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Image of crowd outside Parkland Hospital the afternoon of the assassination
Image of crowd outside Parkland Hospital the afternoon of the assassination

Image of crowd outside Parkland Hospital the afternoon of the assassination

Object number1989.100.0012.0006
Date11/22/1963
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer Eamon Kennedy
ObjectNegative (b&w)
Credit LineEamon Kennedy, photographer, Dallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumFilm
Dimensions15/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)
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DescriptionOriginal 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Eamon Kennedy showing the crowd outside Parkland Hospital reacting to news of President Kennedy’s condition on November 22, 1963. The man wearing the cowboy hat is Hurchel Jacks, a Texas Department of Public Safety employee. The images on this negative strip were taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Eamon Kennedy. There were three photographers at Parkland Hospital that day: John Mazziotta, Bob Jackson and Eamon Kennedy.
Curatorial Commentary
Hurchel Jacks drove the vice presidential vehicle, a Lincoln convertible, two cars behind the Kennedy limousine in the Dallas parade. - Stephen Fagin, Curator