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"Original black and white photographic negative taken by Dallas Times Herald staff photographer William Allen Friday afternoon after the assassination. This image shows Dallas Police Sergeant Gerald Hill leaning out of a sixth floor window adjacent…

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In this screenshot from the fourth page of Ray Hawkins' Warren Commission KP folder, Hawkins describes the tussle with Lee Harvey Oswald in his statement to Chief Curry. He specifically states that Hill got the gun before Oswald was even handcuffed -…

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On the 29th page of his Warren Commission KP folder, Gerald Hill describes how he got inside the Texas School Book Depository and ultimately made his way to the "Sniper's Nest." He describes taking a passenger elevator that doesn't go all the way up,…

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Gerald Hill is responding here to a question from David W. Belin during his deposition about where he was assigned during the day of the assassination, before the events transpired. He was apparently not initially assigned to anything pertaining to…

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In this snippet from page 30 of Hill's Warren Commission folder, Hill describes how he came down from the seventh floor, finding no clues, only to discover a stack of boxes by the window on the sixth floor

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These are two photographs of the shirt that Lee Harvey Oswald was wearing when he was apprehended and arrested inside the Texas Theater. The shirt was an exhibit in the Warren Commission (Exhibit # 150) and is held by the National Archives as a…

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This is a photograph of the four live .38 Special cartridges that the Dallas Police Officers found on Lee Harvey Oswald the day of his arrest. The photograph was taken as part of the Warren Commission; the cartridges together as an artifact were…

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This is the entire Warren Commission folder containing Gerald L. Hill's testimony and files pertaining to him, uploaded as one document. It is 104 pages in length - comparably long for a KP folder - and contains a variety of transcriptions and…

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An image of the revolver found on Lee Harvey Oswald when he was arrested at the Texas Theater. The object was used as part of the Warren Commission (Exhibit 143) and was transferred to the National Archives' custody in 1964 . The revolver is a Smith…

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"Black and white photographic print taken by the Dallas police department on November 22, 1963, of the interior of the Texas Theatre where suspect Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested.

R. W. "Rusty" Livingston, an employee of the police crime lab,…

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"Black and white photographic print taken by the Dallas police department on November 22, 1963, of the interior of the Texas Theatre where suspect Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested.

R. W. "Rusty" Livingston, an employee of the police crime lab,…

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"A paper schedule showing movie times for the Texas Theatre for the week of November 21-27, 1963.

The schedule refers to two main features: "Cry Battle" starring Van Heflin and Rita Moreno and "War Is Hell" starring Tony Russell and Judy Day. It…

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This visualization, made in Palladio, maps every single social connection in Gerald Hill's Warren Commission KP file. A very dense web of connections, I attempted to place Hill somewhat in the middle and branch out different levels of connections…

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"Color photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald being taken out of the Texas Theatre in Oak Cliff after he was arrested by members of the Dallas Police Department for the shooting of Officer J.D. Tippit. The picture was taken by photographer Jim MacCammon.…

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This is a short video depicting both Lee Harvey Oswald's entrance into the Dallas Police headquarters and a brief snippet of an interview Gerald Hill gave to the press shortly after the fact.

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This is a screenshot of the title/header of a (very lengthy) article published on a blog dedicated to JFK, MLK, and Malcolm X assassination conspiracies, "Kennedys and King." The article essentially accuses Gerald Hill of framing Oswald for Tippit's…

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This is the first half of an interview between Gerald Hill and a self-described JFK "private researcher," Jeff Meek, from around 1795. The video addresses the issues of where Hill was that day, the course of the Oswald arrest, and, notably, how Hill…

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This is a youtube video of a radio interview of Gerald Hill conducted by Bob Whitten. In this interview, Hill describes the events of the arrest, from the police call notifying the police of JD Tippit's murder to the chase for Oswald prior to finding…

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"Original 120mm black and white negative taken by Dallas Times Herald and United Press International staff photographer Darryl Heikes. This image shows Lee Harvey Oswald escorted by Dallas Police Detective Elmer Boyd leaving the Homicide and Robbery…
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