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Image of a Dallas Police detective with materials for the paraffin test
Image of a Dallas Police detective with materials for the paraffin test

Image of a Dallas Police detective with materials for the paraffin test

Object number1989.100.0036.0002
Date11/22/1963
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer Dallas Times Herald photographer
ObjectNegative (b&w)
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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DescriptionOriginal 35mm black and white negative taken by an unidentified Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows an unidentified Dallas Police detective with the materials necessary to conduct a paraffin test at the Dallas Police Department on the evening of November 22, 1963. The test would help determine if suspect Lee Harvey Oswald had gunpowder residue on his person. Darryl Heikes and another, unidentified, Dallas Times Herald photographer attended the midnight press showing. It is not known which of the two photographers took this picture.