Nat Pinkston Collection

This collection of black and white photographic prints was produced by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and includes images of Dealey Plaza, the Texas School Book Depository and related sites. The photographs were used to document Oswald’s actions immediately following the assassination and are from the collection of retired agent Nat A. Pinkston. Pinkston (1915 - 2011) was a Dallas attorney prior to joining the FBI. 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.