Lee Harvey Oswald
Artist
Marina Oswald Porter
(American, born in Russia, 1941)
Dateabout 1963
Mediumgelatin silver print
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Howard G. Davis, III A.K.A. David Davis
Object number2014.1225
DescriptionTwo frames printed on one sheet.Label TextThe day after President Kennedy’s assassination, two Dallas police detectives searched Lee Harvey Oswald’s possessions stored in a friend’s garage. They found two photographic negatives by his Russian-born wife on March 31, 1963. They show Oswald in the backyard of the Neely Street house in Dallas where the couple rented an apartment. Posed with a pistol on his hip, he holds a rifle and a legible newspaper. Presented as evidence to the Warren Commission, the pictures were later challenged as forgeries, conspiratorially planted against Oswald.
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