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Image of a Dallas Police detective with materials for the paraffin test

Original 35mm black and white negative taken by an unidentified Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows an unidentified Dallas Police detective with the materials necessary to conduct a paraffin test at the Dallas Police Department on the evening of November 22, 1963. The test would help determine if suspect Lee Harvey Oswald had gunpowder residue on his person.Darryl Heikes and another, unidentified, Dallas Times Herald photographer attended the midnight press showing. It is not known which of the two photographers took this picture.

Object Details
Object title:

Image of a Dallas Police detective with materials for the paraffin test

Date:

11/22/1963

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

15/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)

Credit line:

Dallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1989.100.0036.0002

Image of a Dallas Police detective with materials for the paraffin test

Original 35mm black and white negative taken by an unidentified Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows an unidentified Dallas Police detective with the materials necessary to conduct a paraffin test at the Dallas Police Department on the evening of November 22, 1963. The test would help determine if suspect Lee Harvey Oswald had gunpowder residue on his person.Darryl Heikes and another, unidentified, Dallas Times Herald photographer attended the midnight press showing. It is not known which of the two photographers took this picture.

Object Details
Object title:

Image of a Dallas Police detective with materials for the paraffin test

Date:

11/22/1963

Terms:

Microphones

Reporter

Evidence

Investigations

Paraffin test

Police

Photographs

Detectives

Heikes, Darryl

Dallas Times Herald

Dallas Police Department

Dallas Police Headquarters

Dallas Municipal Building

Dallas

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

15/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)

Credit line:

Dallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1989.100.0036.0002