/internal/media/dispatcher/17883/fullBlack and white photograph of flag at half-staff hours after the assassination11/22/19633 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (8.3 x 12.1 cm)PaperJim Walker Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2006.020.00120Original b&w first-generation print showing the U.S. flag at half-staff outside the Oak Cliff post office building the afternoon of the assassination. Image on Kodak paper. Shows the back of two cars.
Back Reads:
"7c" (blue ink) (appears to be random marks, but in the shape of a '7' and a 'c')
"Flag at half mast same day" (blue ink)
In the accompanying binder, Jim Walker has written a summary of the image, which reads:
"Flags all over the world went to half staff at the announcement that the 35th President of the United States had been assassinated. This United States Post Office in Oak Cliff had the first half staff flag I saw after the announcement. Oak Cliff is just across the river from downtown Dallas. It's still Dallas, just called Oak Cliff."Photographs6350912.06502413008.255016510027359Photograph (b&w)0E-10Black and white photograph showing an American flag at half-staff at the Oak Cliff post office in Dallas. The photograph was taken by Jim Walker a few hours after the assassination of President Kennedy.
Oak CliffPhotographsFlagWalker, JimU.S. Postal ServiceDallasThis amateur photograph of a flag at half-staff was taken by Jim Walker, a mail sorter at the Terminal Annex building in Dealey Plaza. Walker took photos of the motorcade from the corner of Main and Market Street. Following the assassination, he also photographed the scene at Dealey Plaza and outside the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff. Mr. Walker, who donated all of his images to the Museum in 2006, recorded an oral history about his experiences on June 6, 2006. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator