Phil Willis Slide #17

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Original 35mm color slide taken by assassination witness Phil Willis showing the intersection of Elm Street and Houston Street, looking north on Houston Street, after the Kennedy assassination. A police car and several Dallas Police officers can be seen on the left, while a fire truck can be seen on the right, directly in front of the Dal-Tex building.

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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 292 times, with 16 in the last month. More information about this photograph can be viewed below.

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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 intersection of Elm Street and Houston Street, looking north on Houston Street, after the Kennedy assassination. A police car and several Dallas Police officers can be seen on the left, while a fire truck can be seen on the right, directly in front of the Dal-Tex building.

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1 photograph : negative, col.

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The Dallas Fire Department truck seen in this photograph was dispatched to assist in the search of the Texas School Book Depository. According to fireman Leslie Warnock, firefighters brought in flood lights, heavy extension cords and a ladder. Warnock and another Dallas fireman, Harry Coombs, were escorted to the seventh floor where they were told to set up flood lights in the small space, commonly called a cockloft, above the finished ceiling. Warnock recalls that law enforcement thought a gunman could be hiding in that space, though no evidence connected to the assassination was found. -- 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/23016

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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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Willis, Phil. Phil Willis Slide #17, photograph, November 22, 1963; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1352818/: accessed April 27, 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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