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In the aftermath of the assassination, two men can be seen sitting together on the sidewalk on the right side of the photograph. The "umbrella man" is the one in the dark jacket, farthest to the right. Born. Louie Steven Witt. October 20, 1924. Rockwall, Texas, U.S. Died.
Feb 3, 2023 · A man shows up with an umbrella to voice a little annoyance with the Kennedy family, ends up the witness to an assassination, and then has conspiracy theorists thinking that he's an accomplice, or connected to the CIA, or in possession of a secret weapon that shoots poisonous, dissolving darts (via Smithsonian Magazine and "The Umbrella System ...
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Their investigation revealed that hardly anyone had seen exactly what had happened, and if they had been using cameras, they were pointed at the president. Still, the police collected any and all footage of the assassination, hoping for clues. In the 55 years since the assassination, the FBI still hasnt figured out who the Babushka Lady is for cert...
Then, they found one. Present in almost all of the photos, her face concealed by a headscarf, or a camera, or her hands, was a woman. She appeared to have a camera and appeared to have captured the assassination on film. Immediately the police put out a bulletin requesting information on the woman whom, due to her headscarf, had been dubbed the Bab...
One Babushka Lady suspect, however, stands out among the rest, perhaps because her story was just so outlandish.
In 1970, a woman named Beverly Oliver was at a church revival meeting in Texas, when she revealed to a conspiracy researcher named Gary Shaw that she was the Babushka Lady. She claimed she had filmed the entire assassination on a Super 8 film Yashica camera, but that before she could develop the film two FBI agents had confiscated it.
She admitted that she never saw their credentials, but that they had claimed that they were agents. They told her they would return the film within 10 days, but she never received any kind of confirmation, nor did she ever see the video again. She did admit, however, that she never followed up herself, for fear of being arrested for possessing mari...
As her story was picked up by local news crews and documentary filmmakers, her story was embellished. She even claimed, ludicrously, that she knew Jack Ruby personally and that he had introduced her to JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Ruby, of course, is the man who famously killed Oswald while he was in police custody. Though there was no proof tha...
Whether Olivers story was true or not, even in part, it immediately attracted the attention of the conspiracy theorists.
The assassination itself was already under scrutiny, and the presence of a mysterious woman with a camera just lent itself to the wild ideas already circling. Add in the fact that Oliver had claimed FBI intervention, and her story was a theorists dream.
Her mention of the FBI agents taking her camera added fuel to the fire, and before long theorists were using her claims to cry government coverup.
Today, aside from Beverly Oliver, no other leads on the Babushka Ladys true identity have ever panned out. Perhaps Olivers story is true, and the footage really was taken by people claiming to be FBI agents. But if so, where are they now, and what happened to the footage? Or perhaps the real Babushka Lady is still out there, hidden away and holding...
Aug 2, 2020 · The Umbrella Man was a man named Louie Steven Witt. Witt says he was at Dealey Plaza the day of JFK's assassination in 1963 , with the intention of heckling Kennedy, not killing him.
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Nov 22, 2016 · Seven years after the assassination, in 1970, a former dancer and singer at a burlesque club named Beverly Oliver claimed to be Babushka Lady.
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Dec 26, 2022 · On Nov. 8, 1965, almost two years after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Dorothy Kilgallen was found dead at her East 68th Street townhouse. She was discovered sitting in bed, wearing nothing but a blue bathrobe, false eyelashes, and a floral hair accessory.
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In 2011, on the anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Errol Morris explored the story behind the one man seen standing under an open...
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