/internal/media/dispatcher/42185/fullPlastic number sign from the door of Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospitalcirca 19602 x 3 3/16 x 1/16 in. (5.1 x 8.1 x 0.2 cm)PlasticTimothy Stiles Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2010.003.00010****This is in a small envelope in the front of the box; easy to overlook****
Small black plastic #1 door marker from Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital.
Artifacts662568.09626619255.080010160028652Sign0.1587503175Small black plastic sign marked with the number 1 from the door to Trauma Room One at Parkland Hospital.Trauma Room OneSignDallas Times HeraldParkland HospitalDallasThis object is featured in the Museum's special exhibit, "On Assignment: Dallas Times Herald 1963," which opened on April 29, 2026.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 CollectionsIn 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