JFK Investigation Photos Now Online

[DearAbby]

DPD photos taken during investigation now up for public viewing

Photographs taken by Dallas police and used as evidence in the criminal investigation following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are now available for public viewing.

The University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects unit placed the photographs in its Portal to Texas History.

UNT recently received a grant from the Summerlee Foundation to digitize 404 images taken by the Dallas Police Department during the week following Kennedy’s assassination. The Dallas Municipal Archives, a division of the City of Dallas City Secretary’s Office, possesses all of the original investigation files except for those that have been transferred permanently to the federal investigation collection held at the National Archives.

“We are delighted to be working with the Portal to Texas History to make the collections of the Dallas Municipal Archives more accessible, and look forward to a long relationship,” said City of Dallas City Secretary Deborah Watkins.

Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert said, “it’s critical that these important photographs not only be preserved, but be available to all for study and scholarship.”

The black-and-white photographs include the “sniper’s nest” in downtown Dallas’ Texas School Book Depository Building, where Oswald allegedly fired on Kennedy’s motorcade; the back and front yards of the boarding house at 214 Neely where Oswald lived; Dealey Plaza; the intersection at Tenth Street and Patton Avenue where Oswald allegedly fatally shot Dallas patrolman J.D. Tippit; interiors of the Texas Theater, where Oswald was arrested by Dallas police; and the basement of Dallas City Hall, where Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald on Nov. 24, 1963.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/JFK-Investigation-Photos-Now-Online-69782592.html

JFK Site for Photos includes many thumbs >> http://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/JFKDP/browse/

[RagAss]

1. "study and scholarship"... I don't get it . What do these photos prove?

[BeFree]

2. Prove?

It should prove once and for all that Oswald used magic to do what they say he did.

Of course it may not, but then how could he have done what they say he did without magic?

[DearAbby]

3. Those of us who remember the exact moment we were that day

46 yrs ago, and the fact that it took years to get anything released regarding the case. The case is shrouded in mystery. For history sake, for scholarship. Most of all, I would like to know before I leave this earth...WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED THAT DAY.

[KansDem]

8. "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED THAT DAY."

This guy would have probably liked to have known, too...

[cbdo2007]

4. Look at the photos you can see a second shooter!?!?!?!

Not really. Oswald was the only shooter. Science has proven it.

[Frosty1]

6. And what science would that be?

[Champion Jack]

9. Science of the stupid. It's everywhere

[cbdo2007]

11. All the forensic sciences they use for this shit. You've got to be a hard core looney to

think he couldn't have been the only shooter.

Now was he working for the CIA or Castro or whatnot? Who knows, that's the only true question but for anyone actually looking at the bullets/video/etc. evidence it's completely logical that he was the only shooter.

[Frosty1]

17. And what about the guy who confessed to

being the second shooter on the grassy knoll?

Did you see the video where JFK was clearly shot from the front?

[cbdo2007]

26. No, please post a link.

All I've seen is the Zapruder film and he obviously only gets shot twice, both from the back.

[Dan]

19. well for one that was raised around weapons...

Shoot the bolt action of your choice (not that cheap rifle that he used) at a moving target and put three rounds into said target within 4 - 7 seconds. Then come back and talk science.. I remember back in the day that the military tried to repeat the shoot and they couldn't do it...and I suspect they have some serious shooters.

[Cetacea]

30. Sharpshooter here. I couldn't do that either. nt

[CatWoman]

25. huh?

when was this???

[Octafish]

5. Fascinating!

Copy negative of a document written in an unknown language. This document was in the possession of Lee Harvey Oswald and was removed from his home.

http://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/JFKDP/browse/?start=160

Thank you, DearAbby! These are incredible.

[DearAbby]

7. I knew you would be here...the holy grail

:::big toothy grin::


WHAT??! Copy negative of a document written in an unknown language. They would know the languages on the planet...come on...was this a secret code?

[elehhhhna]

10. unknown language? surely the language can be identified...

[DearAbby]

12. Certainly...Code maybe?

You can be sure they had tried or broken the code after all these years.

[cbdo2007]

13. Looks like Spanish to me.

[elehhhhna]

14. i was thinking latin.. can't make it out. well

[DearAbby]

15. Anyway this can be zoomed larger?

I can't hardly see it

[elehhhhna]

16. right side of the page, select size --

or click on the pic a few times.

[DearAbby]

18. thank you

[Catshrink]

20. But where was Poppy?

[elehhhhna]

21. having lunch with the hinkleys? wait, that was a diffferent shooting.

[jimshoes]

22. Bookmarking for later, Thanks for the thread!

:kick:

[darkstar]

23. Whaa?

What's that cut out of someone holding the paper all about? Wasn't that the photo long under contention re: it's authenticity b/c of sunlight and shadows?

http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth49478/m1/1/med_res/


I don't get it...there is so little context and I'm not up on all the details. But they are claiming they found this in Oswald's house, i.e. it pre-existed the assassination as a cut up and mat job? Is it already long known that the famous photo was a fake?




Can someone explain? Are these the original notes we are seeing? Or does it mean that to this day no one knows who that was posing similarly to Oswald in his back yard?

[The Straight Story]

27. I posted on this photo the other day (new info on it)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6949624

[Cetacea]

29. Looks like someone in the CIA liked M.C. Escher. nt

[darkstar]

24. non-conspiratorial kick

Can anyone shed light on what we're seeing above w/ the Oswald backyard photos and mattes?

[JetJaguar]

28. NSFW sort of

There's a photograph in Oswald's possession's of a stripper in Jack Ruby's Carousel Club.

http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth49420/

At least the curtains and the valence are very similar to Ruby's club.

Could be standard issue burlesque stage accouterments in Dallas back then.

Youtube vid added showing inside of club.

Check around 4:40


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDO8ml-H94U&feature=player_embedded#

[Sebastian Doyle]

31. Any footage of Ruby and Oswald together?

Sure would be interesting if there was evidence they knew each other before the assassination.

Ruby is directly linked to the Bush Crime Family by way of one Richard M. Nixon. Who also happened to be in Dallas on 11/22/63, at a Pepsico board meeting.

[Divine Discontent]

32. I had no idea nixon was in town that day, wow...

[Sebastian Doyle]

33. Funny thing about Pepsico in all of this

They were one of the biggest buyers of Cuban sugar under the Batista regime, before Castro nationalized it. And one of the owners of those sugar plantations was Prescott Bush himself. I'm not saying a cola corporation had any direct involvement in the assassination, but it's yet another road that leads back to the Bush Crime Family.