/internal/media/dispatcher/24736/fullPhoto of the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle at Dallas Police Headquarters11/22/196310 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)Paper, PhotoTom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1994.003.01540Black and white photograph showing the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle at Dallas Police Headquarters.
The rifle is lying on a paper backdrop, showing its side. Above the rifle is a square, white sign with black letters that is mostly illegible due to overexposure; the date "11-22-63" can be made out.
The Mannlicher-Carcano is resting on its scope and the underside of the rifle is facing upward. The side of the rifle is facing the photographer. Its strap hangs down partially over the barrel.
The paper that the rifle is posed on is rumpled on the right side of the image; the paper is bent so that it reveals the countertop on which the rifle has been set. In the lower left corner of the image, part of the countertop is also visible.
The photograph has a white border.Photographs6553920.320000000025.400000000022857Photograph (b&w)Black and white photographic print by a Dallas Morning News photographer of a Dallas Police Department evidence photo. The image shows Lee Harvey Oswald's Mannlicher-Carcano rifle set up for photography at Dallas Police Headquarters on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.Mannlicher-CarcanoPoliceRiflesPhotographsFirearmsEvidenceThe Dallas Morning NewsDallas Police DepartmentDallas Police HeadquartersDallas Municipal BuildingDallasIt is not clear which Dallas Morning News photographer took this image. - Stephanie Allen-Givens, Collections and Exhibits ManagerThis photograph showing the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle upside down was likely taken at the same time as other Dallas police evidence photographs in the crime lab on the afternoon/evening of the Kennedy assassination. The Museum's R.W. "Rusty" Livingston Collection has two very similar evidence photos of the rifle, as taken on November 22, 1963: 2002.002.0052-0053. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator