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

Wilma Irene Bond

Artist, American, 1921 - 1980

Wilma Irene Bond

Attributed to

This image contains two black-and-white images, one above the other, with a portion of text underneath them. The images show multiple individuals reacting with urgency. In the top photograph, people are scattered across a grassy area near a road with parked motorcycles. One person appears to be pointing or looking in a specific direction. Trees and a sign are visible in the background, with arrows marking points of interest. In the second photograph, more people are seen, some moving up a slope towards a grassy knoll. A car is now parked where the motorcycles were. People appear to be moving towards the car.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.3 × 19.2 cm (8 × 7 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.4 × 20.6 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.208.7

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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

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