Title from caption on object: "What the Assassin Might Have Seen"

c. 1967

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 25.3 × 18.3 cm (9 15/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.6 × 20.2 cm (10 1/16 × 7 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.208.11

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

retouching across recto in white paint; top left stamped in green ink: FRIDAY MAKEUP; across bottom printed in image: (ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY AMS. JUNE 25—WITH WARREN REPORT STORY) / (NY55-June 13) WHAT THE ASSASSIN MIGHT HAVE SEEN—This is the approximate / view the assassin of President Kennedy might have seen as he trained his / weapon on the president in November, 1963. This scene was reconstructed / and the picture was made with a long lens duplicating the scene as it / appeared in the telescopic sight of the rifle. (APWirephoto) (b32050fls) 67; on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in blue ink underlined: John F. Kennedy [circled in blue ink] / Assassinated [underlined in red ink]; center stamped in green ink: SUNDAY DIGNITY / FRIDAY MAKEUP; center stamped in black ink: SUN-TIMES / JUN 25 1967

Wikidata ID

Q64144781

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