/internal/media/dispatcher/26295/fullImage of Bob Huffaker interviewing Lt. Richard E. Swain where Oswald was shot11/24/19632 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.6 cm)FilmTom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1994.003.0031.00020Black and white 120 film negative showing an image of Bob Huffaker interviewing Dallas Police detective Lt. Richard E. Swain in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters on November 24, 1963. The image was taken by a photographer from The Dallas Morning News.
The photograph shows Bob Huffaker talking to Dallas Police detective Lt. Richard E. Swain after the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. In the image, Huffaker and Swain are left of center: Huffaker is between the photographer and Swain. Huffaker holds a microphone in his right hand. Both men are wearing suits; Swain is wearing a cowboy hat.
Swain is facing the direction of the camera and pointing toward the photographer with his right hand. Huffaker has his back mostly to the camera, but he is partially turned to his left side; his gaze is following the direction that Swain is pointing in.
In the background, the car ramp leading to the outside can be seen; the men appear to be standing in the middle of the building's driveway. The vehicle entrance is visible on the upper left side. On the right side, a doorway can be seen, and there is a police officer in uniform walking in the direction of the ramp.
The Dallas Morning News photographers recounted where they were throughout the day on November 22, 1963, and some also related their locations in the following days and months when they were photographing events related to the assassination (such as Lee Harvey Oswald’s transfer or the Jack Ruby Trial). Their descriptions can be found in the Belo Collection at SMU; The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza's reading room has copies of these accounts available upon request. In cases where the specific photographer who took an image is not known, the potential photographers can be narrowed down to those who said they were at the image’s location. For this image, Jack Beers was the only photographer who reported being present when the photograph was taken, but there could have been another photographer who was present and did not write about the event in their record.Photographs652085.60000000005.600000000011929Negative (b&w)0E-10Original black and white negative by a Dallas Morning News photographer. This image shows KRLD reporter Bob Huffaker interviewing Lt. Richard E. Swain of the Burglary and Theft Bureau of the Dallas Police Departmentthe basement of Dallas police headquarters where Lee Harvey Oswald was shot on November 24, 1963.PoliceDetectivesReporterPhotographsBasementBeers, JackHuffaker, BobThe Dallas Morning NewsDallas Police HeadquartersDallas Municipal BuildingKRLD News - DallasDallasJack Beers was the only photographer who reported being present when the photograph was taken, but there could have been another photographer who was present and did not write about the event in their record. - Stephanie Allen-GIvens, Collections and Exhibits ManagerIn this photo taken shortly after the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, KRLD-TV reporter Bob Huffaker is seen interviewing Lt. Richard E. Swain of the Burglary and Theft Bureau of the Dallas Police Department. In a 2009 education program at the Museum, Bob Huffaker, who was broadcasting at the time of the Oswald shooting, recalled that Lt. Swain had "threatened to knock anyone down who came anywhere near [after the shooting]. I remember looking up, and I think it might've been Dick [Swain], now that I think back, who knocked me off my feet immediately after the shot.... You didn't hear me hit or anything like that, but I was being pummeled and eventually people were...stepping on my mic cord and I was following the mic down and trying to get back up again." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator