Rare and unique table from the lunch room of the Texas School Book Depository, featuring a 29˝ central metal pedestal with a 24.5˝ by 40˝ formica top, featuring a white-and-gray crosshatched design on the surface and metal band around the edge, accented with a central red stripe. Includes a vintage glossy 10 x 8 silver gelatin photograph of the Texas School Book Depository's cafeteria, as taken by the Dallas Police Department in the course of their investigation on November 22, 1963: several of these tables are seen against the wall, set up in a booth-and-chair format. The Texas School Book Depository's lunch room/cafeteria was on the second floor, outfitted with a Coca-Cola vending machine and a refrigerator. In very good to fine condition, with general overall wear, including some rust to the base; the table is currently in two pieces, and is missing the screws for reassembly.
Originates from the collection of Kennedy assassination researcher Larry Howard, former president of the JFK Assassination Information Center in Dallas, where this was once exhibited. Accompanied by a letter of provenance from his daughter, in part: "My Dad, Larry Howard, was a Kennedy Assassination researcher in Dallas, Texas and he eventually acquired enough materials from his relationships with various people involved in some way to the assassination of President Kennedy that he was able to open the John F. Kennedy Assassination Information Center inside the West End Marketplace in downtown Dallas. It was established in 1988 and was in business until my Dad’s death in 1994. Upon its closing all of the materials that were a part of the museum exhibit were boxed and stored at my Mother’s home. My Dad was well known in the circle of researchers of the time and was hired by Oliver Stone during the making of JFK as a consultant."
