Title from caption on object: “Lee Harvey Oswald Holding the Rifle...”, March 1963

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Medium

gelatin silver print with applied color

Dimensions

image: 19.3 × 14.5 cm (7 5/8 × 5 11/16 in.)

sheet: 19.9 × 15.3 cm (7 13/16 × 6 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.519

Artists / Makers

Marina Oswald (artist) American, born Russia, 1941

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Inscription

retouching across recto in black ink, white and black paint; on verso, crop marks in graphite and blue ink along center; by unknown hand, center in blue ink crossed out in graphite: 735 [circled] / SMH TV GUIDE / 71 x 92 [crossed out] DEEP [circled] / rounded corner [?] / Oswald; along right edge in black ink: Assassination of President Kennedy / Wedy Frdy 19 8:30 pm.; lower left stamped in purple ink perpendicular: 7 OCT 1983; lower left: USED / -7 OCT 1983 / NATIONAL TIMES; lower center: USED 16 JUL 1978 / SUN HERALD; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite circled: S/S / NT / P.20; lower right printed in black ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: A photograph showing / Lee Harvey Oswald [underlined in black ink] hold- / ing the rifle that alleg- / edly killed President Ken- / nedy has been an- / nounced a fake.; bottom right stamped in purple ink: 17 JUL 1978; bottom right: 9 MAR 1984; by unknown hand, bottom right in blue ink: 97%

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary