The+Babushka+Lady

On November 22nd, 1963, one of the most famous assasinations took place in Dallas, Texas: John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the U.S.A. was shot while travelling in an open motorcade. The perpetrator was eventually caught, but questions still surround the unfolding of the events, the accused's guilt, and the assassination plot.

Shown in the following picture, below the white arrow, is a woman in a headscarf who was seen by eyewitnesses holding a camera. She was also caught on film accounts of the assassination, where even as the assassination was occurring and bystanders took cover, she remained standing for a split second longer with the camera to her face. []

She later left to join the larger crowd that gathered and was never identified. The FBI and the police never found her, despite sending out requests for any photo evidence of the assasination. Various people have claimed to be her, but those claims turned out false. All the general public had to identify her by was the scarf she wore around her head, a headscarf commonly worn by elderly Russian ladies. It was called a Babushka scarf, and in turn, she was named the Babushka Lady.

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