Title from caption on object: "In Partial Support of His Contention That Another Assassin was Firing at Kennedy from the Grassy Knoll..."
November 22, 1963
Artist, American, 1921 - 1980
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 20.3 × 19.2 cm (8 × 7 9/16 in.)
sheet: 25.4 × 20.6 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.208.7
Artwork history & notes
Inscriptions
across bottom printed in image: In partial support of his contention that another assassin was firing at Kennedy from [circled in orange crayon] the / grassy knoll, Josiah Thompson includes in his book, SIX SECONDS IN DALLAS, these two / photographs taken by a spectator. Taken seconds after the shot, they show a police officer / (arrow top) dismounting from his motorcycle and looking toward the stockade fence area and / a foot patrolman running in the same direction. In the lower photograph, motorcycle officer / Hargis (arrow) has climbed the grassy knoll in search of the gunman. Other spectators / scramble up the slope in the same direction. These photographs were published for the first / time in the Bernard Geis Associates book.; by unknown hand, lower center in orange crayon: file; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: two images lending support to / "grassy knoll" shooter. Note people / running in that direction after / hearing shots; top right in graphite: 750; center in blue pencil underlined: John F. Kennedy [circled] / assassination; lower center stamped in purple ink: DEC28 1967
Wikidata ID
Q64144777