/internal/media/dispatcher/15879/fullImage of a camera misfire11/23/196315/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)FilmDallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1989.100.0037.00100Original 35mm black and white negative taken by an unidentified Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows Lee Harvey Oswald during the midnight press showing at the Dallas Police Department headquarters.
The negative is on Kodak Tri-X Pan Film. This image is labeled #14 on section 2 of negative strip 37.Photographs636153.60000000002.40000000003985Negative (b&w)Original 35mm black and white negative taken by a Dallas Times Herald staff photographer, possibly Darryl Heikes. This image is a camera misfire which shows the upper part of the room in which the Dallas Police department's midnight press showing of suspect Lee Harvey Oswald was taking place. The upper part of the room, a light fixture and several people's hats and heads are visible in the image, which is dark.
Photographers would sometimes snap a photo of nothing in particular just to make sure that the film was advancing through the camera properly. It is not known whether this misfire was deliberate or accidental.
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