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Image of Bob Huffaker interviewing Lt. Richard E. Swain where Oswald was shot
Image of Bob Huffaker interviewing Lt. Richard E. Swain where Oswald was shot

Image of Bob Huffaker interviewing Lt. Richard E. Swain where Oswald was shot

Object number1994.003.0033.0001
Date11/24/1963
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer Dallas Morning News Photographer
ObjectNegative (b&w)
Credit LineTom 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)
DescriptionOriginal 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 Department in the basement of Dallas police headquarters where Lee Harvey Oswald was shot on November 24, 1963. A KRLD camera is visible and is pointed at Huffaker and Lt. Swain.
Curatorial Commentary
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. - Stephanie Allen-GIvens, Collections and Exhibits Manager
In 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