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Image from contact sheet of Lieutenant J.C. "Carl" Day with rifle
Image from contact sheet of Lieutenant J.C. "Carl" Day with rifle

Image from contact sheet of Lieutenant J.C. "Carl" Day with rifle

Object number1989.100.0062.0003
Date11/22/1963
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer William Allen
ObjectContact sheet
Credit LineDallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumFilm
Dimensions15/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)
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DescriptionOne black and white positive print of a 35mm negative taken by Dallas Times Herald photographer William Allen, taken from a contact sheet. This image shows Dallas Police Lieutenant J.C. "Carl" Day leaving the Texas School Book Depository, walking across Houston Street toward the Dal-Tex Building, carrying the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle that was found on the sixth floor of the Book Depository on November 22, 1963. Day was head of the Dallas Police Crime Scene Search Unit. A red editor's mark is visible in the top right corner of the image and a smaller red mark can be seen just below the center of the image, near the stock of the rifle.