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Image of Marguerite Oswald at the Dallas Police Department headquarters
Image of Marguerite Oswald at the Dallas Police Department headquarters

Image of Marguerite Oswald at the Dallas Police Department headquarters

Object number1989.100.0043.0014
Date11/23/1963
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)
Collections
DescriptionOriginal 35mm black and white negative taken by an unidentified Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. This image shows Marguerite Oswald, mother of suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, at the Dallas Police Department headquarters on November 23, 1963.
Curatorial Commentary
Most of the images on this strip appear overly bright because they were overexposed; this particular image, though, seems to have the opposite problem.  It appears to have been underexposed, producing a dark image because not enough light was allowed in to make the picture.  When Museum staff scanned this negative strip in 2012, they used photo editing software to try to correct the over- or under-exposure, allowing us to see some detail in the images that was not visible before.  - Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections