File:Exhibit showing a duplicate copy of the Carcano rifle, used by Lee Harvey Oswald.jpg

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English: Title: Exhibit showing a duplicate copy of the 6.5 x 52 mm Italian Carcano M91/38 bolt-action rifle, equipped with a 4x Hollywood brand scope, used by Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumptive assassin of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas

Physical description: 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

Notes: The rifle is displayed in sixth-floor storeroom of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas, Texas, where Oswald was perched above Dealey Plaza, when Kennedy, Texas governor John Connally, and their wives rode in an open touring car on Nov. 22, 1963. Now called the Sixth Floor Museum, the site is operated by the Dallas County Historical Foundation. The original rifle and a pistol that Oswald carried that day are now kept out of public view within the National Archives and Records Administration Building in College Park, Maryland.; Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.; Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).; Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.; Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date Taken on 11 May 2014, 09:58 (according to Exif data)
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Carol M. Highsmith  (1946–)  wikidata:Q5044454
 
Carol M. Highsmith
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Birth name: Carol Louise McKinney

Artist name: Carol M. Highsmith
Carol McKinney Highsmith
Description American photographer and architectural photographer
Date of birth 18 May 1946 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Leaksville, North Carolina
Work period 1981-
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