A Glimpse into the Dallas Police Museum Collection
Just inside the front entrance is a 1928 Model A Ford police car that was restored by a former officer.
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PHOTO: Wayne Parham
The museum collection includes a large number of badges and hatpins worn by officers throughout the years.
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PHOTO: Wayne Parham
Among a collection of handcuffs, handguns, and holsters, is a framed Jack Ruby business card.
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PHOTO: Wayne Parham
Arrest photos of Lee Harvey Oswald are framed along with related documents.
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PHOTO: Wayne Parham
The collection includes early body armor worn by an officer in the late 1800s or early 1900s.
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Senior Cpl. Paul Schuster shows the only Thompson submachine gun ever owned by the Dallas Police Department.
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A suspended Bell helicopter near the entrance honors three officers killed in crashes.
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Although the original documents are kept in the city archives, the museum does maintain copies of documentation surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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Upstairs on the second floor of the museum area is one corner which memorializes the five officers killed during the July 7, 2016, ambush of officers following a protest.
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On display on the second floor is the door of a patrol car that was struck by gunfire during the 2015 attack on police headquarters by a man in an armored van.
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One framed photo shows an officer holding the revolver taken from Lee Harvey Oswald when he was arrested.
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A sculpture of Officer J.D. Tippit memorializes his sacrifice after he was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald following the Kennedy assassination.
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Senior Cpl. Paul Schuster displays the suit that was worn by one of the detectives while escorting Lee Harvey Oswald when he was shot and killed at the old police department headquarters.
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Police still have one of the front windows, with bullet holes intact, from the 2015 attack on police headquarters.
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The door of the homicide investigations office where detectives interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald was removed, door frame and all, from the former police headquarters building.
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PHOTO: Wayne Parham