Image of the Texas School Book Depository main entrance
Object number2002.004.0013
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)
Description35mm Kodachrome II color slide, #16 of 20 images, taken by Jay Skaggs from the southeast corner of Elm and Houston Streets. This image shows the Texas School Book Depository doorway and several police officers in the intersection near the Depository steps.
Curatorial CommentaryDallas sheriff's deputy Roger Craig may appear in this picture facing the camera just to the left of the police car's red light. Moments earlier, Craig had noticed a man who he later thought was Lee Harvey Oswald run down the grass and climb into a Rambler station wagon leaving Dealey Plaza. Investigators later concluded Craig was mistaken and that Oswald had walked several blocks away from the Depository in the opposite direction and got on a city bus. - Gary Mack, Curator
