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Image of Lee Harvey Oswald on a stretcher outside Parkland Hospital
Image of Lee Harvey Oswald on a stretcher outside Parkland Hospital

Image of Lee Harvey Oswald on a stretcher outside Parkland Hospital

Object number2014.080.0255.0006
Date11/24/1963
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer Dallas Morning News Photographer
ObjectNegative (b&w)
Credit LineThe Dallas Morning News Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Donated by The Dallas Morning News in the interest of preserving history
MediumFilm
Dimensions15/16 × 1 5/16 in. (2.4 × 3.3 cm)
Collections
DescriptionOriginal 35mm black and white negative taken by a staff photographer from The Dallas Morning News. A crowd of police officers surrounds Lee Harvey Oswald as he is being transported on a stretcher out of an ambulance at the Emergency entrance to Parkland Memorial Hospital on Sunday, November 24, 1963. Oswald was rushed to Parkland after local nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot him. Dallas police detective Jim Leavelle is the man wearing a light-colored suit and hat in the top center of the image.