/internal/media/dispatcher/9766/fullImage of flowers and crowd of mourners 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 Plaza2001.064.0033035mm color slide showing the floral tributes and crowd of mourners in Dealey Plaza after the assassination. The photograph was shot looking east towards the back of the South peristyle and Houston and Main Streets beyond.
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 "21, Dec 63" printed in red and "Assassination site, Dallas 11/63" written in black ink on the other.Photographs631955.08000000005.080000000022097SlideOriginal 35mm color slide taken by Dallas resident Dorothy Murphy showing the floral tributes and a crowd of mourners in Dealey Plaza after the assassination of President Kennedy on November 23, 1963. The photograph was shot looking east towards the back of the south peristyle and the intersection of Houston Street and Main Street. The Old Red Courthouse is visible in the upper right corner of the image.Dealey PlazaFlowersTributesPhotographsMain StreetHouston StreetOld Red CourthouseDallasDealey 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