Title from caption on object: "Mother of Assassin Views Picture"

November 1964

American 20th Century

Associated Names
American 20th Century

Artist

Associated Press

Publisher

The image shows an older woman seated. She is turned slightly to her left, looking past the camera. She has a round face, fair skin, and wears cat-eye glasses. Her hair is styled back. She is wearing a mid-tone coat with a notched collar and a brooch. She holds a magazine or document in her right hand and wears a large beaded bracelet on her left wrist. The background consists of a paneled wall within an interior space.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.1 × 17.3 cm (9 1/2 × 6 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.4 × 20.6 cm (10 × 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.208.13

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

across bottom printed in image: (DN4) FORT WORTH, TEX., NOV 21—MOTHER OF ASSASSIN VIEWS PICTURE—Mrs. / Marguerite Oswald [circled in red crayon], mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of President / John F. Kennedy, views picture at her home in Fort Worth, Tex., which / became available yesterday, of the Presidential car racing to Parkland / Hospital in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963, after President Kennedy and Gov. John / Connally of Texas were hit by rifle bullets as they passed the Texas / School Depository Building. Oswald was slain two days later by Jack Ruby, / a Dallas night club operator. (AP Wirephoto) (ce171502stf-dt) 1964; on verso, by unknown hand, top right in graphite: -450

Wikidata ID

Q64144783

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