Image of letter from the Communist Party to Lee Harvey Oswald

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Image of letter from the Communist Party to Lee Harvey Oswald

Original 4 x 5 black and white negative on Kodak Safety Film by a Dallas Morning News photographer of a Dallas Police Department evidence photo. Image shows a letter from Arnold Johnson of the Communist Party to Lee Harvey Oswald. The original letter was in Dallas Police Department custody as evidence.

Object Details
Object title:

Image of letter from the Communist Party to Lee Harvey Oswald

Date:

11/22/1963 - 11/25/1963

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

3 7/8 × 4 7/8 in. (9.9 × 12.4 cm)

Credit line:

Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1994.003.0020

Curatorial Note:

It is not clear which Dallas Morning News photographer took this image on the weekend of the Kennedy assassination. A number of photographers were present at various points including Tom Dillard, Joe Laird, Clint Grant, Bill Winfrey, and Jack Beers. - Stephanie Allen-Givens, Collections and Exhibits Manager

This typed letter from Arnold Johnson, Director of the Information and Lecture Bureau of Communist Party USA, to Lee Harvey Oswald, dated July 31, 1963, appears in slightly altered form as Arnold Johnson Exhibit No. 2 in Warren Commission Volume 20, page 260. As printed in that volume, the Communist Party USA letterhead with mailing address is covered up and replaced with blank space and a rough handwritten note by Warren Commission general counsel J. Lee Rankin. His notation reads: "Exhibit No. 2 on Examination of Arnold Johnson, 4/17/64 at New York, NY" and initialed JLR. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator

Image of letter from the Communist Party to Lee Harvey Oswald

Original 4 x 5 black and white negative on Kodak Safety Film by a Dallas Morning News photographer of a Dallas Police Department evidence photo. Image shows a letter from Arnold Johnson of the Communist Party to Lee Harvey Oswald. The original letter was in Dallas Police Department custody as evidence.

Object Details
Object title:

Image of letter from the Communist Party to Lee Harvey Oswald

Date:

11/22/1963 - 11/25/1963

Terms:

New Orleans

Evidence

Cuba

Communism

Nazis

Photographs

Oswald, Lee Harvey

Johnson, Arnold

Dallas Police Department

The Dallas Morning News

Fair Play for Cuba Committee

Kodak

American Nazi Party

Communist Party

Dallas

New York

Medium:

Film

Dimensions:

3 7/8 × 4 7/8 in. (9.9 × 12.4 cm)

Credit line:

Tom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1994.003.0020

Curatorial Note:

It is not clear which Dallas Morning News photographer took this image on the weekend of the Kennedy assassination. A number of photographers were present at various points including Tom Dillard, Joe Laird, Clint Grant, Bill Winfrey, and Jack Beers. - Stephanie Allen-Givens, Collections and Exhibits Manager

This typed letter from Arnold Johnson, Director of the Information and Lecture Bureau of Communist Party USA, to Lee Harvey Oswald, dated July 31, 1963, appears in slightly altered form as Arnold Johnson Exhibit No. 2 in Warren Commission Volume 20, page 260. As printed in that volume, the Communist Party USA letterhead with mailing address is covered up and replaced with blank space and a rough handwritten note by Warren Commission general counsel J. Lee Rankin. His notation reads: "Exhibit No. 2 on Examination of Arnold Johnson, 4/17/64 at New York, NY" and initialed JLR. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator