Title from caption on object: "Photograph of 'Three Tramps' Arrested in Dallas..."

November 22, 1963, printed later

William Allen

Artist, American, born 1939

Three men in coats and slacks walk in a line behind a man in a police uniform in this vertical black and white photograph. Another police officer stands or walks near the back of the group. They all are cleanshaven and appear to have light skin, though the face of the man directly behind the police officer at the front is in deep shadow. The officers wear dark uniforms with light-colored badges on the chests, and caps with narrow, curved brims. The officer at the front of the group takes up the rightmost third of the photograph. One arm swings back as he strides forward, and he holds a rifle down by his other side. A revolver is in a holster on that hip. Two of the three men walking behind the officer look down, and the third man there wears a fedora and looks off to our right. The faces of the second and third man are circled with black. The scene is lit from our left, and the people cast long, dark shadows. They walk away from a traffic light on a pole to our left and a building spanning the background. The light-colored walls to either side of the dark doorway of the building appear to be pierced or textured. People stand among cars in front of the building. Typed text in the margin over the picture reads, “DALLAS – 1963.” Short dashes are drawn with orange crayon on the edges of the long sides of the picture near the upper corners. A curving mark over a horizontal orange dash crop the top right corner.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 26.3 × 21 cm (10 3/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 28 × 21.6 cm (11 × 8 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.208.18

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jo Tartt, Jr., Warrenton, VA; NGA purchase, 2015.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

across top printed in black ink: DALLAS--1963; crop marks upper left and upper right in orange crayon; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in black ink underlined and circled in black ink: John F. Kennedy; upper center stamped in black ink: DAILY NEWS / JAN 30 1975; upper center in black ink underlined: Assassination; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: Photograph of "three tramps" arrested in Dallas in 1963, which was released by Dick Gregory Thursday.; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: Dick Gregory, comedian and / social activist, suggested / Thursday that two Central In- / telligence Agency agents in- / volved in Watergate may have / played a role in the assassina- / tion of President Kennedy in / 1963. / Gregory also suggested CIA- / sinvolvement [sic] i[n] the slaying of / sinvolvement [sic] in the slaying of / Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in / 1968. / Gregory and an associate, / Ralph Schoenman, raised / questions azbout[sic] both slayings / at a press conference in the / Continental Plaza Hotel. / Schoenman, of Pennigton, / N.J. described himself as / "creative associate" of the / late British philosopher Ber- / trand Russell. / AFTER THE press confer- / ence, they flew to Washington / to present theirinformation[sic] to / a presidential commission in- / vestigating the CIA, headed by / Vice President Newlson Rock- / efeller. / Gregory released large / blown-up photographs of / "three tramps" arrested in / Dallas near the scene of the / Kennedy assassination. / He also released blown-up / photos of Watergate break-in / participants E. Howard Hunt / and Frank Sturgis, former CIA / agents

Wikidata ID

Q64144785

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