/internal/media/dispatcher/8063/fullPhotograph of Jim Leavelle and Jean Hill on the set of the movie "JFK"April 1991 - May 19914 x 5 7/8 in. (10.1 x 14.9 cm)Paper, PhotoLovita Irby Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2005.017.00820Photograph taken by the donor Lovita Irby during the filming of the 1991 movie JFK. Photo shows James Leavelle and Jean Hill standing side by side. Elm, Street, Dealey Plaza, and the Dallas County Criminal Courts can be seen in the background. Printed on "Kodak Royal Paper." Originally stored in a plastic bag marked, "Real People 10" in black marker.Photographs6416714.900000000010.100000000032731Photograph (color)0E-10Photograph 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."JFK"Re-enactmentDealey PlazaElm StreetPhotographsMovieStone, OliverIrby, LovitaLeavelle, JimHill, JeanDallas County Criminal Courts BuildingDallasAs 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