Photo of the rifle location in the Texas School Book Depository building

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Black and white photographic print of the location where a rifle was discovered in the northwest corner of the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building. The photo was taken in November 1963 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as evidence in the days following the assassination of President Kennedy. Most of the photograph is taken up with three rows of stacked cardboard boxes; some labeled "Books." the center row of boxes is only one-box high. Part of a window is visible at the center top of the photograph.

Object Details

Object title:

Photo of the rifle location in the Texas School Book Depository building

Date:

November 1963

Terms:

Boxes

Photographs

Sniper's perch

Windows

Investigations

Evidence

Pinkston, Nat A.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Texas School Book Depository

Dallas

Medium:

Paper

Dimensions:

5 x 4 in. (12.7 x 10.2 cm)

Credit line:

Nat Pinkston Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2003.006.0008

Curatorial Note:

This FBI photographic print was in the personal collection of retired agent Nat A. Pinkston (1915-2011). Pinkston was a Dallas attorney prior to joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He retired from the Dallas FBI office in 1967 after twenty-eight years of service. Pinkston was involved in the local assassination investigation, notably tracing ownership of the Mannlicher-Carcano found in the Depository to employee Lee Harvey Oswald. He was also dispatched to the Texas School Book Depository on December 2, 1963, after Lee Harvey Oswald's clipboard was discovered in the northwest corner of the sixth floor near where the rifle had been found shortly after the assassination. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator