/internal/media/dispatcher/32933/fullBooking photo of Lee Harvey Oswald taken by the New Orleans Police Department08/09/19633 1/2 × 5 3/4 in. (8.9 × 14.6 cm)PaperJerry Lankford Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2013.102.00010One black and white 1963 booking photo of Lee Harvey Oswald from the New Orleans Police Department. The photo shows Oswald from 3 different points of view. His right profile, front on and a full-length view of him wearing a white shirt and dark pants. In the front-facing picture, Oswald wears a small placard around his neck that says "New Orleans, LA, 112 723, 8 9 63."
The back of the photo is printed in fading purple ink with the following information:
"Lee Harvey Oswald (WM)
#112-723
4907 Magazine Street
Mech. (or possibly 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"Photographs6428814.60502921018.890017780038202Photograph (b&w)0E-10Black 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"New OrleansNew OrleansPhotographsArrestPoliceOswald, Lee HarveyNew Orleans Police DepartmentThis 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