Title from caption on object: “Lee Oswald, Evidence Rules Out Conspiracy”
November 23, 1963
American 20th Century
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 21 × 17.7 cm (8 1/4 × 6 15/16 in.)
sheet: 21.5 × 18.8 cm (8 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2018.177.517
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, top left in blue ink: 682 / .15 / 182 / 22 6 x 40 / 4 5/8; top center in blue ink underlined: John F. Kennedy Assassination; top left in red ink: 720; upper left in blue ink: 18 / 180; upper left printed in black ink on applied newspaper crossed out with grease pencil: LEE HARVEY OSWALD, a Soviet admirer who once tried to renounce / his American citizenship, is shown after arrest in killing of President.; by unknown hand, upper left in grease pencil circled and crossed out: B; upper right printed in black ink on applied newspaper: LEE OSWALD / Evidence Rules Out Conspiracy; upper right: After viewing 3,154 exhibits / and studying the testimony of / 552 witnesses -- culled from / some 26,550 interviews by the / FBI and Secret Service -- the / commission had found that / "the shots which killed Presi- / dent Kennedy and wounded / Governor Connally (of Texas) / were fired by Lee Harvey / Oswald."; by unknown hand, center left in grease pencil perpendicular: WARREN REPORT / latest / [illegible] TUES / w-story / Lee Oswald / 29 PICAS [?] x34 [in red ink]; center stamped in blue ink: OREGONIAN / DAILY / PICTURE / [by unknown hand in grease pencil: 4] / EDITION / [by unknown hand in grease pencil: Mon] / OF THE WEEK / [by unknown hand in grease pencil: 11-25] / DATE; center right stamped in blue ink: MAR 27 1967; lower left stamped in black ink: NOV 25 1963