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Image of Marina Oswald, June Oswald and Hugh Aynesworth sitting together
Image of Marina Oswald, June Oswald and Hugh Aynesworth sitting together

Image of Marina Oswald, June Oswald and Hugh Aynesworth sitting together

Object number1994.003.0064
DateJune 1964
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer Tom C. Dillard
ObjectNegative (b&w)
Credit LineTom C. Dillard Collection, The Dallas Morning News/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumFilm
Dimensions2 3/8 × 3 1/16 in. (6.1 × 7.8 cm)
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DescriptionOriginal 120 format black and white negative on Kodak Safety Film by Dallas Morning News chief photographer Tom Dillard. This image shows Marina Oswald sitting in a chair while June Oswald sits on the floor of their Richardson, Texas home in the June of 1964. Dallas Morning News reporter Hugh Aynesworth is seated on a couch next to them.
Curatorial Commentary
Hugh Aynesworth was a science and aviation reporter at The Dallas Morning News at the time of the Kennedy assassination. As the only known reporter to witness the shooting in Dealey Plaza, the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald at the Texas Theatre and the shooting of Oswald by Jack Ruby, Aynesworth quickly became deeply involved in ongoing coverage of the assassination story in Dallas. In the aftermath, he followed up a number of investigative leads, wrote numerous stories and interviewed many key witnesses, including Marina Oswald. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator