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Image of Lee Harvey Oswald in handcuffs at the Dallas Police Department
Image of Lee Harvey Oswald in handcuffs at the Dallas Police Department

Image of Lee Harvey Oswald in handcuffs at the Dallas Police Department

Object number1994.003.0025.0002
Date11/22/1963
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer Bill Winfrey
ObjectNegative (b&w)
Credit LineBill Winfrey, photographer, Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumFilm
Dimensions2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)
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DescriptionOriginal black and white negative by Dallas Morning News photographer Bill Winfrey. The image shows suspect Lee Harvey Oswald being escorted by homicide detective Elmer Boyd through a doorwary into an office of Dallas police headquarters after his first interrogation session with Captain Will Fritz on November 22, 1963. Associated Press photographer Ferd Kauffman can be seen behind Detective Boyd, raising his camera to take an image.
Curatorial Commentary
In their 1964 Report, the Warren Commission described the third floor of Dallas police headquarters like this: "The focal center of the Police and Courts Building during Oswald's detention was the third floor, which housed the main offices of the Dallas Police Department. The public elevators on this floor opened into a lobby midpoint of a corridor that extended along the length of the floor for about 140 feet. At one end of this 7-foot-wide corridor were the offices occupied by Chief of Police Jesse E. Curry and his immediate subordinates; at the other end was a small pressroom that could accommodate only a handful of reporters. Along this corridor were other police offices, including those of the major detective bureaus. Between the pressroom and the lobby was the complex of offices belonging to the homicide and robbery bureau, headed by Capt. J. Will Fritz." Warren Commission Exhibit No. 2175 is a third floor layout of Dallas police headquarters. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator