Another JFK auction

Cecil Kirk

By Sonja HallerThe Republic | azcentral.comWed Feb 19, 2014 4:17 PM

A Scottsdale auction house on Thursday, March 6, is putting up for bid some original crime-scene photos related to President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

The photos and research come from the estate of former Scottsdale police Officer Cecil Kirk, who worked for more than 20 years as a crime-scene supervisor with the Washington, D.C., Metro Police.

“Cecil was an excellent photographer who was assigned in 1963 to the federal investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas. He later testified in several congressional hearings regarding the JFK case,” said Josh Levine, owner of J. Levine Auction & Appraisal.

Kirk joined the Scottsdale Police Department in 1980 as a crime-scene unit supervisor and retired in 1990 because for health reasons. He died in April 2011.

J. Levine Auction & Appraisal will feature several dozen crime-scene photographs and documents relating to the investigation and research.

The public may preview the auction items starting at 4 p.m. March 6 with the auction to follow at 6. The auction house is at 10345 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale.

The two-story building was remodeled in January to house new installations and departments, including sporting goods, fine art, furnishings, home decor, ethnographic, Southwestern, toys, musical instruments, and coins and currency. A second-floor patio will be completed in the spring.