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Image of an assassination eyewitness at the Dallas County Sheriff's office
Image of an assassination eyewitness at the Dallas County Sheriff's office

Image of an assassination eyewitness at the Dallas County Sheriff's office

Object number1989.100.0022.0007
Date11/22/1963
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer Darryl Heikes
ObjectNegative (b&w)
Credit LineDarryl Heikes, 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)
DescriptionOriginal 35mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald and United Press International photographer Darryl Heikes. This image shows assassination eyewitness Charles Brehm giving a telephone interview while at the Dallas County Sheriff's office the afternoon of November 22, 1963.
Curatorial Commentary

Charles Brehm, with his five year old son Joe, watched the Kennedy motorcade from the northwest corner of Main and Houston, then ran across the grass to the south side of Elm Street.  Like Mary Moorman and Jean Hill, he was one of the closest eyewitnesses to the limo and he reported what he saw to the FBI and other investigators.  Brehm was one of the first eyewitnesses questioned in the Dallas County Sheriff’s office.  He was not called before the Warren Commission.  Brehm believed the second of three shots hit President Kennedy in the head and all shots came from one of the buildings at the Elm & Houston intersection.

This photograph was taken while Brehm gave a filmed interview to NBC News and, via telephone, to a local radio station (believed to be either WBAP or KLIF). – Gary Mack, Curator