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Photograph of Jim Leavelle and Jean Hill on the set of the movie "JFK"
Photograph of Jim Leavelle and Jean Hill on the set of the movie "JFK"

Photograph of Jim Leavelle and Jean Hill on the set of the movie "JFK"

Object number2005.017.0082
DateApril 1991 - May 1991
ClassificationsPhotographs
Photographer Lovita Irby
ObjectPhotograph (color)
Credit LineLovita Irby Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumPaper, Photo
Dimensions4 x 5 7/8 in. (10.1 x 14.9 cm)
Collections
DescriptionPhotograph taken by Dallas resident Lovita Irby on the set of Oliver Stone's movie "JFK" in Dealey Plaza. The photograph shows Detective James "Jim" Leavelle with assassination eyewitness Jean Hill in Dealey Plaza. Elm Street and the Dallas County Criminal Courts building can be seen in the background.
Curatorial Commentary

As a teenager in 1963, Dallas resident Lovita Irby was near the corner of Elm and Houston Streets at the time of the Kennedy assassination. In 1991, she was one of several historical consultants to filmmaker Oliver Stone during the Dallas production of the Warner Brothers film, JFK. Irby extensively photographed the Dallas production and donated many of her images to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in 2005.

Like Irby, both Leavelle and Hill were consultants during the Dallas production of JFK. - Stephen Fagin, Curator