Image of police officer and railyard after the assassination
Object number2002.004.0007
Date11/22/1963
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer
Jay Skaggs
ObjectSlide
Credit LineJay Skaggs Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumFilm
Dimensions2 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)
Collections
Description35mm Kodachrome II color slide, #8 of 20 images, taken by Jay Skaggs looking west into the railroad parking lot near the north end of the triple underpass shortly after the assassination. The image shows a Dallas Police motorcycle officer, probably Clyde Haygood, and three unidentified men.
Curatorial CommentaryJay Skaggs followed eyewitnesses and law enforcement officials into the railroad parking lot behind the stockade fence at the top of the grassy knoll. In his 2002 oral history, he said, "I wasn't up there too long.... What I was looking for, I guess, was to see... somebody down below must've pointed up there or said something about 'the shots came from up there.' I was looking for somebody with a gun, which, of course, would've been kind of dumb." - Stephen Fagin, Curator
