Title from caption on object: "Mother of Assassin Views Picture", November 1964

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Medium

gelatin silver print

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.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

2015.208.13

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Tartt, Jo