Title from caption on object: "Picture Arouses New Interest"

November 22, 1963

James William Altgens

Artist, American, 1919 - 1995

Associated Press

Publisher

Ike Altgens

Attributed to

The photograph captures a motorcade scene with spectators in the background. The image shows a car in the foreground, adorned with flowers, and the car displays a visible seal on its side. There is a group of people standing behind a barrier in the background. Two figures standing by the cars are looking away from the camera towards an individual amidst the crowd whose face has been circled. The photograph is black and white. On the left side of the image, there is a column of text.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.1 × 23.8 cm (6 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 18.1 × 25.3 cm (7 1/8 × 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.208.6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jo Tartt, Jr., Warrenton, VA; NGA purchase, 2015.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

vertical along left edge printed in image: (EDS: This is an enlargement of a picture originally transmitted in two / different croppings as DN2 and DN5 of Nov. 22.) / (NY49—Dec. 2)—PICTURE AROUSES NEW INTEREST—This photograph made in / Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated has aroused new interest / here and abroad because it seemed to show the accused assassin, Lee / Harvey Oswald (circled) standing at ground level behind the motorcade, at / the entrance to the Texas School Book Depository from which the shots / were fired from an upper story. Authorities said today the man in the / picture is not Oswald, but another employe [sic] of the Depository. (APWIRE- / photo) (s21930) 1963 (See AP wire story, Dallas dateline); on verso, by unknown hand, top right in graphite: 45a; upper center stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: TUE DEC 3-1963; upper center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: Was it... Oswald?... No, They Say / This photo of President Kennedy's assas- / sination aroused new interest in Dallas, / Tex., and abroad because it appeared to / show a man resembling Lee Harvey / Oswald (circled) standing behind the / motorcade at the time of the shoot- / ing. However, authorities said they es- / tablished that the man was not Oswald, / charged as the assassin and later slain, / but Bill Lovelady, another employee of / Texas School Book Depository Building. / -AP Wirephoto

Wikidata ID

Q64144776

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