Image of Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit's wife, Marie, and their children

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Image of Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit's wife, Marie, and their children

Original 120mm black and white negative taken by staff photographer John Flynn from The Dallas Morning News. Officer J.D. Tippit's wife Marie sits on the couch in their Dallas home in November 1963 with her children. Mrs. Tippit holds her younger son Curtis; daughter Brenda and older son Allan are seated on either side of her.

Object Details
Object title:

Image of Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit's wife, Marie, and their children

Date:

November 1963

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:

2014.080.0248.0001

Curatorial Note:

The Tippits' eldest son, Allan, passed away in 2014 following a long battle with lung cancer. The surviving Tippit family members seen in this photograph - widow Marie and children Brenda and Curtis - shared their memories at a public program at The Sixth Floor Museum in 2015, marking what would have been Officer Tippit's 90th birthday. A video of this program can be viewed on the Museum's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bQkpA_D5bo. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

Image of Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit's wife, Marie, and their children

Original 120mm black and white negative taken by staff photographer John Flynn from The Dallas Morning News. Officer J.D. Tippit's wife Marie sits on the couch in their Dallas home in November 1963 with her children. Mrs. Tippit holds her younger son Curtis; daughter Brenda and older son Allan are seated on either side of her.

Object Details
Object title:

Image of Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit's wife, Marie, and their children

Date:

November 1963

Terms:

Photographs

Photographer

Tippit, J.D.

Tippit, Marie

Flynn, John

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:

2014.080.0248.0001

Curatorial Note:

The Tippits' eldest son, Allan, passed away in 2014 following a long battle with lung cancer. The surviving Tippit family members seen in this photograph - widow Marie and children Brenda and Curtis - shared their memories at a public program at The Sixth Floor Museum in 2015, marking what would have been Officer Tippit's 90th birthday. A video of this program can be viewed on the Museum's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bQkpA_D5bo. - Stephen Fagin, Curator