/internal/media/dispatcher/9622/fullPhoto printing plate with two images of mourners outside Parkland Hospital11/23/19634 13/16 × 7 11/16 × 1/16 in. (12.2 × 19.5 × 0.2 cm)MetalJack H. and Jane C. McNairy Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2003.061.00040Copper-colored metal photo printing plate with 2 images of bystanders reacting to the news of the assassination. The image on the left side of the plate shows a woman wearing sunglasses covering her mouth with her hand and a dark-haired woman trying to comfort her with others in the background. The image on the right shows two African-American young women crying. The image on the left is slightly wider than the one on the right and the two images are separated by a deep groove.
Labeled "RIP" and initials, possibly CP or CD, in grease pencil on back. Back side has round logos with "Micro-Metal Photoengravers Plates, ® made in USA" printed repeatedly.
The right side of the plate is slightly taller than the left side.Artifacts6402519.526289052612.223774447524514Printing plate0.1587503175Copper-colored metal photo printing plate with two images of bystanders outside of Parkland Hospital reacting to the news of President Kennedy's assassination. The images are reversed to reproduce correctly on paper.
The two images are separated by a deep groove. Labeled "RIP" and initials, possibly CP or CD, in grease pencil on back. The right side of the plate is slightly taller than the left side.
The image on the right is a detail of a photograph taken by Dallas Times Herald photographer Eamon Kennedy and is represented in the Museum's Dallas Times Herald Collection by the original negative. The photographer of the image on the left is unknown.
AssassinationMournersKennedy, EamonParkland HospitalDallas Times HeraldDallasA native of Ireland, Eamon Kennedy was a staff photographer at the Dallas Times Herald in 1963. On the weekend of the Kennedy assassination, he captured images at Dallas Love Field, Parkland Memorial Hospital, the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff and Dallas police headquarters. He later covered the 1964 Jack Ruby trial and the Warren Commission's visit to Dallas.
As a longtime friend of the Museum, he recorded several oral history interviews and programs. His interview from May 2014 can be viewed on the Museum’s online collection database here: Eamon Kennedy Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.
Other objects related to Mr. Kennedy, including several of his images, may be found here: Thesaurus – Vocabularies – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger Donor 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 This object is featured in the Museum's special exhibit, "On Assignment: Dallas Times Herald 1963," which opened on April 29, 2026.