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Image of photographers and crowd outside of Parkland Hospital
Image of photographers and crowd outside of Parkland Hospital

Image of photographers and crowd outside of Parkland Hospital

Object number2014.080.0228.0004
Date11/22/1963
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer
ObjectNegative (b&w)
Credit LineThe Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Donated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history
MediumFilm
Dimensions15/16 × 1 5/16 in. (2.4 × 3.3 cm)
Collections
  • "On Assignment: Dallas Times Herald 1963"
  • Parkland Memorial Hospital
  • News Photography
  • The Dallas Morning News Collection
  • All Online Objects
DescriptionOne original 35mm black and white negative image taken by staff photographer Joe Laird from The Dallas Morning News. Dallas Times Herald photographers stand with a crowd of people waiting outside Parkland Memorial Hospital for news of President Kennedy's condition on Friday, November 22, 1963. Standing in the center of the image, wearing a dark coat and looking to the viewer's left, is Dallas Times Herald photographer Bob Jackson. Standing next to him in a light-colored coat is Dallas Times Herald photographer Eamon Kennedy. Left of center is Dallas Times Herald photographer John Mazziotta, adjusting his camera.
Curatorial Commentary
This object is featured in the Museum's special exhibit, "On Assignment: Dallas Times Herald 1963," which opened on April 29, 2026.
Bob Jackson was a staff photographer at the Dallas Times Herald in 1963. He covered the presidential party’s arrival at Dallas Love Field and, while riding in a motorcade press car, spotted a rifle in a sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository. He was also at Parkland Memorial Hospital and Dallas police headquarters that day. On Sunday, November 24, 1963, Jackson captured an iconic photograph of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of Dallas police headquarters. His image won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in News Photography. Jackson later covered the 1964 Jack Ruby trial in Dallas. In 2025, Jackson donated to The Sixth Floor Museum more than 20,000 images from his Dallas photojournalism in the 1960s and 1970s.

As a longtime friend of the Museum, he recorded several oral history interviews and programs. His interview from March 2025 may be viewed on the Museum’s online collection database here: Bob Jackson Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.

Other objects related to Bob Jackson, including several of his photographs, may be found here: Thesaurus – Vocabularies – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger

A native of Ireland, Eamon Kennedy was a staff photographer at the Dallas Times Herald in 1963. On the weekend of the Kennedy assassination, he captured images at Dallas Love Field, Parkland Memorial Hospital, the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff and Dallas police headquarters. He later covered the 1964 Jack Ruby trial and the Warren Commission's visit to Dallas.

As a longtime friend of the Museum, he recorded several oral history interviews and programs. His interview from May 2014 can be viewed on the Museum’s online collection database here: Eamon Kennedy Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.

Other objects related to Mr. Kennedy, including several of his images, may be found here: Thesaurus – Vocabularies – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger