/internal/media/dispatcher/15588/fullImage of local press photographers in press car during motorcade 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 Plaza1989.100.0011.00120Original 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows Bob Jackson, a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer and Jimmy Darnell, a WBAP photographer in the press car during the presidential motorcade 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 #13A on section 2 of negative strip 11.Photographs644333.60000000002.40000000003418Negative (b&w)Original 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows Bob Jackson, a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer, and Jimmy Darnell, a WBAP photographer, in the back of a press car during the presidential motorcade on Main Street. The press car was about eight cars behind President Kennedy's in the motorcade. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.
PressCamerasPhotographerMain StreetPhotographsMotorcadeBeal, BillJackson, BobDarnell, JimmyDallas Times HeraldWBAP-TVAdolphus HotelDallasBob Jackson was a staff photographer at the Dallas Times Herald in 1963. He covered the presidential party’s arrival at Dallas Love Field and, while riding in a motorcade press car, spotted a rifle in a sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository. He was also at Parkland Memorial Hospital and Dallas police headquarters that day. On Sunday, November 24, 1963, Jackson captured an iconic photograph of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of Dallas police headquarters. His image won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in News Photography. Jackson later covered the 1964 Jack Ruby trial in Dallas. In 2025, Jackson donated to The Sixth Floor Museum more than 20,000 images from his Dallas photojournalism in the 1960s and 1970s.
As a longtime friend of the Museum, he recorded several oral history interviews and programs. His interview from March 2025 may be viewed on the Museum’s online collection database here: Bob Jackson Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.
Other objects related to Bob Jackson, including several of his photographs, may be found here: Thesaurus – Vocabularies – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger This object is featured in the Museum's special exhibit, "On Assignment: Dallas Times Herald 1963," which opened on April 29, 2026.Riding directly in front of Bob Jackson, wearing a trench coat and turned towards the camera, is Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard. Like Bob Jackson, Dillard covered the president's arrival at Dallas Love Field, rode in the motorcade, and later photographed scenes at Parkland Memorial Hospital. - Stephen Fagin, CuratorRiding to Bob Jackson's left is WBAP-TV photographer Jimmy Darnell. Unlike the other TV photographers in the motorcade, Darnell used a sound camera, which required extra, and rather bulky, equipment. Unfortunately, none of the scenes he filmed from the motorcade included a sound track, for it was easier and more efficient to shoot silent. Except for interviews, sound was not nearly as important for news coverage in those days as it today. - Gary Mack, CuratorFrom February 2009 to October 2010 The Sixth Floor Museum presented a temporary exhibit titled "A Photographer's Story: Bob Jackson and the Kennedy Assassination." The exhibit featured the work of Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Bob Jackson, pictured here, and included this photo of the Dallas Times Herald staffer at work the day of the president's visit to Dallas. You can learn more about that exhibit on the exhibits page of the Museum's website. - Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections