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Image of men in the fifth and sixth floor corner windows of the Book Depository
Image of men in the fifth and sixth floor corner windows of the Book Depository

Image of men in the fifth and sixth floor corner windows of the Book Depository

Object number2004.058.0396.0005
Date5/9/1964
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer Bill Winfrey
ObjectNegative (b&w)
Credit LineBill Winfrey Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumFilm
Dimensions1 1/2 x 1 in. (3.8 x 2.5 cm)
Collections
DescriptionOriginal black and white 35mm negative on Kodak Tri X Pan Film taken by Dallas Morning News photographer Bill Winfrey on May 9, 1964. The image shows the southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository. A man is visible in the sixth floor corner window and another man leans out of the fifth floor corner window looking up. The men were acting as part of the investigative visit made by the Warren Commission to Dallas in 1964.
Curatorial Commentary
President Kennedy's assassin fired from the corner window on the sixth floor.  Warren Commission investigators appear in both the sixth floor window and in the fifth floor window directly below.  On November 22, 1963, two Book Depository employees watched the president's motorcade from this fifth floor window and heard shells hit the floor above them. - Gary Mack, Curator