Peerless steel handcuffs, keys and leather holster used by Elmer Boyd

Although Elmer Boyd appears in news footage and a number of photographs from the weekend of the assassination, by far the best and most famous image is the one taken by Dallas Morning News photographer Bill Winfrey as Boyd escorted suspect Lee Harvey Oswald into the third floor hallway of police headquarters after his first interrogation with Captain Will Fritz. Winfrey managed to perfectly frame and capture the very brief moment when Oswald raised his fists in the air, defiantly displaying this pair of handcuffs and - according to some researchers - giving a Communist sign. That image may be found here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/11908. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

Elmer Boyd's 2007 oral history may be viewed in full here: Elmer Boyd Oral History – Search boyd (Objects) – Search – eMuseum (jfk.org). His 2015 public program may be found on the Museum's YouTube channel: Living History with Elmer Boyd - YouTube.

As of the 60th anniversary of the assassination in November 2023, Elmer Boyd is the last surviving Dallas police homicide detective that was involved in the Kennedy assassination investigation. - Stephen Fagin, Curator