/internal/media/dispatcher/9615/fullPhoto printing plate of aerial view of Dealey Plaza11/23/19637 3/16 × 9 1/4 × 1/16 in. (18.3 × 23.5 × 0.2 cm)MetalJack H. and Jane C. McNairy Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2003.061.00010Copper-colored metal photo printing plate of an aerial view of Dealey Plaza. Image includes street names, motorcade route and graphics of the bullet trajectory.
Labeled "Overhead" with initials, possibly OD or OP, in grease pencil on back. Back side has round logos with "Micro-Metal Photoengravers Plates, ® made in USA" printed repeatedly.
The printed image from this plate appeared in the Dallas Times Herald from November 23, 1963. The paper was No. 293 from the 87th Year, Saturday Evening Final Edition, and the image appeared in Part A, Page 3.Artifacts6316723.495000000018.256286512624511Printing plate0.1587503175Copper-colored metal photo printing plate of an aerial view of Dealey Plaza. The image is reversed to reproduce correctly on paper. The plate includes handwritten additions showing street names, motorcade route and graphics of the bullet trajectory.
Labeled "Overhead" with initials, possibly OD or OP, in grease pencil on back.
The printed image from this plate appeared in Dallas Times Herald newspapers on November 23, 1963.Dealey PlazaAssassinationMotorcadeElm StreetMain StreetHouston StreetHertz signTexas School Book DepositoryOld Red CourthouseDallas County Records BuildingDallas County Criminal Courts BuildingDallas Times HeraldDallasDonor Jack McNairy was a high school student in 1963 and worked part-time at the Dallas Times Herald. Within days of the Kennedy assassination, McNairy noticed a stack of recently-used photographic printing plates that had been discarded in a bin to be melted down and recycled. Sensing that these photographic plates had historic value, McNairy saved as many as he could and kept them for four decades before donating them to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. McNairy also recorded an oral history with the Museum in 2003. - Stephen Fagin, Curator