Nat Pinkston Oral History
Object number1994.007.0017
Date08/05/1994
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Nat A. Pinkston
Oral history interviewer
Bob Porter
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumHi-8 videotape
Dimensions2 3/4 × 4 × 3/4 in. (7 × 10.2 × 1.9 cm)
Duration: 59 Minutes
Duration: 59 Minutes
Collections
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Nat Pinkston. An FBI agent in the Dallas office in 1963, Pinkston was part of the local investigation into the assassination. He traced ownership of the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle to Lee Harvey Oswald.
Interview recorded at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 5, 1994 by Bob Porter. The interview is fifty-nine minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryNat Pinkston (1915-2011) was a Dallas attorney prior to joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He retired from the FBI in 1967 after twenty-eight years of service. His personal collection of assassination-related FBI photographs, donated to the Museum in 2003, may be found in the online collections database: Nat Pinkston Collection – Collections – eMuseum (jfk.org). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator