Back in 1995 when Robin was researching police department procedures for the Sammy series, Dallas detectives were kind enough to give her a guided tour of the Police and Courts Building on Main, including the fifth-floor jail where Lee Harvey Oswald was detained after killing President Kennedy in 1963. Since the new Jack Evans Police Headquarters opened in south Dallas in 2003, the old fifth floor has been closed off, so Robin decided to share some of the photos from her personal tour.

Above: the basement ramp of the Police and Courts Building, where Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald.	Above: Det S. D. leads up the stairway to the fifth-floor jail.
Above: Det. D. at the end of the hallway lockup on the fifth floor.	Above: facilities in a fifth-floor cell. The boxes at left contain stored documents from investigations.
Above: view of cell	Above: kitchen in fifth-floor unit. Boxes in back contain stored court documents.
Above: Det. M. R. in jail hallway.	Above: Det. R. opens padded cell.
Left: interior view of cell. Written above cell door are the words: "This is history in ruins. Lee Harvey Oswald stayed in this cell shortly after JFK was killed in Dallas 1963."

© 1995-2009 Robin Hardy

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