/internal/media/dispatcher/24729/fullPhoto of Dealey Plaza with flowers the morning after the assassination11/23/19638 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)Paper, PhotoTom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1994.003.01590Color photograph showing the Texas School Book Depository from Dealey Plaza. The photograph does not have a stamp on the back identifying the photographer, but it could have been taken by someone at The Dallas Morning News since it was in Tom C. Dillard's collection.
The photograph was taken from the grassy island that lies between Elm and Main Streets looking toward the Texas School Book Depository. The depository building appears in the background at the top of the image, right of center. The Dal-Tex building appears in the upper right corner. The Hertz sign is visible on top of the Texas School Book Depository Building; the temperature reads "52."
In the foreground on the right side of the image is a floral arrangement on a stand: it has a white floral cross with a sign stating, "In Prayerful Memory of Our Beloved President, JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, Men of St. Bernard’s Church.” Scattered on the ground around the stand are more floral arrangements and bouquets.
There is a group of mourners standing on the other side of the photographer from the flower arrangements. There are also mourners on the opposite side of Elm Street.
Several cars can be seen driving on Elm Street.
The photograph has a white border.
The photograph was printed on Kodak Paper.
On the back, in the upper left quadrant, there are several spots of brown discoloration.Photographs6520325.400000000020.320000000022862Photograph (color)Color photographic print possibly taken by a Dallas Morning News photographer. The image shows flowers and mourners in Dealey Plaza on the morning after Kennedy's assassination on November 23, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. The photo was taken looking down Elm Street towards the Texas School Book Depository building. The Hertz sign on top of The Texas School Book Depository building reads the temperature as 52 degrees.Dealey PlazaElm StreetHertz signFlowersMemorialsMournersPhotographsDillard, Tom C.Dal-Tex BuildingThe Dallas Morning NewsTexas School Book DepositoryDallasIt is possible that this photo was taken by Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard, but there are no stamps on the reverse of the print verifying this. - Stephanie Allen-Givens, Collections and Exhibits ManagerThe printed sign beneath the large white cross in this photograph read in full: "In Prayerful Memory of Our Beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Men of St. Bernard's Church." St. Bernard of Clairvaux Catholic Church is still located in the Little Forest Hills section of Dallas near White Rock Lake on the site where it was originally established in 1947. The founding pastor, Monsignor John M. Wiewell, was still at St. Bernard's at the time of the assassination, serving the church from 1947 to 1968. - Stephen Fagin, CuratorDealey 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