/internal/media/dispatcher/20200/fullPhotograph of Lee Harvey Oswald's rooming houseNovember 19633 1/2 x 5 in. (8.9 x 12.7 cm)PaperNat Pinkston Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2003.006.00410Black and white photograph of part of the rooming house where Lee Harvey Oswald lived in November 1963. The brick house has a white pergola porch that extends over a driveway with a car parked on it. The car, a Pontiac, is light-colored and has a Texas license plate reading NC 9466." Half of the house is visible, from the carport edge to the front door.
The photograph has scalloped edges and a white border around all sides. The back of the paper has "A Kodak® Paper" repeatedly printed on a diagonal.Photographs6482712.70000000008.890000000021602Photograph (b&w)Black and white photographic print of the rooming house at 1026 North Beckley Street in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald lived in November 1963. The photo was taken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as evidence in the days following the assassination of President Kennedy. The brick house has a white pergola porch and a car is parked in the driveway. The car, a Pontiac, is light-colored and has a Texas license plate reading NC 9466. A grassy lawn is visible in the foreground of the photo. The photograph was taken looking east from the Beckley sidewalk.PhotographsInvestigationsEvidencePinkston, Nat A.Oswald, Lee HarveyFederal 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, CuratorAs of 2022, the rooming house at 1026 North Beckley Street in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas still looks very much as it did during the brief period that Lee Harvey Oswald rented a room at $8 a week, from October 14 to November 22, 1963. The house, built in 1935, is today owned by Patricia Puckett-Hall, the granddaughter of original owner Gladys Johnson, who rented a room to Oswald. Puckett-Hall recorded an oral history with the Museum in 2015. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator