Booking photo of Lee Harvey Oswald taken by the New Orleans Police Department
Object number2013.102.0001
Date08/09/1963
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer
New Orleans Police Department
ObjectPhotograph (b&w)
Credit LineJerry Lankford Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumPaper
Dimensions3 1/2 × 5 3/4 in. (8.9 × 14.6 cm)
DescriptionBlack and white booking photo of Lee Harvey Oswald from the New Orleans Police Department, taken after his arrest in August 1963. The photo shows three different views of Oswald: his right profile, front on and a full-length view of him wearing a white shirt and dark pants. In the center image, Oswald wears a small placard around his neck that says "New Orleans, LA, 112 723, 8 9 63."
This photo was taken after Oswald was arrested for disturbing the peace while distributing "Hands Off Cuba!" flyers on a public sidewalk.
The back of the photo is printed in fading purple ink with the following information:
"Lee Harvey Oswald (WM)
#112-723
4907 Magazine Street
Mach.
N. O., La.
slender
ruddy
brown
brown
(2 lines with numbers that have become illegible)
130 lbs
5 9
ARR: 1st Dist. 8/9/63
Lt. W. Caillot, etc.
Chg: Dist the Peace by
creating a scene"
Curatorial CommentaryThis booking photograph complements two other items in our collection that document this incident in New Orleans a few months before the assassination. Please see also 2007.028.0001 and 2013.088.0003 for a film and a document related to this same event. - Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections
Lee Harvey Oswald
1962 - 1964
Lovita Irby
April 1991 - May 1991
Dallas Morning News Photographer
11/22/1963 - 11/25/1963
Dallas Morning News Photographer
11/22/1963 - 11/25/1963