Reporter Hugh Aynesworth interviewing cab driver William Whaley

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Original 120mm black and white negative taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. Hugh Aynesworth, a reporter for The Dallas Morning News, interviews William Whaley, a cab driver who drove Lee Harvey Oswald on the day of the assassination of President Kennedy, in Dallas, Texas. Photo was taken on November 26, 1963.

Object Details

Object title:

Reporter Hugh Aynesworth interviewing cab driver William Whaley

Date:

11/26/1963

Terms:

Interviews

Photographs

Photographer

Reporter

Whaley, William

Aynesworth, Hugh

The Dallas Morning News

Dallas

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)

Credit line:

The Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey PlazaDonated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history

Object number:

2014.080.0359.0002

Curatorial Note:

Dallas Morning News science and aviation reporter Hugh Aynesworth shared his memories of the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath, alongside his friend Pierce Allman, then WFAA Radio program director, during a program at The Sixth Floor Museum in 2016. A video recording of this program can be seen on the Museum's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN6_QqHv3lw. - Stephen Fagin, Curator