/internal/media/dispatcher/9924/fullImage of crowds in Dealey Plaza after the assassination, Slide #3611/23/19632 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)FilmJerry Mainer Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2001.004.00320Color slide, developed December 1963, number 36 in set. Shows Dealey Plaza on the afternoon of November 23, 1963. The photo was taken from the crest of the grassy knoll looking up Elm Street toward Houston Street. Mourners, including Catholic nuns, are packed along the Elm Street sidewalk on the side of the knoll, looking at memorial flower arrangements. The back of the Stemmons Freeway road sign can be seen, and behind it an American flag has been hung at half mast on a temporary pole. A portion of Dealey Plaza and the Dallas County Jail are visible in the background.
Marked as a "Color Transparency."Photographs634815.08000000005.080000000021315SlideOriginal 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 day after the assassination of President Kennedy. The photo was taken from the north side of Elm Street looking towards the intersection of Houston Street and Elm Street. Image 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 Jail, the Texas School Book Depository building, and the Dal-Tex building are visible.MournersDealey PlazaElm StreetFlowersMemorialsPhotographsCrowdsTributesHouston StreetDallas County JailTexas School Book DepositoryDal-Tex 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