Photograph of Oliver Stone, Kevin Costner and Marina Oswald at dinner

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. - Stephen Fagin, Curator

The obscured individual to the left of Marina Oswald Porter is likely her youngest daughter, Rachel.  Researcher Jake Ingebrigtson brought our attention to a March 1995 interview with Ms. Oswald in Texas Monthly magazine in which she details her mother’s first meeting with director Oliver Stone.  In the interview, she recalled, “I was visiting my mother in Dallas. She told me that there was going to be a movie made about the assassination and asked if I wanted to have lunch that afternoon with Oliver Stone and Kevin Costner—my mother didn’t even know who they were—and I was thinking to myself, ‘Oh, my gosh, I’m going to have lunch with Oliver Stone and Kevin Costner!’ So we meet them at a Chinese restaurant. It was so exciting, you know, me being a young woman and everything.”  The smiling woman on Ms. Porter’s right side remains unidentified.  – Stephen Fagin, Curator