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A woman seen in video footage from the day President John F Kennedy was assassinated has finally been identified after 62 years.
The woman was photographed and filmed wearing the garment and holding a little boy but had remained unknown for decades.
Joan Jackson, now 94, has finally been publicly named as the woman in the photo and the little boy her friend's then-three year old son.
It was Jackson's daughter who helped confirm her fame, calling Stephen Fagin, the head of curatorial at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.
The museum is a tribute to President Kennedy and explores the assassination on November 22, 1963, as well as the life of the shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald and conspiracy theories involved with the shooting.
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'Her daughter happened to call me at the museum and say, "My mom saw the parade.
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mom → happen → parade
She's wearing a headscarf,"' Fagin told CBS Texas.
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Fagin → wear → Texas
After all these years, however, Jackson - who still owns the headscarf - was completely unaware she was ever on camera in the first place.
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she → own → place
'I didn't even know anyone was filming it.
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It's like I'm looking right at the camera,' Jackson said.
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A woman seen in video footage from the day President John F Kennedy was assassinated has finally been identified after 62 years
Joan Jackson, now 94, has finally been publicly named as the woman in the photo and the little boy her friend's then-three year old son
Jackson, at 94, now lives in a senior facility in Dallas.
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Jackson → see → Dallas
The day of the shooting, everyone knew where the President would be traveling through the city.
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'It just went on and on for a while.
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Initially, the Kennedys car had been covered up but eventually, they were able to get a clear look at the President and his wife, First Lady Jacqueline.
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they → cover → President
'They announced that the sun was coming out and that they were going to take the bubble off of the car,' Jackson said.
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Jackson → announce → car
'It was just such a beautiful setting for me to see them go by.
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them → see → ?
I know we kept saying to each other, 'I can't believe this,'' she added.
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she → know → this
Fagin sees the identification of Jackson as a way of continuing to connect all the pieces of the day of the shooting.
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Fagin → see → shooting
'They're like puzzle pieces that fit into this broader tapestry of living memory, and they help to connect us to the moment and the memory of that event and make this story relevant to younger people born decades after the 1960s,' he said.
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Jackson remains sharp at her age and remembers the day extremely well, knowing exact streets she walked that day.
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After all these years, however, Jackson - who still owns the headscarf - was completely unaware she was ever on camera in the first place
President John F. Kennedy smiles at the crowd that had gathered along the presidential motorcade route in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963
'The older ones, we won't be around much longer, and I think the young ones need to know what happened,' she said.
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Fagin added: 'It provides this tangible link to the moment, and the memory of the assassination, and to preserve that makes this event real and relevant today.'
The headscarf is set to go on display at the museum, while Jackson's musings will be preserved on its YouTube page.
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Kennedy's death put a brutal end to the tenure of the youngest person ever elected to the world's most powerful office, a tragedy that retraumatized a nation that hadn't dealt with a presidential assassination since William McKinley was killed in 1901.
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The effects of the Kennedy assassination reverberated long after the day it happened.
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From then on, people were much more willing to entertain conspiracy theories thanks to widespread skepticism over the 'single bullet theory' and inconsistences with Kennedy's autopsy.
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There's also the fact that just 29 percent of Americans believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, according to a 2023 Gallup poll.
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Sixty-five percent believe there was a conspiracy involved.
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What made Kennedy's murder different from McKinley's, James A. Garfield's and Abraham Lincoln's, was that there were high-definition photos capturing the moments before, during and after the two bullets struck.
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Pictures taken by reporters and bystanders show a startling juxtaposition that day.
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Jubilant crowds welcomed the 35th president one second, and the next, panicked throngs dove to the ground as First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy cradled the mangled head of her husband.
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Kennedy → welcome → husband
Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested by Dallas police officers roughly 45 minutes after shooting Kennedy.
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He also murdered Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit, who recognized him
The funeral procession for Kennedy in front of the Capitol Building on November 25, 1963, three days after he was killed
Kennedy was in Texas with his wife and Vice President Lyndon B Johnson the day of his assassination and the day prior to shore up support among Democrats in the state ahead of the 1964 election.
On November 21, he visited San Antonio, Houston and Fort Worth.
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The next morning, he took a short flight to Dallas, landing in Love Field.
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Kennedy greeted his supporters and departed from the airport in his open-top limousine at 11.55am.
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Seated to his left was the first lady, his wife of 10 years.
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In front of him, in the second row sat Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie.
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The dark blue, modified 1961 Lincoln Continental convertible was headed for the Dallas Trade Mart, where Kennedy was slated to give a speech focused on how America was in the strongest position it had ever been on the world stage.
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At around 12.30pm, the motorcade turned onto Elm Street in Dealey Plaza, where Kennedy was shot twice in quick succession.
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One of the bullets also struck Governor Connally.
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Right before he was shot, Nellie Connally referenced the people cheering for Kennedy and said to him: 'Well, Mr. President, you can't say there aren't some people in Dallas who love you.'
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According to the Warren Commission, three shots were fired in total.
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The first bullet missed, while the second struck Kennedy near the base of the back of his neck and exited out of the front of his neck.
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second → miss → neck
The third bullet entered the back of his head on the right and exited out the same side, causing the massive wound that ultimately killed him.
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