/internal/media/dispatcher/26672/fullImage of Eva Grant in a crowded hallway at Dallas Police Department Headquarters11/24/19632 3/8 × 2 11/16 in. (6.1 × 6.9 cm)FilmTom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1994.003.00460Black and white 120mm negative strip containing an image of Eva Grant in a crowded hallway. The images were taken by a photographer from The Dallas Morning News.
Across the top of the negative strip, "Kodak Safety Film" is printed once completely and once partially; this text appears upside down and backwards in relation to the images and other text on the strip. In the lower margin of the negative, a "3" and a "4" are printed.
In the image, Eva Grant appears right of center, wearing a sheer, dotted scarf over her head and a coat made of textured material. Grant's right hand appears to be holding onto the upper left arm of the woman in front of her; this woman seems to be leading the pair down the hallway. Her purse hangs from its strap on her right arm.
On the right side of the image, there is a man wearing a suit and glasses; his left arm is extended, pointing the direction for Eva Grant and her companion. A previous cataloger identified this man as Jim Underwood from KRLD-TV.
There is a police officer standing against the wall on the left side of the image. In the lower right corner, a man's hands can be seen holding a notebook. More people are visible in the background behind Eva Grant.Photographs655636.90000000006.100000000022749Negative (b&w)0E-10Original 120 format black and white negative on Kodak Safety Film by a Dallas Morning News photographer. This image shows Jack Ruby's sister Eva Grant being escorted by Jim Underwood from KRLD-TV in a crowded hallway at Dallas police headquarters on November 24, 1963.PhotographsPoliceUnderwood, JimGrant, EvaThe Dallas Morning NewsDallas Police DepartmentDallas Police HeadquartersDallasIt is unclear what Dallas Morning News photographer took this image. - Stephanie Allen-Givens, Collections and Exhibits ManagerJim Underwood, assistant news director and weatherman at KRLD-TV, is often seen in photographs alongside Jack Ruby's sister, Eva Grant, following the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. According to several of Underwood's colleagues at KRLD, this was at Ms. Grant's insistence. In a local PBS interview in 2003, news director Eddie Barker remembered that Grant "thought that our weatherman, Jim Underwood was the greatest thing in the world, and he called her on the phone and went out to see her." Barker also said in his Museum oral history that Grant personally asked Underwood to escort her to Dallas police headquarters on the evening of Sunday, November 24 (when this photograph was taken). KRLD reporter Bob Huffaker added that Grant asked Underwood "to be her press advisor of sorts because she had seen him a lot on television and had listened to him a lot on the radio." Chuckling, Huffaker remembered, "And so there I was placed in the position of sort of questioning my own colleague because he was advising her as to what she might say or not say... just to give her some reassurance frankly, I think, more than anything else." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator