Photographer Ira J. Beers, Jr.

Ira J. Beers, Jr. monument at Kildare Cemetery
Ira J. Beers, Jr. monument at Kildare Cemetery

I ventured to East Texas to find the final resting place of Ira J. Beers, Jr. Mr. Beers was a staff photographer for The Dallas Morning News, one of the two major news papers for Dallas metro area, the other paper being the Dallas Times Herald1. I believe Beers was in President Kennedy’s motorcade in Dallas on Friday, November 22, 1963. I know Beers was in the basement of the Dallas Police Headquarters on Sunday, November 24, 1963, for the transfer of Lee Harvey Oswald from the city jail to the county jail. Continue reading “Photographer Ira J. Beers, Jr.”