/internal/media/dispatcher/20124/fullPhoto of stairs near the rifle location in the Texas School Book DepositoryNovember 19635 x 4 in. (12.7 x 10.2 cm)PaperNat Pinkston Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2003.006.00120Black and white photograph of a stairwell between the second and third floors of the Texas School Book Depository. The photograph shows the stairs leading down to a landing with light-colored brick walls at the left and center of the photo and a handrail on the right side.
There are two sets of staple holes at the top of the photograph. The back of the paper has "A Kodak® Paper" repeatedly printed on a diagonal.
Photographs6481610.160000000012.700000000021573Photograph (b&w)Black and white photographic print of a stairwell near the rifle location between the sixth and fifth floors of the Texas School Book Depository building. The photo was taken in November 1963 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as evidence in the days following the assassination of President Kennedy. The photograph shows the stairs leading down from the sixth floor to a landing with light-colored brick walls at the left and center of the photo and a handrail on the right side.StaircasesPhotographsInvestigationsEvidencePinkston, Nat A.Texas School Book DepositoryFederal Bureau of InvestigationDallasThis FBI photographic print was in the personal collection of retired agent Nat A. Pinkston (1915-2011). Pinkston was a Dallas attorney prior to joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 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. -- Stephen Fagin, CuratorToday, all that remains of the northwest stairwell inside the Texas School Book Depository is the small portion visible in this 1963 FBI photograph. After Dallas County purchased and began renovating the warehouse in the late 1970s, the original stairwell was removed to make way for a variety of government offices on floors two through five. This small section of the stairwell was kept in place to maintain the historical integrity of the sixth floor. The "Rifle Location" is one of two protected evidentiary areas on the sixth floor that have been reconstructed to appear as they were in November 1963, based on crime scene photographs like this one, taken either by the FBI or the Dallas Police Department. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator