Title from caption on object: “Two Days after He Was Accused of Assassinating the President...”
November 24, 1963
Artist, American, born 1934

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 16.7 × 20.4 cm (6 9/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
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Accession
2018.177.668
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
retouching across recto in grey paint and orange crayon; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left illegible printing notes in graphite; upper right in graphite perpendicular: 15 cm x 3"; upper right: [illegible] pg / for [illegible] #3 / Lee Harry [sic] Oswald [circled]; upper right stamped in black ink: MAR 15 1964; center left stamped in black ink perpendicular: APR 14 1965; center left printed in black ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: TWO DAYS AFTER he was accused of assassinating the President, Lee / Harvey Oswald himself was slain by Jack Ruby, a Dallas strip-tease club owner. / While millions saw it obscured on television, Bob Jackson, of the Dallas Times- / Herald, captured the moment of history as Ruby pressed the gun against Oswald / and fired, disbelief on the faces of his guards. He, too, was dead within an hour.; center: Dallas Times-Herald Photo / The dramatic picture of Jack Ruby firing point blank at Lee Harvey Oswald; center: Ruby as he rammed his pistol into the belly of Lee Oswald and fired / Another startling picture of the shooting is on Page 5-A; lower left stamped in black ink perpendicular: DEC 29 1963; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite crossed out in orange crayon: [illegible] Page [illegible] / #16 [circled] / 5 1/4 X 4 1/4"; lower right stamped in black ink: MAR 14 1964