/internal/media/dispatcher/62375/fullImage of floral tributes in Dealey Plaza after the assassination, Slide #2211/23/19632 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)FilmJerry Mainer Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2001.004.00180Color slide, developed December 1963, number 22 in set. The image is very dark, possibly taken after the sun had set or the photographer may have made a technical error. Shows memorial flower arrangements on Dealey Plaza on the afternoon of November 23, 1963. The photo was taken in front of the grassy knoll's pergola. In the foreground of the image are flower arrangements. In the background, mourners can be seen standing in the pergola.
Marked as a "Color Transparency."
The image is similar to the image in object number 2001.004.0017, in which the scene is more visible.Photographs634775.08000000005.080000000021301SlideOriginal 35mm color slide taken by amateur photographer Jerry Mainer. Image shows floral tributes on the north side of Elm Street in Dealey Plaza on the afternoon of November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of President Kennedy. Mourners and the north pergola are visible in the background.Dealey PlazaFlowersMournersMemorialsPhotographsCrowdsTributesDallasThe 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