/internal/media/dispatcher/9764/fullImage of flowers and crowds gathered in Dealey Plaza11/23/19632 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)FilmDorothy and Carter Murphy Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2001.064.0031035mm color slide showing the crowd and flowers on the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza after the assassination of President Kennedy. Elm Street is in the foreground with a sign for the Stemmons Freeway and the Bryan pergola and some trees are in the background.
Slide has been removed from its original cardboard holder and is in a black plastic carrier. Original cardboard carrier has "Color Transparency" printed in red twice on one side and "19, Dec 63" printed in red and "Crowds at Assassination site, Dallas 11/63" written in black ink on the other.Photographs631935.08000000005.080000000022095SlideOriginal 35mm color slide taken by Dallas resident Dorothy Murphy showing the crowd of mourners and flowers on the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza after the assassination of President Kennedy on November 23, 1963. Elm Street is in the foreground with a sign for the Stemmons Freeway, and the pergola and some trees are in the background.
Dealey PlazaElm StreetCrowdsFlowersPhotographsMournersSignGrassy knollDallasDealey 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