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Image of schoolgirl Kathey Atkinson reacting to news of the president's death
Image of schoolgirl Kathey Atkinson reacting to news of the president's death

Image of schoolgirl Kathey Atkinson reacting to news of the president's death

Object number1989.100.0013.0002
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. This image, taken at Parkland Hospital on November 22, 1963, shows Dallas schoolgirl Kathey Atkinson, standing next to her mother Wilda (far left), reacting to news of the president's death.
Curatorial Commentary
Kathey Atkinson saw President and Mrs. Kennedy at Dallas Love Field earlier that morning. At the moment that this photograph was taken outside of Parkland Memorial Hospital, she and her mother were reacting to news from a Catholic priest that the president had died. This photograph, published on the front page of the Dallas Times Herald the following day, was distributed internationally.  Dallas Times Herald women's news editor Vivian Castleberry called it "a symbol of the world's grief." - Stephen Fagin, Curator