{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"48935"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Charles L. Bronson Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Original 35mm color slide taken by Charles L. Bronson while standing on a pedestal in Dealey Plaza at the southwest corner of Main and Houston streets. This is the third of three still photographs taken on November 22, 1963, and the only one taken during the assassination. Bronson took two additional images in Dealey Plaza the following day.\r\n\r\nThe image shows President John F. Kennedy's motorcade driving down Elm Street through Dealey Plaza on Friday, November 22, 1963. This image was taken at approximately the same time as frame Z229 of the Zapruder film. Mr. Bronson stood on the opposite side of Dealey Plaza from Abraham Zapruder. According to Mr. Bronson, the sound of the first shot caused him to instinctively jump and snap this photograph, which is why the image is slightly blurred. \r\n\r\nPeople are running and walking in the direction of Elm Street. Abraham Zapruder is visible along the left side of the image standing on the pedestal outside the pergola in Dealey Plaza. In addition, several other identifiable eyewitnesses are visible in this image.  \r\n\r\nSlide copyrighted Charles L. Bronson 1978."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2017.015.0005.0001"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"One original 35 mm color slide now removed from its original cardboard mount and housed within a black plastic archival mount with the words \"ORIGINAL\" printed in white along the top front edge of the mount. This is the third Bronson slide that shows an image taken from a pedestal within Dealey Plaza at the southwest corner of Main and Houston streets of the presidential limousine during the assassination at Z229/230 (this note taken from attached media file - See Notes).\r\n\r\nImage is of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade driving down Elm Street through Dealey Plaza on Friday, November 22, 1963. This image is the same scene as Z229 from the Zapruder film. The sound of the first shot at President Kennedy caused Mr. Bronson to jump, which is why the image is blurry. This image was taken right at the start of the assassination. Dealey Plaza does not look very crowded in this image, but people are running and walking in the direction of Elm Street. Abraham Zapruder is visible along the left side of the image standing on the pedestal outside the pergola in Dealey Plaza. There are trees in the foreground on the left and right sides of the image. The pergola in Dealey Plaza is visible in the middle of the image in the background.\r\n\r\nSlide copyrighted Charles L. Bronson 1978.\r\n\r\nThere are minimal scratches and dust on the slide. There is a diagonal crease in the film on the proper left half of the slide. (JM 06/23/2017)"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Film"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/49955/full","displayOrder":"1","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"49955"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Charles L. Bronson slide #3"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Photographs"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/49955/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Limousine","Motorcade","Assassination","Eyewitnesses","Photographer","Dealey Plaza","Main Street","Elm Street","Zapruder film","Kennedy, John F.","Kennedy, Jacqueline","Zapruder, Abraham","Bronson, Charles","Dallas"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Slide"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"11/22/1963"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["5.0800101600"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["Forty-five-year-old Charles Bronson, chief engineer of Varel Manufacturing in Dallas, brought two cameras to Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963: a Leica Model III for still photographs and a Keystone Olympic K-25 for color home movies. He and his wife, Frances, stood atop a concrete pedestal at the southwest corner of Main and Houston streets.  Bronson had had a lifelong dream to see a president and was eager to capture images of President Kennedy during his visit to Dallas.\r\n \r\nBronson's Leica, purchased in 1938, was the oldest known camera used in Dealey Plaza on the day of the assassination. It was loaded with daylight Kodachrome film. After taking two still photographs of the presidential limousine near and at the corner of Main and Houston streets - in between brief film sequences - Bronson waited with his Leica to take a third image of the Kennedy motorcade as it made its way down Elm Street. He had intended to wait until the limousine came into full view, but according to Bronson, the sound of the first shot startled him, causing him to jump and snap this slightly blurred image of the assassination in progress.  This slide corresponds approximately with Zapruder frame 229. \r\n\r\nImmediately after taking this still image, Bronson once again raised his Keystone Olympic home movie camera and captured approximately two seconds of the assassination on film, including the fatal shot to President Kennedy. \r\n\r\nThis remarkable still image provides the most panoramic perspective of Dealey Plaza during the Kennedy assassination. A number of eyewitnesses--including Abraham Zapruder, the Newman and Chism families, Charles and Joe Brehm, Jean Hill and Mary Moorman, and the controversial Babushka Lady and Umbrella Man figures--are all visible in this one photograph as the shooting takes place.  - Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"65477"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"2 × 2 in. (5.1 × 5.1 cm)"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["5.0800101600"]}}]}