Photo Gallery

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A picture may or may not be worth a thousand words, but sometimes a picture can capture the character and personality of an individual, or the spirit and essence of a situation better than even the most talented writer. Hopefully, some of the following photographs achieve that.

• Writers and Investigators
  • Members of the Warren Commission present their report to President Lyndon Banes Johnson, September 24, 1964
  • Dr. Cyril Wecht, forensic pathologist and conspiracy theorist, addresses a conspiracy convention in Pittsburgh in 2003.
  • Dr. Luis Alvarez, inventor of "jiggle analysis" and discoverer of "jet effect."
  • Nigel Turner -- Producer of TV documentary "The Men Who Killed Kennedy"
  • Judge Burt Griffin, who in 1964 was the Warren Commission counsel investigating Jack Ruby. Photo is circa 1999.
  • Arlen Specter -- author of the Single Bullet Theory
  • Long-time conspiracy theorist and researcher Vincent Salandria of Philadelphia, in his home in 2014.
  • Jack Brazil -- "Sewer" theorist
  • Prof. James Fetzer, editor of books Assassination Science and Murder in Dealey Plaza supporting the theory of Zapruder film alteration
  • The late Mary Ferrell, Dallas researcher obscure to the general public, but legendary among assassination researchers. Photo © Fort Worth Star-Telegram, used by permission.
  • Andy Winiarczyk, proprietor of The Last Hurrah Bookshop
  • Jefferson Morley, runs JFKFacts blog and has written a biography of Win Scott, CIA station chief in Mexico City.
  • The late Gary Mack, curator of the Sixth Floor Museum in Dealey Plaza.
  • Journalist Hugh Aynesworth who reported both the JFK assassination in Dallas and the Garrison investigation in New Orleans.
  • Harrison Livingstone -- conspiracy author
  • Mark Lane (Warren Commission critic) with Jane Fonda, on plane, in 1970.
  • Gerald Posner (author of Case Closed)
  • Judge John R. Tunheim, Chair of the Assassination Records Review Board
  • FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, in a circa 1953 photo.
  • Author Gus Russo in his Catonsville, Maryland home. Russo has written the JFK assassination books Live By the Sword and Brothers in Arms.
  • Norman Mailer, author of Oswald's Tale, in C-SPAN appearance.
  • Steve Rivele, proponent of the theory that three Corsican assassins killed Kennedy.
  • Henry Wade, Dallas District Attorney who would have prosecuted Oswald (Wade is also the "Wade" in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.)
  • Henry Wade talks to the press in a late evening news conference on the day of the assassination
  • Jim Garrison, who conducted a sham "investigation" in New Orleans between 1966 and 1969.
  • Detective Jim Leavelle, the officer who was handcuffed to Oswald when Oswald was shot by Ruby.
  • Detective Leavelle, photographed at the old Dallas Police Headquarters in 2011.
  • Howard Donahue, a weapons expert who believes that Kennedy was killed when a Secret Service agent accidentially loosed off a shot.
  • Pioneer conspiracy researcher Josiah Thompson, speaking on the 2002 COPA conference.
  • Disbarred lawyer Barr McClellan, author of the rather dubious volume Blood, Money & Power which blames Lyndon Johnson for killing Kennedy.
  • Dave Perry, researcher who believes there was a conspiracy, but has been instrumental in debunking the wilder conspiracy scams, tall tales and unreliable witnesses.

• Witnesses, Suspects, and Other Folks
  • Richard Case Nagell, a man who claimed "foreknowledge" of a JFK assassination plot.
  • Richard Case Nagell in 1962
  • Roger Craig
  • Three Tramps on Houston Street
  • The Babushka Lady (frame from Muchmore Film)
  • Jack Ruby, in early 1950s, as owner of the Ranch House nightclub.
  • Jack Ruby and his sister Eva Grant
  • Oswald's Passport photo
  • Oswald at Friday Evening News Conference
  • Oswald, with Detective M.G. Hall (left) is brought from his 5th floor jail cell to the third floor Homicide and Robbery Bureau on Saturday morning
  • Mary Moorman, Dealey Plaza witness in the office of the Dallas Country Sheriff on the afternoon of the assassination
  • William Whaley, the cab driver who drove Oswald from the downtown Greyhound station to Oak Cliff
  • Fr. Oscar Huber, who administered the last rites of the Catholic Church to John Kennedy in the Parkland emergency room
  • Dr. Robert McClelland, holding the blood-stained shirt he wore in the Parkland Hospital Emergency Room when he and other doctors tried to save John Kennedy
  • Clay Shaw -- the man prosecuted by Jim Garrison in New Orleans
  • Lee Oswald's housekeeper (Earlene Roberts) and landlady (Gladys Johnson)
  • White House photographers Cecil Stoughton (right), and Robert Knudsen aboard the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., September 22, 1962
  • White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, aboard the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., September 22, 1962
  • Jack Ruby with defense attorney Melvin M. Belli, talking with reporters at pre-trial hearing
  • Judge Joe B. Brown & Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, during Jack Ruby's murder trial, March 1964
  • The women in Lee Oswald's life -- mother Marguerite, wife Marina, two daughters and Mrs. Ruth Paine -- in the Paine kitchen on the morning after the assassination
  • Marina Oswald, on the afternoon of the assassination, dresses daughter June for trip to Dallas Police Headquarters
  • Marina Oswald, photographed for Life magazine in 1973
  • Fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald being removed from ambulance at Parkland Hospital after being shot by Jack Ruby
  • Judyth Vary Baker, who tells a fanciful story of being Lee Oswald’s lover in New Orleans in the Summer of 1963, with Jeffrey Holmes of “Strange But True” tours.

