Plastic number sign from the door to Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital

This door marker closely resembles the sign on the door in a photograph from the Don Pyeatt Collection (see 2000.049.020).  The door to Trauma  Room One is also visible in a photograph from the Claire Campbell Collection (see 1995.034.0006) but the number sign on the door is obscured by a floral arrangement. - Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections

In a 2009 oral history with The Sixth Floor Museum, donor Timothy Stiles explains that he took this plastic door marker "kind of on a dare" during Emergency medical technician (EMT) training at Parkland Memorial Hospital in the early 1970s.  While working as a jail guard and ambulance driver in the 1970s, Stiles interacted with a number of individuals involved in the assassination story and developed an interest in the subject.  

Shortly after this door marker was removed, in 1973, Trauma Room One as a whole was dismantled and its contents sold to the U.S. Government. Today, that material is stored in an underground government storage facility in Kansas. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator