Gelatin silver print photograph, 8 x 10 inches comprising two black and white bust images of Lee Harvey Oswald, one facing forward, the other in profile. Taken in Dallas, Texas on November 23, 1963, following his arrest in connection with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and Dallas Police Officer J. D. Tippit the previous afternoon. Printed from a negative found in the papers of photography expert Cecil Wayne Kirk and used in connection with his testimony before the House Select Committee on Assassination investigation in 1978.

     A first generation exhibition-quality print, numbered 13 of 50, in extremely fine condition. A particularly sharp and crisp image of Oswald—so detailed that the iodine used to clean the wounds on his neck and forehead is clearly visible, especially in the profile shot. Oswald's wounds were the result of a struggle with Dallas police officers in the Texas Theatre as they tried to disarm and subdue him. As officers escorted him out of the theater, Oswald shouted that he was a victim of police brutality. Cecil Wayne Kirk (1938-2011) was a police officer, investigator and photography expert who served with the D.C. Metropolitan Police from 1960 to 1980 where he assisted the federal investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In 1978, Kirk testified before the House Select Committee on Assassinations as a photography expert. During the 1978 hearings, Kirk would help prove the veracity of the oft-disputed photographs of Oswald posing in his backyard with the rifle he allegedly used to assassinate John F. Kennedy. In 1980 he transferred to Scottsdale, Arizona to investigate the murder of actor Bob Crane and revamped the city's forensic investigative unit. Kirk utilized the November 1963 mug shots when studying all known images of Oswald to determine the identity of a man in an Associated Press photograph who resembled Oswald standing in the doorway of the Texas School Book Depository moments before Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963. The Warren Commission concluded that the individual was Billy Nolan Lovelady, another employee of the School Book Depository. Over the years, critics disputed that assertion but the 1978 House Select Committee reconsidered the evidence, but came to the same conclusion. This comes with a LOA from Unversity Archives.

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