1. Mary Ann Moorman is an American woman who chanced to photograph US president John F Kennedy a fraction of a second after he was fatally shot in the head in Dallas, Texas.
15 Facts About Mary Moorman
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Mary Moorman married Donald G Moorman in 1952 and divorced him in 1973.
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Mary Moorman said she promised to take a picture for him.
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Mary Moorman stated that she stepped off the grass onto the street to take a photo with her Polaroid camera.
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Between Zapruder frames 315 and 316, Mary Moorman took a Polaroid photograph, her fifth that day, showing the presidential limousine with the grassy knoll area in the background.
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Mary Moorman's photograph captured the fatal headshot that killed President Kennedy.
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Mary Moorman said in a TV interview that immediately after the assassination, there were three or four shots close together, that shots were still being fired after the fatal headshot, and that she was in the line of fire.
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Mary Moorman later stated in a 2013 PBS documentary Kennedy Half Century that she was close enough to hear Jackie Kennedy exclaim that John had been shot.
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In 2013, Mary Moorman attempted to sell the original Polaroid through Cowan's Auctions in Cincinnati.
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Mary Moorman had previously tried selling the photo to Sotheby's in New York, but the auction house deemed it to be "too sensitive to auction".
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Whatever was captured in the background of Mary Moorman's photo has been a matter of contentious debate.
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Mary Moorman stated she heard a shot as the limousine passed her, then heard another two shots, "pow pow", when the president's head exploded.
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Mary Moorman stated that she could not determine where the shots came from, and that she saw no one in the area that appeared to have possibly been the assassin.
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Mary Moorman was interviewed by the Dallas County Sheriff's Department and the FBI.
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Mary Moorman was called by the Warren Commission to testify, but due to a sprained ankle, she was unable to be questioned.