Photo printing plate of an officer carrying the rifle from the crime scene
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Photo printing plate of an officer carrying the rifle from the crime scene
Copper-colored metal photo printing plate of J.C. "Carl" Day of the Dallas Police, carrying Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle to his car to be taken to police headquarters. The image is reversed to reproduce correctly on paper.Back side has "Rifle" and initials, possibly CP, written in grease pencil.The printed image from a portion of this plate appeared in the Dallas Times Herald on November 23, 1963.This image is a detail of a photograph taken by a Dallas Times Herald photographer and is represented in the Museum's Dallas Times Herald Collection on a contact sheet.
Photo printing plate of an officer carrying the rifle from the crime scene
11/23/1963
Metal
Other: 6 1/2 × 3 3/4 × 1/16 in. (16.5 × 9.5 × 0.2 cm)
Jack H. and Jane C. McNairy Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2003.061.0005
Donor Jack McNairy was a high school student in 1963 and worked part-time at the Dallas Times Herald. Within days of the Kennedy assassination, McNairy noticed a stack of recently-used photographic printing plates that had been discarded in a bin to be melted down and recycled. Sensing that these photographic plates had historic value, McNairy saved as many as he could and kept them for four decades before donating them to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. McNairy also recorded an oral history with the Museum in 2003. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Photo printing plate of an officer carrying the rifle from the crime scene
Copper-colored metal photo printing plate of J.C. "Carl" Day of the Dallas Police, carrying Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle to his car to be taken to police headquarters. The image is reversed to reproduce correctly on paper.Back side has "Rifle" and initials, possibly CP, written in grease pencil.The printed image from a portion of this plate appeared in the Dallas Times Herald on November 23, 1963.This image is a detail of a photograph taken by a Dallas Times Herald photographer and is represented in the Museum's Dallas Times Herald Collection on a contact sheet.
Photo printing plate of an officer carrying the rifle from the crime scene
11/23/1963
Assassination
Rifles
Day, Carl
Dallas Times Herald
Dallas
Metal
Other: 6 1/2 × 3 3/4 × 1/16 in. (16.5 × 9.5 × 0.2 cm)
Jack H. and Jane C. McNairy Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2003.061.0005
Donor Jack McNairy was a high school student in 1963 and worked part-time at the Dallas Times Herald. Within days of the Kennedy assassination, McNairy noticed a stack of recently-used photographic printing plates that had been discarded in a bin to be melted down and recycled. Sensing that these photographic plates had historic value, McNairy saved as many as he could and kept them for four decades before donating them to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. McNairy also recorded an oral history with the Museum in 2003. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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