/internal/media/dispatcher/26276/fullImage of Dallas Police officer M. N. "Nick" McDonald at Dallas Police Department11/22/1963Negative: 2 5/8 × 2 3/8 in. (6.6 × 6.1 cm)
Frame: 2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in. (5.6 × 5.5 cm)FilmTom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1994.003.00270Black and white 120 film negative showing an image of Dallas Police Officer M. N. "Nick" McDonald at Dallas Police Headquarters on November 22, 1963. The image was taken by a photographer from The Dallas Morning News.
In the image, Dallas Police Officer M. N. "Nick" McDonald is talking to three men who. McDonald is on the right side of the image, the men are on the left. The man in the middle (also seen in images numbered 1994.003.0026.0001 and .0002 and 1994.003.0028) is writing on a notepad and there is a cigarette in his mouth. He is wearing a suit and glasses. The man on his left side is wearing a dark suit; the man on his right is wearing a light suit. Both of the men on the sides appear to be looking at the notepad the man in the middle is writing on.
McDonald has his hands on his hips and he is wearing his police uniform including the hat. There is a long scratch on the side of his face that is toward the camera (the left cheek).
The photograph appears to have been taken in a hallway, probably at Dallas Police Headquarters, according to a previous cataloguer.
Across the top of the negative strip, "Kodak Safety Film" is printed once; this text appears upside down and backwards in relation to the image and other text on the strip. An "A" is printed in the lower margin.
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, Tom Dillard and Bill Winfrey are the photographers who were present when the photograph was taken.Photographs655455.50000000006.10000000005.60000000006.600000000022730Negative (b&w)0E-100E-10Original 120 format black and white negative on Kodak Safety Film by a Dallas Morning News photographer. The image shows uniformed Dallas Police officer M. N. "Nick" McDonald, who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, at Dallas police headquarters on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. McDonald is speaking to Dallas Morning News reporter Jim Ewell while two other men listen in.PhotographsPoliceBeers, JackDillard, Tom C.Winfrey, BillMcDonald, M. N. "Nick"The Dallas Morning NewsDallas Police DepartmentDallas Police HeadquartersDallas Municipal BuildingDallasIt is not clear which Dallas Morning News photographer took this image. Jack Beers, Tom Dillard and Bill Winfrey are the photographers who were present when the photograph was taken. It could have been any of them. - Stephanie Allen-Givens, Collections and Exhibits ManagerDallas police officer M. "Nick" McDonald is speaking here with Jim Ewell (with cigarette and notepad), a police reporter at The Dallas Morning News. Ewell had been at Dallas Love Field that morning. Following the assassination, he was in Dealey Plaza, at the Tippit shooting scene and inside the Texas Theatre during Oswald's arrest. The scratch clearly visible on Officer McDonald's face occurred during the arrest of Oswald. McDonald was the first to confront Oswald inside the theater, and he later recalled that Oswald punched him in the face before aiming a gun at McDonald. Several officers quickly came to McDonald's aid, and a scuffle took place. As McDonald described in his 2003 oral history, after Oswald was subdued and handcuffed, McDonald noticed that he "was bloody all over." He recalled: "My lip was bloody. My nose was bloody. And this gash here--well, that gash was caused when I jerked the pistol away from him. The hammer scratched me about four inches down the face." Close-up photographs, often reprinted in assassination literature, showing McDonald's face were taken that afternoon at Dallas police headquarters to provide "photographic evidence that [Oswald] resisted arrest." Police officials were rightfully concerned since Oswald had immediately started shouting "police brutality" while being led out of the Texas Theatre, and he frequently bemoaned his treatment before the news media that weekend. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator