Rare artifacts from the JFK assassination are going on display in Washington, including the home video camera used by dressmaker Abraham Zapruder, who unwittingly recorded the assassination.
Infamous Zapruder Camera, which filmed the assassination
More than 100 rarely seen objects will be on display, including the 8 mm movie camera used by Abraham Zapruder, who was the only eyewitness to capture the entire assassination on film.
Close up of Zapruder Camera
The Newseum, a museum devoted to journalism and the First Amendment, is marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination with a yearlong commemoration including two new exhibitions and a new film about Kennedy.
Lee Harvey Oswald smirks in his Dallas Mug Shot
For the first time, the museum is showing items from assassin Lee Harvey Oswald at the time of his arrest. The display includes Oswald’s clothing, a jacket that police believe he discarded, his wallet and a blanket used to hide his rifle in Mrs. Paine’s garage. The objects are on loan from the National Archives.
Jacket discarded by Lee Harvey Oswald after the JFK assassination, before he murdered a police officer. Found by a gas station.
Oswald’s jacket
Shirt Oswald wore when arrested.
Lee Harvey Oswald kept his rifle wrapped in this wool blanket in Mrs. Paine’s garage, at the home where Oswald’s wife lived.
Items recovered from Lee Harvey Oswald’s wallet–including family photos and ID cards–upon his arrest.
Close up of photo of Lee Harvey Oswald’s wife, Marina, found in his wallet.
The photography exhibition features 70 images that were nearly lost in the 9-11 attacks. Kennedy photographer Jacques Lowe kept the negatives of more than 40,000 Kennedy photographs in a bank vault at the World Trade Center.
Lowe’s photo, restored, shows JFK shaking hands with brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
What if John Kennedy had lived and Jackie Kennedy had succumbed to the conspiracy plot? Read SAVING JACKIE K, a thrilling adventure to rescue the First Lady!
Tags: Assassination, Jackie Kennedy, JFK, Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Mrs. Paine, Popular Culture, Robert Kennedy
