J.F.K. Assassination/Lee Oswald/Jack Ruby Investigator Archive. In December 1954, Allan Sweatt emulated his older brother Millard (see Bonnie and Clyde lot) by joining the Dallas County Sheriff's Department, but he would earn his own reputation as a legendary Texas lawman. A direct consequence of the J.F.K. assassination - the need to identify and interrogate suspects - fell to Allan Sweatt, who by 1963 had taken his brother Millard's former job as Chief Criminal Deputy of Dallas County, into whose custody Oswald was being transferred when he was shot and killed by local burlesque club owner Jack Ruby.
On November 22, 1963, Allan Sweatt was positioned outside Sheriff's Headquarters, observing the tail end of the President's motorcade, when he heard the first of three gunshots. As the highest ranking lawman in Dealey Plaza, it became Allan Sweatt's responsibility to coordinate the actions of Sheriff Deputies in the immediate wake of the shooting which included arresting an early murder suspect, identifying eyewitnesses, scouring the plaza for ballistics evidence, securing Lee Oswald's alleged shell casings inside the Book Depository, and dispatching officers who would apprehend Oswald at the Texas Theatre.
Possibly the closest personal confidant of Sheriff Bill Decker, it was Allan Sweatt who reported to Secret Service agents that Lee Harvey Oswald was, at the time of Kennedy's assassination, receiving a monthly stipend of two hundred dollars from the F.B.I. - even providing them with Oswald's registration number as an informant.
At the specific request of Sheriff Decker - Allan Sweatt was appointed Jack Ruby's private chaperone during his incarceration at the Dallas County Jail. A nationally respected Polygraph examiner, Allan Sweatt was the department's official witness to Jack Ruby's lie detector exam and is even said to have administered his own 'dry run' polygraph exam to Ruby, the existence of which has never been made public. (Data confirmed by the son of Millard E. Sweatt, an executive within the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.) The purpose of Sweatt's preliminary test was allegedly intended to satisfy Sheriff Decker's own curiosity, but also to settle Ruby's own fear of later "flunking" the lie detector.
Allan Sweatt died in 1975 at the age of 58 and is listed among the "Convenient Deaths" surrounding JFK's murder. At the time of his death, Sweatt was the Chief of Field Operations for the Dallas County Sheriff. Included in this archive are the following:
1 - Commissioner of Law Enforcement official diamond ring. 10k band engraved "Allan Sweatt"
1 - Allan Sweatt's "Assistant Chief Deputy Sheriff" Identification card
2 - Allan Sweatt "Deputy Sheriff" Identification cards, both signed Bill Decker, Sheriff
1 - Allan Sweatt's "Dallas County Sheriff Department Director of Field Operations" gold badge in wallet
1 - Brown leather wallet containing Allan Sweatt's "Provost Marshal Investigator" military ID card
2 - Antique childhood portraits of future Dallas County Chief Criminal Deputy Allan Sweatt
4 - Shapshot photographs of Allan Sweatt during his career with the Dallas County Sheriff
9 - 8x10 (or larger) portraits including several of Allan Sweatt's immediate superior Sheriff Bill Decker, as well as Allan Sweatt with a wounded outlaw, participating (w/ brother Millard) in 1950s Masonic Temple rite, receiving accolades, with members of polygraph association in 1963.
7 - News clippings pertaining to Allan Sweatt's law enforcement exploits, captured jailbreakers, escorting a murderer to the electric chair, etc.
1 - 1961 Polygraph Examiner diploma awarded to Allan Sweatt
1 - 14k Gold wedding band
2 - Masonic Temple membership rings
1- 1960s vintage souvenir miniature White House
14 - Allan Sweatt's assorted jewelry/monogrammed accessories including gold/crystal American flag pin
1- "Reeves Souncraft" record album containing the "Confession of Huron Ted Walters", the notorious outlaw pursued by both Chief Deputy Allan Sweatt and, decades earlier, his older brother Millard.
10 - Dallas County Sheriff internal documents including a 10-pg Sheriff's Department personnel roster typescript (with handwritten corrections) compiled days after the JFK assassination, handwritten notes on a Right-Wing extremist group, and the bombing of a Jewish Temple, a list of prisoners transferred to Department of Corrections, a "Glossary of Homosexual Terms," a guide to "Narcotics Parlance of the Underworld" and a 7 page report titled "Don't Trust The Lie Detector."
Estimated Value $4,000 - 6,000.
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