/internal/media/dispatcher/9923/fullImage of crowds in Dealey Plaza after the assassination, Slide #3511/23/19632 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)FilmJerry Mainer Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2001.004.00310Color slide, developed December 1963, number 35 in set. Shows Dealey Plaza on the afternoon of November 23, 1963. The photo was taken from the crest of the grassy knoll looking down at Elm Street and the portion of Dealey Plaza across Elm Street. Image shows mourners standing on the knoll and on Dealey plaza. The mourners on the grassy knoll look at memorial flower arrangements that have been placed on the ground behind a rope fence. Several Catholic nuns are intermixed with the other mourners. To the image's left is a man's shoulder and arm, blurred and out of focus. In the background are the Dallas County Criminal Courts and a portion of the Dealey Plaza wall and peristyles that run along Houston Street.
Marked as a "Color Transparency."Photographs632135.08000000005.080000000021314SlideOriginal 35mm color slide taken by amateur photographer Jerry Mainer showing crowds of people and flowers in Dealey Plaza on the afternoon of November 23, 1963. The photo was taken from the north side of Elm Street and shows mourners, including a group of Catholic nuns, looking at memorial flower arrangements that have been placed on the ground behind a rope fence. In the background the Dallas County Criminal Courts building and a portion of the Dealey Plaza peristyle that runs along Houston Street are visible.Dealey PlazaElm StreetFlowersMournersMemorialsPhotographsCrowdsTributesDallas County Criminal Courts BuildingDallasThe 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