Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows the crowd gathered on Main Street awaiting the presidential motorcade. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows the crowd gathered on Main Street awaiting the presidential motorcade. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows the crowd gathered on Main Street awaiting the presidential motorcade. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows two women and a child gathered on Main Street among the crowd awaiting the presidential motorcade. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows workers looking out from upper story windows on Main Street as they await the presidential motorcade. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows two people in an upper story window above Main Street as they await the presidential motorcade. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows a Dallas police officer directing members of the crowd on Main Street to stay back while awaiting the presidential motorcade. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative by Dallas Times Herald photographer Bill Beal. This image shows the Kennedy motorcade on Main Street in downtown Dallas, photographed from the balcony of the Adolphus Hotel, as it approached the Akard Street intersection.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows the presidential motorcade on Main Street. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows the presidential motorcade on Main Street. The picture was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows the presidential motorcade on Main Street. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows the presidential motorcade on Main Street. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows the presidential motorcade on Main Street. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows the presidential limousine and the Secret Service follow-up car on Main Street. The tops of President and Mrs. Kennedy's heads can just be seen at the back of the presidential limousine. Secret Service agents can be seen standing on the running-board of the follow-up car. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows President Kennedy in the presidential limousine on Main Street. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative by Dallas Times Herald photographer Bill Beal. This image shows the Kennedy limousine in Dallas on Main Street, shortly after passing the Adolphus Hotel balcony. President Kennedy sat in the right rear with his wife Jacqueline to his left; in front of them were Texas Governor John Connally on the right and his wife, Nellie, with Secret Service agents Bill Greer driving and Roy Kellerman to his right. Secret Service Agent Clint Hill rode on the rear bumper briefly at this location.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows President Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie Connally, in the presidential limousine on Main Street. The Secret Service follow-up car is just behind the president's limousine. Agents can be seen standing on the running-board. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows President Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie Connally, in the presidential limousine, followed very closely by a Secret Service car during the most crowded part of the motorcade on Main Street in downtown Dallas. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows Bob Jackson, a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer, and Jimmy Darnell, a WBAP photographer, in the back of a press car during the presidential motorcade on Main Street. The press car was about eight cars behind President Kennedy's in the motorcade. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows the crowd on Main Street after the presidential motorcade passed by. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows the crowd on Main Street spilling into the street after the presidential motorcade passed by. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows the crowd on Main Street after the presidential motorcade passed by. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows the crowd on Main Street after the presidential motorcade passed by. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.

Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer Bill Beal. This image shows a police motorcycle moving through the crowd on Main Street after the presidential motorcade passed by. The image was taken from a balcony at the Adolphus Hotel.