Image of Lee Harvey Oswald in handcuffs at the Dallas Police Department
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Image of Lee Harvey Oswald in handcuffs at the Dallas Police Department
Original black and white negative by Dallas Morning News photographer Bill Winfrey. The image shows suspect Lee Harvey Oswald being escorted by homicide detective Elmer Boyd in the third floor hallway of Dallas Police Department headquarters after his first interrogation session with Captain Will Fritz on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
Image of Lee Harvey Oswald in handcuffs at the Dallas Police Department
11/22/1963
Film
2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)
Bill Winfrey, photographer, Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1994.003.0025.0001
In their 1964 Report, the Warren Commission described the third floor of Dallas police headquarters like this: "The focal center of the Police and Courts Building during Oswald's detention was the third floor, which housed the main offices of the Dallas Police Department. The public elevators on this floor opened into a lobby midpoint of a corridor that extended along the length of the floor for about 140 feet. At one end of this 7-foot-wide corridor were the offices occupied by Chief of Police Jesse E. Curry and his immediate subordinates; at the other end was a small pressroom that could accommodate only a handful of reporters. Along this corridor were other police offices, including those of the major detective bureaus. Between the pressroom and the lobby was the complex of offices belonging to the homicide and robbery bureau, headed by Capt. J. Will Fritz." Warren Commission Exhibit No. 2175 is a third floor layout of Dallas police headquarters. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
In addition to Det. Elmer Boyd on the right in this photograph, suspect Lee Harvey Oswald was also escorted that afternoon by Det. Richard M. Sims (left in cowboy hat) and Dt. Guy Hall, slightly visible in the cowboy hat behind Boyd. The man on the far right holding the 16mm film camera is WFAA-TV photographer Ron Reiland, who had earlier taken film at the Tippit shooting scene and various Oak Cliff locations while police searched for a suspect. Reiland then took footage inside the Texas Theatre as Oswald was escorted into a police car. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Image of Lee Harvey Oswald in handcuffs at the Dallas Police Department
Original black and white negative by Dallas Morning News photographer Bill Winfrey. The image shows suspect Lee Harvey Oswald being escorted by homicide detective Elmer Boyd in the third floor hallway of Dallas Police Department headquarters after his first interrogation session with Captain Will Fritz on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
Image of Lee Harvey Oswald in handcuffs at the Dallas Police Department
11/22/1963
Police
Detectives
Reporter
Photographer
Press
Photographs
Winfrey, Bill
Boyd, Elmer
Oswald, Lee Harvey
The Dallas Morning News
Dallas Police Headquarters
Dallas Municipal Building
Dallas Police Department
Dallas
Film
2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)
Bill Winfrey, photographer, Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
1994.003.0025.0001
In their 1964 Report, the Warren Commission described the third floor of Dallas police headquarters like this: "The focal center of the Police and Courts Building during Oswald's detention was the third floor, which housed the main offices of the Dallas Police Department. The public elevators on this floor opened into a lobby midpoint of a corridor that extended along the length of the floor for about 140 feet. At one end of this 7-foot-wide corridor were the offices occupied by Chief of Police Jesse E. Curry and his immediate subordinates; at the other end was a small pressroom that could accommodate only a handful of reporters. Along this corridor were other police offices, including those of the major detective bureaus. Between the pressroom and the lobby was the complex of offices belonging to the homicide and robbery bureau, headed by Capt. J. Will Fritz." Warren Commission Exhibit No. 2175 is a third floor layout of Dallas police headquarters. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
In addition to Det. Elmer Boyd on the right in this photograph, suspect Lee Harvey Oswald was also escorted that afternoon by Det. Richard M. Sims (left in cowboy hat) and Dt. Guy Hall, slightly visible in the cowboy hat behind Boyd. The man on the far right holding the 16mm film camera is WFAA-TV photographer Ron Reiland, who had earlier taken film at the Tippit shooting scene and various Oak Cliff locations while police searched for a suspect. Reiland then took footage inside the Texas Theatre as Oswald was escorted into a police car. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
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