Photograph of the Texas Theatre

This 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, Curator

According to the Texas Theatre program schedule from November 21-27, 1963, the three hour and twenty-five minute entertainment program during the week of the Kennedy assassination began with twenty minutes of advertisements and cartoons with the film, War is Hell, starting at 1:20PM. After a five-minute intermission, a second feature, Cry of Battle, started at 2:46PM. The entire program began again at 4:25PM and once more at 7:50PM with the theater closing shortly after 11:00PM. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested on Friday, November 22, around 1:50PM, approximately thirty minutes after War is Hell started. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator