/internal/media/dispatcher/49963/fullCharles L. Bronson slide #411/23/19632 × 2 in. (5.1 × 5.1 cm)FilmCharles L. Bronson Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2017.015.0006.00010One 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 fourth Bronson slide that shows an image taken from a pedestal within Dealey Plaza at the southwest corner of Main and Houston streets (this note taken from attached media file - See Notes).
Image is of the Texas School Book Depository building, the Dal-Tex Building, the Dallas County Records Building, and the fountains and obelisk in Dealey Plaza the afternoon following the assassination, Saturday, November 23, 1963. There are groups of people walking along Houston Street in front of Dealey Plaza, and cars driving down Houston and Elm streets. The Dal-Tex Building is in the center of the image and the Dallas County Records Building is on the right side of the image. Only the corner of the Texas School Book Depository building is visible in the image; a tree on the left edge of the image is covering up most of the first through sixth floors of the building and the obelisk in Dealey Plaza obscures the outside corner of the building. The sixth floor corner window is visible in this image. A small portion of the Hertz sign is visible in the far upper left corner of the image.
Slide copyrighted Charles L. Bronson 1978.
There are minimal scratches and dust on the slide. Slide in good condition. (JM 06/23/2017)Photographs654785.08001016005.080010160048937Slide0E-10Original 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 first of two still photographs taken on Saturday, November 23, 1963, and was taken from the same location, the concrete pedestal at the southwest corner of Main and Houston Streets, where Bronson witnessed the assassination the previous day.
The image shows the Texas School Book Depository building, the Dal-Tex Building, the Dallas County Records Building, and the fountains and obelisk in Dealey Plaza the afternoon following the assassination, Saturday, November 23, 1963. Only the southeast corner of the Texas School Book Depository building is visible in the image; a tree on the left edge of the image is covering up most of the first through sixth floors of the building and the obelisk in Dealey Plaza obscures the outside corner of the building. The sixth floor corner window is visible in this image. A small portion of the Hertz sign on the roof of the building is visible in the far upper left corner of the image.
Slide copyrighted Charles L. Bronson 1978.CrowdsAssassinationEyewitnessesPhotographerDealey PlazaDowntown DallasElm StreetHouston StreetBronson, CharlesTexas School Book DepositoryDal-Tex BuildingDallas County Records BuildingDallasOn the afternoon following the assassination, Saturday, November 23, 1963, Bronson and his wife, Frances, returned to Dealey Plaza, accompanied by their daughter Charlette. There Bronson took two additional still photographs from atop the same concrete pedestal where he had witnessed the assassination the day before. He also finished up his roll of film by filming additional scenes from around Dealey Plaza, capturing images of the surrounding buildings and floral tributes and memorials. - Stephen Fagin, Curator