/internal/media/dispatcher/15585/fullImage of the presidential limousine on Main Street11/22/196315/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)FilmBill Beal, photographer, Dallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1989.100.0011.00100Original 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows President Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie Connally seated in the presidential limousine followed by the Secret Service vehicle on Main Street the morning of November 22, 1963. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.
The negative is on Kodak Tri-X Pan Film. The image is labeled #11A on section 2 of negative strip 11.Photographs644313.60000000002.40000000003414Negative (b&w)Original 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows President Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie Connally, in the presidential limousine on Main Street. The Secret Service follow-up car is just behind the president's limousine. Agents can be seen standing on the running-board. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.
Main StreetLimousineMotorcadePhotographsCrowdsBeal, BillConnally, NellieKennedy, JacquelineKennedy, John F.Connally, JohnDallas Times HeraldAdolphus HotelSecret ServiceDallasNotice the driver's door open on the presidential limousine. This tactic was used in heavily crowded areas to move spectators farther back from the motorcade. This was necessary since, as seen in this photograph, the car stayed to the left, keeping President Kennedy as far away from the crowds as possible. This put Mrs. Kennedy, in the words of U.S. Secret Service agent Clint Hill, "in a jeopardizing position." Hill, as seen here, rode on the back of the presidential limousine whenever he felt that the crowds were too close to Mrs. Kennedy. - Stephen Fagin, Curator Notice how the president's coat was bunched up near his neck. The president wore a back brace that caused his jacket to ride up. The unnatural shifting of the coat to a higher-than-normal position caused investigators and conspiracy theorists some confusion when trying to line up the bullet hole in the coat with the entry hole in Kennedy's body. With the coat in its normal position, one might mistakenly conclude the hole was actually lower on his body. Such differences are part of the Single Bullet Theory, which is both lauded and derided by those who study the assassination. - Gary Mack, Curator