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Nat Pinkston Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Nat Pinkston. An FBI agent in the Dallas office in 1963, Pinkston was part of the local investigation into the assassination. He traced ownership of the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle to Lee Harvey Oswald. Interview recorded at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 5, 1994 by Bob Porter. The interview is fifty-nine minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Nat Pinkston Oral History

Date:

08/05/1994

Medium:

Hi-8 videotape

Dimensions:

2 3/4 × 4 × 3/4 in. (7 × 10.2 × 1.9 cm)Duration: 59 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1994.007.0017

Curatorial Note:

Nat Pinkston (1915-2011) was a Dallas attorney prior to joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He retired from the FBI in 1967 after twenty-eight years of service. His personal collection of assassination-related FBI photographs, donated to the Museum in 2003, may be found in the online collections database: Nat Pinkston Collection – Collections – eMuseum (jfk.org). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator

Nat Pinkston Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Nat Pinkston. An FBI agent in the Dallas office in 1963, Pinkston was part of the local investigation into the assassination. He traced ownership of the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle to Lee Harvey Oswald. Interview recorded at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on August 5, 1994 by Bob Porter. The interview is fifty-nine minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Nat Pinkston Oral History

Date:

08/05/1994

Terms:

Oral histories

Interviews

Investigations

Assassination

Mannlicher-Carcano

Rifles

Pinkston, Nat A.

Kennedy, John F.

Oswald, Lee Harvey

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Texas School Book Depository

Dallas

Law Enforcement (OHC)

Medium:

Hi-8 videotape

Dimensions:

2 3/4 × 4 × 3/4 in. (7 × 10.2 × 1.9 cm)Duration: 59 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

1994.007.0017

Curatorial Note:

Nat Pinkston (1915-2011) was a Dallas attorney prior to joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He retired from the FBI in 1967 after twenty-eight years of service. His personal collection of assassination-related FBI photographs, donated to the Museum in 2003, may be found in the online collections database: Nat Pinkston Collection – Collections – eMuseum (jfk.org). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator