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词条 Mary Moorman
释义

  1. Biography

  2. Assassination witness

     Controversy 

  3. References

  4. External links

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| name = Mary Ann Moorman
| image = Hill and moorman.png
| caption = Assassination witnesses Mary Ann Moorman (center right) and Jean Hill (center left), as seen in Frame 298 of the Zapruder film
| birth_name = Mary Ann Boshart
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1932|08|05}}
| spouse = {{married|Donald G. Moorman|1952|1973|end=div.}}
{{married|Gary Krahmer|1980}}
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Mary Ann Moorman (born {{Birth date|1932|8|5}}) was a witness to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. She is best known for her photograph capturing the presidential limousine a fraction of a second after the fatal shot.

Biography

Mary Ann Moorman was born Mary Ann Boshart. She married Donald G. Moorman in 1952 and divorced him in 1973.[1] She later married Gary Krahmer in 1980.

Assassination witness

On November 22, 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

Moorman was standing on grass about {{convert|2|ft|cm}} south of the south curb of Elm Street in Dealey Plaza, directly across from the grassy knoll and the North Pergola concrete structure that Abraham Zapruder and his assistant Marilyn Sitzman were standing on — during the assassination. Moorman stated that she stepped off the grass onto the street to take a photo with her Polaroid camera. Zapruder can be seen standing on the pergola in the Moorman photograph, with the presidential limousine already having passed through the line of sight between Zapruder and Moorman.

Both Moorman and her friend, Jean Hill, can be clearly seen in the Zapruder film.[2] Between Zapruder frames 315 and 316, Moorman took a Polaroid photograph, her fifth that day, showing the presidential limousine with the grassy knoll area in the background.

Moorman's photograph captured the fatal head shot that killed President Kennedy. When she took it – approximately one sixth of a second after President Kennedy was struck in the head at Zapruder frame 313, Moorman was standing behind and to the left of President Kennedy, about {{convert|15|ft|m|0}} from the presidential limousine.[3] Moorman said in a TV interview that immediately after the assassination, there were three or four shots close together, that shots were still being fired after the fatal head shot, and that she was in the line of fire.[4] She later stated in a 2013 PBS documentary Kennedy Half Century that she was close enough to hear Jackie Kennedy exclaim that John had been shot.

In 2013, Moorman attempted to sell the original polaroid through Cowan’s Auctions in Cincinnati.[5][6] The photo was expected to sell between $50,000 and $75,000, but did not meet its reserve.[6] She had previously tried selling the photo to Sotheby's in New York, but the auction house deemed it to be "too sensitive to auction".[6] That same year, she expressed her opinion on the assassination; she was convinced that Kennedy was killed as a conspiracy. "I really don’t know what exactly happened, but I do know there is bound to be a lot more to the story that hasn't been told," she said. "I was hoping it would come out in my lifetime, but who knows. So much has been hidden by the government; anything can take place and it can be hidden. Oswald probably wasn't a lone person, he probably had backers. I really do think it was a conspiracy".

Controversy

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Whatever was captured in the background of Moorman’s photo has been a matter of contentious debate. On the grassy knoll, some have claimed to identify as many as four different human figures, while others dismiss these indistinct images as either trees or shadows. Most often, one figure has been dubbed the "Badge Man" as it seems to resemble a uniformed police officer wearing a badge. Others claim to see Gordon Arnold, a man who claimed to have filmed the assassination from that area, a man in a construction hard hat, and a hatted man behind the stockade fence.[7]

Moorman stated she heard a shot as the limousine passed her, then heard another two shots, "pow pow," when the president's head exploded. She stated that she could not determine where the shots came from, and that she saw no one in the area that appeared to have possibly been the assassin.[8] Moorman was interviewed by the Dallas County Sheriff's Department and the FBI. She was called by the Warren Commission to testify, but due to a sprained ankle, she was unable to be questioned. She was never contacted by them again.

References

1. ^Ancestry.com. Texas Divorce Index, 1968-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.
2. ^Moorman is visible in Zapruder frames 290 through 316. Zapruder Frames: Costella Combined Edit.
3. ^{{Cite book |title=Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy |last=Bugliosi |first=Vincent |authorlink=Vincent Bugliosi |year=2007 |publisher=W.W. Norton |location=New York |isbn=978-0-393-04525-3 |page=43 }}
4. ^JFK Lancer, ABC/WFAA interview of Mary Moorman filmed late in the afternoon of 11/22/63
5. ^"Historic Kennedy assassination photo to be auctioned" [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/17/historic-kennedy-assassination-photo-to-be-auctioned-/3005335/ USA Today, October 17, 2013]
6. ^{{cite news |last=Coffey |first=Laura T. |date=November 15, 2013 |title=JFK 'grassy knoll' photo fails to sell at auction |url=http://www.today.com/news/historic-jfk-grassy-knoll-jfk-photo-auction-friday-2D11599940 |newspaper=Today.com |publisher=NBC News |location= |accessdate=December 8, 2014}}
7. ^{{cite news|last=Young|first=Michael E.|title=Gary Mack and the evolution of a JFK conspiracy theorist|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/news/jfk50/explore/20130302-gary-mack-and-the-evolution-of-a-jfk-conspiracy-theorist.ece|accessdate=December 13, 2016|newspaper=The Dallas Morning News|date=March 2, 2013|location=Dallas}}
8. ^FBI interview of Mary Ann Moorman, taken 1963-11-22, CE 1426, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 22, pp. 838-839.

External links

  • Dallas Sheriff's Dept. Affidavit of Mary Ann Moorman, November 22, 1963.
  • Testimony of Mary Ann Moorman in the Clay Shaw trial, 1969.
  • Uncropped high quality version of the Moorman Polaroid.
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928061041/http://www.copweb.be/Mary%20Moorman%20Photos.htm The five Moorman photographs].
  • JFK Online: Badge Man and the Mary Moorman Polaroid.
  • Dealey Plaza eyewitness: Mary Moorman, interview posted September 12, 2016.
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