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Altgens returned to Dealey Plaza to photograph the assassination site for diagramming purposes, then was sent
to Dallas City Hall to retrieve the work of another AP
photographer who had pictures of accused assassin Lee
Harvey Oswald in custody. This was the only time he saw
the suspect, and Altgens thought Oswald showed signs of
having been thoroughly interrogated.[30]
2.2.2 The man resembling Lee Harvey Oswald
Ten days after Kennedy was assassinated, the Associated
Press in Dallas reported that Altgens rst photograph
along Elm Street had captured the attention of people who
noticed that one of the men standing in the main doorway
to the book depository appeared to resemble the accused
2.2
3
itory workers in an eort to determine the identity of
the man in Altgens photograph; hearings included testimony from ve people who said Lovelady was there,
and from three others (including Lovelady) who directly identied him in the picture.[lower-alpha 10] Ultimately, the commission decided Oswald was not in the
doorway.[48][lower-alpha 11]
In 1978, the House Select Committee on Assassinations studied several still and motion images, including
an enhanced version of the Altgens photograph, in the
scope of its investigation. The committee also concluded
that Lovelady was the man pictured in the depository
doorway.[51]
The ocial conclusions were still being debated by academics and conspiracy theorists more than 50 years after the assassination.[52] One such theorist, Texas author Jim Marrs,[53] wrote that most researchers were
ready to accept Lovelady as the man in Altgens photograph. He later wrote that others were resisting any such
acceptance.[54]
2.2.3 Witness to history
Commission representatives interviewed several depos- fare, but Altgens did not want to go; he thought Garrison
6 NOTES
Later life
4 Death
7 References
7.1 Footnotes
[1] Journalists Remember 1993, 1:52:48.
[2] Trask 1994, pp. 3189.
[3] Texas State Board of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics.
Standard Certicate of Birth. No. 15971. Filed May 2,
1919.
[4] Texas State Board of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics.
Standard Certicate of Birth. No. 39640. Filed July 25,
1921.
[5] Registration Card. Serial No. 3262. Order No. 4506.
September 12, 1918.
[6] Texas State Board of Health Bureau of Vital Statistics.
Standard Certicate of Death. No. 16279. Filed April 4,
1932.
[7] Trask 1994, p. 307.
[8] Pierce, Arthur C. (1960). Beyond the Time Barrier.
American International Pictures.
[9] Trask 1998, p. 58.
[10] Pierce 1960, at 0:39.
[11] Pierce 1960, at 1:13:44. Gentlemen, we have got a lot to
think about.
[12] The American Film Institute (1976). American Film Institute Catalog: Feature Films 19611970. Vol. 1, Part
2 (hardcover ed.). University of California Press. p. 13.
ISBN 0-520-20970-2.
REFERENCES
[32] Associated Press (May 24, 1964). "'Most Controversial Photo of Decade' Is Published. Sarasota, Florida.
Retrieved December 28, 2014 via Sarasota HeraldTribune, p. 2.
7.2
Bibliography
7.2 Bibliography
Publications
Hill, Clint; McCubbin, Lisa (2013). Five Days in
November (hardcover ed.). Gallery Books. ISBN
978-1-4767-3149-0. Cited as Hill & McCubbin
2013.
Marrs, Jim (2013). Crossre: The Plot that Killed
Kennedy (e-book ed.). Carroll & Graf. ISBN 9780-465-05087-1. Cited as Marrs 2013.
Pett, Saul; Moody, Sid; Mulligan, Hugh; et al., eds.
(1963). The Torch Is Passed: The Associated Press
Story of the Death of a President, John F. Kennedy
(hardcover ed.). Associated Press. ISBN 978-086101-568-9. Cited as Pett 1963.
The Presidents Commission on the Assassination of
President Kennedy (Warren Commission) (1964).
Warren Commission Hearings and Exhibits. United
States Government Printing Oce via Mary Ferrell Foundation. Cited as WCH 1964.
Sneed, Larry A. (1998). James W. Altgens: Eyewitness. No More Silence: An Oral History of the
Assassination of President Kennedy. Denton, Texas:
University of North Texas Press. pp. 4159. ISBN
978-1-57441-148-5. Cited as Sneed 1998.
Trask, Richard B. (1994). Pictures of the Pain: Photography and the Assassination of President Kennedy
(hardcover ed.). Yeoman Press. ISBN 0-96385950-1. Cited as Trask 1994.
Trask, Richard B. (1998). That Day in Dallas:
Three Photographers Capture On Film the Day President Kennedy Died (paperback ed.). Yeoman Press.
ISBN 0-9638595-2-8. Cited as Trask 1998.
United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (1978). House Select Committee Hearings and Appendices. United States
Government Printing Oce via History Matters.
Cited as HSCA 1978.
Multimedia
Journalists Remember JFK Assassination (video)
(television broadcast of Reporters Remember 11-2263). C-SPAN. November 20, 1993. Retrieved
March 18, 2014. Cited as Journalists Remember
1993.
Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? (video). Frontline
(investigative biography). PBS. November 16,
1993. Retrieved November 18, 2016. Cited as
Frontline 1993.
Further reading
The Presidents Commission on the Assassination of
President Kennedy (Warren Commission) (1964).
Testimony of James W. Altgens. Warren Commission Hearings (WCH). VII. United States Government Printing Oce. pp. 51525.
External links
AP Explore: JFK Assassination 50th anniversary
(Associated Pressincludes images of Altgens
original AP bulletin with handwritten notes)
JFK Remembered: That Awful Day (Abilene
Reporter-Newsincludes images by and of Altgens,
and a 2013 snapshot of his initial AP bulletin)
Records of the John F. Kennedy Assassination Collection: Key Persons Files: Altgens, James W.
(National Archives and Records Administration)
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