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)

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Collections

Lee Harvey Oswald
Cold War, Communism and Cuban Missile Crisis
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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 Commentary

This 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