• Scenes
  • Media madhouse on the third floor of Dallas Police headquarters
  • Crowd of schoolchildren on motorcade route in Fort Worth await President and First Lady
  • Malcolm Kilduff, Assistant White House Press Secretary at news conference at Parkland Hospital, approximately 1:35 p.m. Central time, November 22, 1963
  • John Kennedy's coffin put aboard Air Force One at Love Field
  • Jackie Kennedy greets woman in wheelchair at Love Field upon arrival in Dallas
  • Lee Oswald's room in Oak Cliff, photographed on the afternoon of the assassination

• The Politicians
  • Press conference on Laos crisis
  • Kennedy's Berlin speech
  • Lyndon Johnson addressess U.S. Congress
  • Kennedy speaking in Fort Worth the morning of the assassination.
  • Lyndon Johnson and Lady Bird at Fort Worth breakfast on morning of the assassination
  • JFK and Jackie at Love Field
  • Gentlemanly John Connally reaches to remove his hat as Jackie enters limo at Love Field
  • John Connally, in Miami, Florida, USA March 8, 1980
  • John Connally, in Dallas, Texas, ca. 1976
  • Dave Powers, Presidential Aide, in motorcade car before leaving Love Field
  • Lyndon Johnson being sworn in as president aboard Air Force One by Judge Sarah Hughes.
  • John and Nellie Connally in Parade During Texas Sesquicentennial

• The Kennedy Family
  • Jackie Kennedy with John Kennedy, Jr., in White House nursery, August 1962.
  • John Kennedy with John Kennedy, Jr.
  • Jackie Kennedy at Fort Worth breakfast speech, November 22, 1963

• Dealey Plaza
  • Aftermath of the assassination in Dealey Plaza photographed from the press bus
  • Aftermath of the assassination in Dealey Plaza -- Bill and Gayle Newman on ground protecting children
  • Mannlicher-Carcano rifle (like Oswald's) disassembled
  • Plaque showing Dealey Plaza to be National Landmark
  • Texas School Book Depository -- viewed from Houston Street sidewalk
  • Moorman Polaroid Photo of the Assassination
  • Stockade Fence (view from Zapruder's position)

• The Motorcade
  • Color photo of Presidental limo, before turning onto Main Street.
  • Rare photo of Kennedy in motorcade, supplied by Scott K. Hale.
  • Altgens photo of motorcade on Houston Street.
  • Altgens photo of motorcade on Elm Street; John Kennedy has already been hit.
  • Photo by Clint Grant identified as "President John F. Kennedy's automobile." In reality, it's the vice presidential limousine.
  • Mrs. Earle Cabell, wife of Dallas' mayor, waits outside Parkland Hospital in the limo in which she rode in the motorcade.
  • Amateur snapshot, made with Kodak Brownie camera, of Kennedys and Connallys in the motorcade about two minutes before the shooting in Dealey Plaza.
  • A photo of the Presidential limo in front of the Adolphus Hotel also about two minutes before the shooting in Dealey Plaza.

• The Grieving
  • Jacqueline Kennedy enters the ambulance which will carry her husband's body from Parkland Hospital to Love Field
  • Family of Officer J.D. Tippit, who was shot by Oswald in the wake of the assassination
  • Mrs. Marie Tippit, widow of Officer J.D. Tippit at her husband's funeral
  • Kennedy's coffin lies in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington on November 24th, 1963.
  • Jackie kneels at Jack's grave at Arlington National Cemetery.
  • John Kennedy, Jr. places a "PT-109" tie clasp on the grave of his father, as his mother and sister watch, on May 29, 1964.
  • Lee Oswald's funeral -- family in background
  • Jackie Kennedy climbs stairs into Air Force One shortly after her husband's coffin was loaded on board the plane

• Graves, courtesy of "Find a Grave" website:
  • Jack Ruby's grave
  • Lee Harvey Oswald grave
  • Jackie Kennedy Onasis grave
  • John Kennedy's grave
  • John Connally grave
  • J. Edgar Hoover grave
  • Allen Dulles' grave
  • Earl Warren's grave

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