Image features three memorial flower wreaths with white flowers and white ribbons.Dealey PlazaFlowersMemorialsTributesPhotographsDallasThe 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