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Image of two young men talking to reporters outside Parkland Hospital
Image of two young men talking to reporters outside Parkland Hospital

Image of two young men talking to reporters outside Parkland Hospital

Object number2014.080.0231.0002
Date11/22/1963
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer Tom C. Dillard
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
Dimensions1 5/16 × 15/16 in. (3.3 × 2.4 cm)
Collections
DescriptionOriginal 35mm black and white negative taken by photographer Tom Dillard from The Dallas Morning News. The image shows two young men talking with reporters outside of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, November 22, 1963. Charles Hodges is on the left, and Mike Cargile is on the right, wearing glasses.
Curatorial Commentary

After watching the presidential limousine exit Stemmons Freeway moments after the assassination, a group of students from W.W. Samuell High School in Dallas drove to Parkland Memorial Hospital. Pictured here are two of those students: Charles Hodges (left) and Mike Cargile (right). These two and several of their classmates appear in numerous photographs taken outside the Emergency entrance to Parkland that afternoon. Unidentified for many years, a series of interviews recorded as part of The Sixth Floor Museum's Oral History Project helped shed some light on their unique experiences that day.

You can learn more about these students from W.W. Samuell High School and the research that went into their photo identification in this public program, "Moments & Memories," recorded at The Sixth Floor Museum in 2015. Their story begins at the 51-minute mark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxka6WU8heo. - Stephen Fagin, Curator