/internal/media/dispatcher/72410/fullElmer Boyd Oral History02/22/200789 MinutesHi-8 videotapeOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2007.001.00100Videotaped oral history interview with Elmer Boyd. A Dallas homicide detective in 1963, Boyd was heavily involved in the assassination investigation and served as one of Oswald's primary handlers on Friday and Saturday while he was in custody at the Dallas police department. Boyd was at the Trade Mart, Parkland Memorial Hospital, the Texas School Book Depository and Dallas police headquarters over the weekend. He was with Oswald during his first interrogations, police lineups, paraffin tests and a midnight press showing. Ironically, Boyd previously worked a security detail for Kennedy when the president briefly visited Dallas in 1961.Oral Histories6389026261Oral historyVideotaped oral history interview with Elmer Boyd. A Dallas homicide detective in 1963, Boyd was heavily involved in the assassination investigation and served as one of Oswald's primary handlers on Friday and Saturday while he was in custody at the Dallas police department. Boyd was at the Trade Mart, Parkland Memorial Hospital, the Texas School Book Depository and Dallas police headquarters over the weekend. He was with Oswald during his first interrogations, police lineups, paraffin tests and a midnight press showing. Ironically, Boyd previously worked a security detail for Kennedy when the president briefly visited Dallas in 1961.
Interview conducted at Mr. Boyd's home on February 22, 2007 by Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator. The interview is one hour and twenty-nine minutes long.Trade Mart luncheonMidnight press conferenceDetectivesInvestigationsOral historiesOswald, Lee HarveyBoyd, ElmerParkland HospitalTexas School Book DepositoryDallasLaw Enforcement (OHC)Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)Dallas Trade Mart (OHC)Parkland Memorial Hospital (OHC)Elmer Boyd passed away on May 24, 2024. - Riley Harris, Collections CatalogerElmer Boyd and his partner Richard Sims are both seen in numerous photographs and in news footage from the weekend of the Kennedy assassination. For example, Boyd can be seen standing next to Lee Harvey Oswald in Bill Winfrey's widely-distributed Dallas Morning News photograph of the suspect raising his fists in the air. Boyd and Sims can also both be seen alongside Oswald at the midnight press showing of the suspect held in the basement assembly room at police headquarters. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator