Dallas Police Officers Observing Moment of Silence for J.D. Tippit

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Title

Dallas Police Officers Observing Moment of Silence for J.D. Tippit

Subject

Photograph of Dallas officers taking moment of silence for officer J.D. Tippit at the Department's HQ.

Description

"Original 35mm black and white negative taken by an unidentified Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. This image shows Dallas Police officers in the Dallas Police Department headquarterson Monday, November 25, 1963, observing a moment of silence for slain Dallas Police officer J.D. Tippit. The man near the center of the image, wearing dark glasses, is Dallas Morning News reporter Tony Zoppi." - Sixth Floor Museum

"The fourth man in this line, wearing a dark suit and glasses, is Tony Zoppi, nightclub reporter at The Dallas Morning News and a friend of Jack Ruby. Three days earlier, Zoppi helped carry President Kennedy's casket into Parkland Memorial Hospital. He recorded an oral history with The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in 1992 and passed away in 2012." - Stephen Fagin, Curator

Creator

Dallas Herald Times (unnamed photographer)

Source

http://emuseum.jfk.org/view/objects/asitem/search@swg/4/title-asc?t:state:flow=d844d229-931c-4eee-9f12-fb980219b07d

Publisher

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Date

11/25/1963

Contributor

Katelyn Belz

Rights

All requests for permission to reproduce, publish or broadcast materials in this collection must be submitted to the Museum's registrar, using the Rights & Reproductions Request Form. Inquiries may be sent to registrar@jfk.org.

Format

Photograph, black and white

Type

Photograph

Identifier

1989.100.0049.0017 : Sixth Floor Museum Dealey Plaza Online Collection, Photographs