/internal/media/dispatcher/25027/fullImage of Chief Jesse Curry at his desk in Dallas Police Department11/22/1963Negative: 2 3/8 × 5 1/16 in. (6.1 × 12.9 cm)
Frame: 2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)FilmTom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1994.003.00170Black and white 120 film negative strip showing an image of Dallas Police Chief Jessie Curry at Dallas Police Headquarters on November 22, 1963. The image was taken by Tom C. Dillard, Chief Photographer at The Dallas Morning News.
Besides the image of Police Chief Curry, there is a blank frame on the negative strip.
Across the top of the negative strip, "Kodak Safety Film" is printed three times; this text appears upside down and backwards in relation to the image and other text on the strip. In the lower margin of the negative, "5," "D" and possibly a "6" are printed. The "5" is under the image of Police Chief Curry; the "D" and the "6" are under the blank frame.
The image on the negative strip shows Dallas Police Chief Jessie Curry sitting at his desk in Dallas Police Headquarters on the evening of November 22, 1963. Curry is wearing a suit and tie and glasses. He is holding a black telephone receiver to his left ear with his left hand; his right hand rests on the arm rest of his chair. There are papers, a coffee cup, and a spoon on a napkin on the desk in front of him.
There are a series of portraits of men hanging in rows on the wall behind him. There is a desk or table behind his chair on which there are framed pictures and certificates. One of the photographs, on the left side of the image, shows a woman and a little girl. There are also two baseball trophies on the table.Photographs6520512.90000000005.60000000006.10000000005.600000000022720Negative (b&w)0E-100E-10Original 120 format black and white negative strip of Kodak Safety Film containing one image by Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard. Image shows Chief Jesse Curry seated at his desk using the telephone at Dallas police headquarters in downtown Dallas, Texas on the evening of November 22, 1963.PhotographsTelephoneDillard, Tom C.Curry, Jesse E.The Dallas Morning NewsDallas Police DepartmentDallas Police HeadquartersDallas Municipal BuildingDallasDallas Police Chief Jesse Curry became a recognized figure on television during the weekend of the assassination, more than once stating his belief that Lee Harvey Oswald was responsible for the murder of President Kennedy. Three years after retiring from the Dallas Police Department, Curry wrote a book, awkwardly titled Retired Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry Reveals His Personal JFK Assassination File (1969). At a press conference about the book, Curry admitted that he had doubts about the single bullet theory and that Oswald was the lone assassin. In a BBC interview recorded two years before his death in 1980, Curry suggested that, "by the direction of his blood and brain from the president," the fatal shot was likely "fired from the front rather than behind. I can't say that I could swear that I believe that it was one man and one man alone. I think there's a possibility there could have been another man." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator