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Image of cab driver William Whaley at the Dallas Police Department headquarters
Image of cab driver William Whaley at the Dallas Police Department headquarters

Image of cab driver William Whaley at the Dallas Police Department headquarters

Object number1989.100.0043.0008
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)
Collections
DescriptionOriginal 35mm black and white negative taken by an unidentified Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows cab driver William Whaley at the Dallas Police Department headquarters on November 23, 1963. Whaley drove Lee Harvey Oswald from the Greyhound station in downtown Dallas to Oak Cliff shortly after the assassination.
Curatorial Commentary
Pictures are overexposed when too much light enters the aperture, producing images that are washed out and lacking detail. Most of the images on this strip appear overly bright because they were overexposed.  When Museum staff scanned this negative strip in 2012, they used photo editing software to try to correct the overexposure, allowing us to see some detail in the images that was not visible before.  - Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections