Photograph of Elm Street from the southeast corner window

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Photograph of Elm Street from the southeast corner window

Black and white photographic print taken by the Dallas police crime lab of the view of Elm Street and Dealey Plaza from the southeast corner window "sniper's perch" of the Texas School Book Depository.All crime scene photos taken inside the Texas School Book Depository that day were shot either by Detective Robert L. Studebaker or, in a few cases, the head of the Dallas Police Crime Scene Search Unit, Lt. J. C. "Carl" Day. R. W. "Rusty" Livingston, also an employee of the police crime lab, developed many of the images taken by Studebaker and Day. This collection of prints is a first-generation set of copies he kept for himself.

Object Details
Object title:

Photograph of Elm Street from the southeast corner window

Date:

11/22/1963

Medium:

Paper

Dimensions:

8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)

Credit line:

Dallas Police Department photograph, R. W. "Rusty" Livingston Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2002.002.0047

Curatorial Note:

This photograph shows the boxes in the sniper's perch not as they were found but after they were rearranged by investigators. Dallas Police photographed the area, then moved the boxes while looking for fingerprints; later, they returned the boxes but got their positions wrong. Although the correct images were identified for Warren Commission investigators, the inaccurate pictures have led to public confusion about the scene. - Gary Mack, Curator

Photograph of Elm Street from the southeast corner window

Black and white photographic print taken by the Dallas police crime lab of the view of Elm Street and Dealey Plaza from the southeast corner window "sniper's perch" of the Texas School Book Depository.All crime scene photos taken inside the Texas School Book Depository that day were shot either by Detective Robert L. Studebaker or, in a few cases, the head of the Dallas Police Crime Scene Search Unit, Lt. J. C. "Carl" Day. R. W. "Rusty" Livingston, also an employee of the police crime lab, developed many of the images taken by Studebaker and Day. This collection of prints is a first-generation set of copies he kept for himself.

Object Details
Object title:

Photograph of Elm Street from the southeast corner window

Date:

11/22/1963

Terms:

Sniper's perch

Boxes

Dealey Plaza

Investigations

Photographs

Assassination

Livingston, R. W. "Rusty"

Day, Carl

Studebaker, Robert L.

Dallas Police Department

Texas School Book Depository

Dallas Police Crime Scene Search Unit

Dallas

Medium:

Paper

Dimensions:

8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)

Credit line:

Dallas Police Department photograph, R. W. "Rusty" Livingston Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2002.002.0047

Curatorial Note:

This photograph shows the boxes in the sniper's perch not as they were found but after they were rearranged by investigators. Dallas Police photographed the area, then moved the boxes while looking for fingerprints; later, they returned the boxes but got their positions wrong. Although the correct images were identified for Warren Commission investigators, the inaccurate pictures have led to public confusion about the scene. - Gary Mack, Curator