Peerless steel handcuffs, keys and leather holster used by Elmer Boyd
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Peerless steel handcuffs, keys and leather holster used by Elmer Boyd
Peerless steel handcuffs, keys and leather holster used by Dallas police homicide detective Elmer Boyd during the weekend of the Kennedy assassination. Boyd used these handcuffs to restrain suspect Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963 after his first interrogation session with Captain Will Fritz at Dallas police headquarters.
Peerless steel handcuffs, keys and leather holster used by Elmer Boyd
1963
Other: 3 1/2 × 3 in. (8.9 × 7.6 cm)
Elmer Boyd Collection\The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2023.011.0005
Although Elmer Boyd appears in news footage and a number of photographs from the weekend of the assassination, by far the best and most famous image is the one taken by Dallas Morning News photographer Bill Winfrey as Boyd escorted suspect Lee Harvey Oswald into the third floor hallway of police headquarters after his first interrogation with Captain Will Fritz. Winfrey managed to perfectly frame and capture the very brief moment when Oswald raised his fists in the air, defiantly displaying this pair of handcuffs and - according to some researchers - giving a Communist sign. That image may be found here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/11908. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Elmer Boyd's 2007 oral history may be viewed in full here: Elmer Boyd Oral History – Search boyd (Objects) – Search – eMuseum (jfk.org). His 2015 public program may be found on the Museum's YouTube channel: Living History with Elmer Boyd - YouTube. As of the 60th anniversary of the assassination in November 2023, Elmer Boyd is the last surviving Dallas police homicide detective that was involved in the Kennedy assassination investigation. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Peerless steel handcuffs, keys and leather holster used by Elmer Boyd
Peerless steel handcuffs, keys and leather holster used by Dallas police homicide detective Elmer Boyd during the weekend of the Kennedy assassination. Boyd used these handcuffs to restrain suspect Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963 after his first interrogation session with Captain Will Fritz at Dallas police headquarters.
Peerless steel handcuffs, keys and leather holster used by Elmer Boyd
1963
Assassination
Police
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Boyd, Elmer
Other: 3 1/2 × 3 in. (8.9 × 7.6 cm)
Elmer Boyd Collection\The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2023.011.0005
Although Elmer Boyd appears in news footage and a number of photographs from the weekend of the assassination, by far the best and most famous image is the one taken by Dallas Morning News photographer Bill Winfrey as Boyd escorted suspect Lee Harvey Oswald into the third floor hallway of police headquarters after his first interrogation with Captain Will Fritz. Winfrey managed to perfectly frame and capture the very brief moment when Oswald raised his fists in the air, defiantly displaying this pair of handcuffs and - according to some researchers - giving a Communist sign. That image may be found here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/11908. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Elmer Boyd's 2007 oral history may be viewed in full here: Elmer Boyd Oral History – Search boyd (Objects) – Search – eMuseum (jfk.org). His 2015 public program may be found on the Museum's YouTube channel: Living History with Elmer Boyd - YouTube. As of the 60th anniversary of the assassination in November 2023, Elmer Boyd is the last surviving Dallas police homicide detective that was involved in the Kennedy assassination investigation. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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