/internal/media/dispatcher/16025/fullImage of Dallas Police officers observing a moment of silence for Officer Tippit11/25/196315/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)FilmDallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1989.100.0049.00190Original 35mm black and white negative taken by an unidentified Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows unidentified Dallas Police officers observing a moment of silence for slain Dallas Police officer J.D. Tippit in the Dallas Police Department headquarters on November 25, 1963.
The negative is on Kodak Tri-X Pan Film. This image is labeled #29 on section 5 of negative strip 49.Photographs647153.60000000002.40000000004254Negative (b&w)Original 35mm black and white negative taken by an unidentified Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. This image shows Dallas Police officers in the Dallas Police Department headquarterson Monday, November 25, 1963, observing a moment of silence for slain Dallas Police officer J.D. Tippit. The man near the center of the image, wearing dark glasses, is Dallas Morning News reporter Tony Zoppi.
MemorialsPolicePhotographsTippit, J.D.Zoppi, TonyDallas Times HeraldDallas Police HeadquartersDallas Municipal BuildingDallas Police DepartmentDallasThe fourth man in this line, wearing a dark suit and glasses, is Tony Zoppi, nightclub reporter at The Dallas Morning News and a friend of Jack Ruby. Three days earlier, Zoppi helped carry President Kennedy's casket into Parkland Memorial Hospital. He recorded an oral history with The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in 1992 and passed away in 2012. - Stephen Fagin, Curator