Deputy Weitzman Transfers Oswald's Rifle to Captain J.W. Fritz
Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle was found by Deputies Boone and Weitzman prior to being possessed by Captain Fritz.
The rifle used by Lee Harvey Oswald to shoot President Kennedy from the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository was found by Deputy Constable Seymour Weitzman and then handed over to Captain Fritz.
President (1963-1969: Johnson). President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 11/30/1963-9/24/1964 (Most Recent)
Page 13 of J.W. Fritz folder https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7460508
National Archives
11/30/1963 - 9/24/1964
Ali Beachman
Series: Records Relating to Key Persons, 11/30/1963 - 9/24/1964
Record Group 272: Records of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, 1954 - 1965
Textual record
ARC Identifier: 7460508
Search Identifier: JFK Key Persons Files - Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
Det. Montgomery finds rifle-sized bag in TSBD
Det. L. D. Montgomery brings out a rifle-sized paper bag from the TSBD which he believed Oswald used to transport the rifle.
Detective Leslie Dell Montgomery of the Dallas Police Department transports evidence from the 6th Floor of the Texas School Book Depository to the Dallas Police Department headquarters in City Hall. Evidence transported by Det. Montgomery include the photographed large paper bag found in the south-east corner of the 6th floor.
William Allen of the Dallas Times Herald
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Nov. 22, 1964
Ronni Farid
Online Collection
Photograph: B&W 2.4 x 3.6 cm
Photograph
Object Number: 1989.100.0023.0005
Gerald Hill Leaning out of TSBD Window
Photograph of Gerald L. Hill in the window of the Texas School Book Depository.
"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 to the alleged sniper's perch at the Texas School Book Depository." - Portal to Texas History
William Allen
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184839/
The Portal to Texas History
November 22, 1963
Katelyn Belz
This photograph has been made publicly available for use in research, teaching, and private study by The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in partnership with The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries.
You are free to link to any publicly accessible URL associated with this photograph.
Photograph, black and white
Photograph
1989.100.0028.0013 : Portal to Texas History
Marguerite Oswald in front of the TSBD
Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, poses for a photo in from the TSBD in 1964.
Photograph of Marguerite Oswald in front of the Texas School Book Depository in March 1964. Mrs. Oswald is wearing all black and stands in the Grassy Knoll. Photographer Bill Winfrey took the photo after talking to Mrs. Oswald during the Jack Ruby trial.
Bill Winfrey
The Bill Winfrey Collection of the The Dallas Morning News
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza http://emuseum.jfk.org/view/objects/asitem/search@/0?t:state:flow=7c3538ee-34af-41ab-9e5b-bf9fac1f3f60
1964
Ronni Farid
The Bill Winfrey Collection
Photograph: B&W 5.7 x 5.7 cm
Photograph
Object Number: 2004.058.0323.0002
Screenshot from page 30 of Gerald Hill's Warren Commission folder
Gerald Hill being deposed, talking about the Texas School Book Depository
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
Warren Commission
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/7460570
National Archives
04/08/1964
Katelyn Belz
Unrestricted
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National Archives: 7460570, p. 30