Phil Willis Slide #8 (Willis 6)

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Original 35mm color slide taken by assassination witness Phil Willis showing the end of the motorcade right after the Kennedy assassination. Several males can be seen running west on the south side of Elm Street, towards the triple underpass. A number of vehicles can be seen, including the front end of the White House press bus on the right edge of the image. A station wagon is stopped on Elm Street with the driver's side rear door open. This image is commonly known as "Willis 6" by assassination researchers.

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Willis, Phil November 22, 1963.

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This photograph is part of the collection entitled: John F. Kennedy Memorial Collection and was provided by the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 4269 times, with 172 in the last month. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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  • The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

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The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza first opened its doors in 1989 on the sixth and seventh floors of the building formerly known as the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, the site of the infamous assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

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Original 35mm color slide taken by assassination witness Phil Willis showing the end of the motorcade right after the Kennedy assassination. Several males can be seen running west on the south side of Elm Street, towards the triple underpass. A number of vehicles can be seen, including the front end of the White House press bus on the right edge of the image. A station wagon is stopped on Elm Street with the driver's side rear door open. This image is commonly known as "Willis 6" by assassination researchers.

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1 photograph : negative, col.

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Phil Willis took this photograph approximately thirty seconds after the fatal shot was fired. Seen from behind, the running man with the crewcut in the near-center of this photograph is eyewitness Pierce Allman, program director at WFAA Radio. Shortly after this photo was taken, Allman believes that he encountered Lee Harvey Oswald exiting the Texas School Book Depository. Allman went inside, claimed a telephone, and made a now-famous breathless live report on the president's shooting from inside the Depository. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza also publishes this record online: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/23010

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John F. Kennedy Memorial Collection

This collection contains newspapers, correspondence, legal documents, police reports, photographs, and video footage documenting the weekend of President Kennedy’s assassination as well as the subsequent investigations into both Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby.

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  • November 22, 1963

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  • July 7, 2021, 9:39 p.m.

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  • Aug. 30, 2021, 8:42 a.m.

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Willis, Phil. Phil Willis Slide #8 (Willis 6), photograph, November 22, 1963; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1352812/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.

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