Title from caption on object: "Fatal Bullet Hits Oswald"

November 24, 1963

Robert H. Jackson

Artist, American, born 1934

Associated Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 16.8 × 19.7 cm (6 5/8 × 7 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.208.16

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, center printed in black ink on applied paper: (DN18) DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 24-- FATAL BULLET HITS OSWALD-- Jack Ruby, / Dallas nightclub owner, fires a bullet from point blank range into / the body of Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President Kennedy, / at the Dallas police station today. Oswald, who died several hours / later, grimaces in agony and begins to collapse. Startled plainclothes-- / man at left is J.R. Leavelle. This picture, one of the year's most / dramatic, was made by staff photographer Bob Jackson of the Dallas / Times-Herald. (Copyright, 1963, The Dallas Times-Herald and Photograph- / er Bob Jackson, via AP Wirephoto) (EDS: This is a re-cropped version of / DN15 of today) (rhs11958t-h) 1963

Wikidata ID

Q64169856

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