Phil Willis Slide #16

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Original 35mm color slide taken by assassination witness Phil Willis showing the upper 3 floors of the Texas School Book Depository building. Two of the windows are open, but neither window is the 6th floor "sniper's perch" window.

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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 170 times, with 10 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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Description

Original 35mm color slide taken by assassination witness Phil Willis showing the upper 3 floors of the Texas School Book Depository building. Two of the windows are open, but neither window is the 6th floor "sniper's perch" window.

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1 photograph : negative, col.

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The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza also publishes this record online: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/23015

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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, 8:43 a.m.

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Willis, Phil. Phil Willis Slide #16, photograph, November 22, 1963; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1352817/: 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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