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   (Mary Ann Moorman Krahmer)
   Being here today just brings back all the memories.
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   Really mixed emotions – more so than the
   last few times that I’ve been here.
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   I saw a man killed right in front of my eyes.
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   (Hari Sreenivasan - Narrator)
   When Mary Ann Moorman was 31 years old,
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   she learned that the presidential motorcade
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   would drive through downtown Dallas.
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   She was a fan of the first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy,
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    so Mary Ann and a friend, Jean Hill, headed
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    to Dealey Plaza to watch the procession.
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    (Moorman) My son was in school and I had told him,
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    ‘you can’t be out of school,
    but I’ll take a picture for you,’
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    never dreaming that that picture would be part of history.
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    (Narrator) Moorman, shown here in a still frame
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    of the home movie famously shot by Abraham Zapruder –
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    took just one photograph of the President that day —
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    (camera shutter)
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    a grainy Polaroid snapped right as the
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    presidential limousine was passing by.
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    (Moorman) As the car got closer to us,
    I stepped closer to the curb here,
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    and Jean was yelling ‘Mr. President, look this way!”
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    And when I put the camera up to my face,
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    I wanted to make sure it was as close as
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    I could get to him, and I snapped the picture,
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    looking through the viewfinder, of course.
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    (Narrator)
    When the photo was developed, it became clear
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    Moorman had pressed the shutter just as the
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    46-year-old President was hit and fatally wounded
    by a rifle’s bullet.
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    It's the only known photograph of the moment the President
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    was struck that also captures the “grassy knoll…”
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    an image studied endlessly over the years to
    determine if another shooter was there.
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    (Alan Govenar)
    When the motorcade started to pass,
    
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    she realized that she hadn’t taken
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    the one photograph that she promised her son.
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    (Narrator)
    Alan Govenar is the writer and filmmaker behind
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    The Silent Witness Speaks, which documents
    Moorman’s story.
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    (Govenar) And when I asked her, ‘What did you see
    when you looked through the viewfinder?’
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    She said she thought there was a gust of wind,
    because his hair ‘lifted up.’
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    She had no idea that what she was photographing was
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    the assassination of the President of the United States.
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    Jackie hollered, ‘My God, he’s been shot.”
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    We heard that so plain.
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    And then just seconds later, he had slumped over
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    on Jackie and she started to climb out of the car.
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    -Moorman: Well, by that time...
    -Narrator: This interview with Moorman was filmed earlier
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    (Narrator) this year at Dealey Plaza where the 81-year-old
    originally took the iconic picture.
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    The film is now being displayed at an exhibit at the
    International Center of Photography in New York City.
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    It’s called: “JFK: A Bystander’s View of History.”
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    (Brian Wallis)
    To me, photography was a way to manage
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    that grief and that trauma—a way to try
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    to get a handle on what really happened.
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    (Narrator) Brian Wallis, chief curator, pored over thousands
    of photographs for the exhibit.
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    (Wallis) One of the things that immediately struck me
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    about these photographs– was that sort of up close
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    and personal intimacy of these snapshots.
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    I was surprised to find that– people were allowed
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    tremendous access to the president.
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    In fact, the motorcade through Dallas in
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    November 1963 was just for that purpose,
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    so large crowds could get close to the president.
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    The most extraordinary by far is the Polaroid
    
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    taken by Mary Ann Moorman– at the exact instant
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    that the President was struck by the first bullet.
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    And it all happened in such - just seconds,
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    moments really. And it was over with.
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    (cars passing by)