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Image of D.A. Henry Wade's press conference at the Dallas Police Department
Image of D.A. Henry Wade's press conference at the Dallas Police Department

Image of D.A. Henry Wade's press conference at the Dallas Police Department

Object number1989.100.0036.0013
Date11/23/1963
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer Dallas Times Herald photographer
ObjectNegative (b&w)
Credit LineDallas 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 an unidentified Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows Dallas County Criminal District Attorney Henry Wade's press conference immediately after Lee Harvey Oswald exited the jail basement assembly room at Dallas Police Department headquarters. Ike Pappas of WNEW Radio in New York and Tom Pettit of NBC can be seen in the image on the right. Darryl Heikes and another, unidentified, Dallas Times Herald photographer attended the midnight press showing. It is not known which of the two photographers took this picture.