Babushka Lady
Directly
following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, FBI and CIA
investigators began questioning and taking statements from the spectators whom
were present on the afternoon of Novemeber 22, 1963
Those who were filming or photographing the day, especially when
the shots were fired had pictures and film taken by the investigators.
These statements, pictures and films would then be pieced
together to determine exactly what happened.
The photos and films were not necessarily of the best quality, but
never the less, they provided evidence that has since been examined over and
over.
In the panic following the shooting, bystanders fled for cover,
it was not immediately clear which direction the shots came from and people ran
in every direction, running in to each other and fleeing towards whatever
“safe” places they could find.
The evidence the investigators collected was conflicting,
hundreds of witness recalled different events, statements changed, the pictures
and films became more important.
A strange mystery
She is located close to the street, and had an extremely good
vantage point for capturing the events surrounding the shooting.
Over her hair she is wearing a scarf of a tan or light brown
color — the headscarf earned her the nickname of the “Babushka Lady,” a
reference to a similar Russian scarf.
While she appears in several photos, probably the best and
closest image of the woman is from a movie taken by Marie Muchmore, a spectator
of the motorcade. Unfortunately, the mystery woman has her back to Muchmore,
obscuring a clear identification. She appears in several other photographs, but
never clearly enough to make some kind of identification.
Who was the Babushka Lady(Beverly Oliver)?
In 1970, a woman named Beverly
Oliver came forward and claimed to be the Babushka Lady. She had worked in 1963
as a singer and dancer at the Colony Club, a strip club that competed with Jack Ruby'sCarousel Club next door. In
1994, she released a memoir entitled Nightmare in Dallas, which
purports to chronicle the events of the day of Kennedy's assassination. Oliver
said that after the assassination, she was contacted at work by two men who she
thought were "either FBI or Secret Service agents". According to
Oliver, the men told her that they wanted to develop her film and would return
it to her within ten days, but they never returned the film.
Beverly Oliver's recollections
were the basis for a scene in Oliver
Stone's 1991 film JFK, in
which a character named "Beverly" meets Jim Garrison in a Dallas nightclub. Played by Lolita Davidovich, she is depicted in
the director's cut as wearing a headscarf at Dealey Plaza
and speaking of having given the film she shot to two men claiming to be FBI
agents.
A false claim
In 1970, Beverly Oliver claimed to be the Babushka Lady and that her camera had been confiscated by the FBI on the day of the assassination and never returned. At first this seemed to be the solution to the mystery, until Oliver identified the camera she had used, which was a model that had not been in production until several years after the assassination. Similarly, witnesses who had been standing near the Babushka Lady stated Oliver was not nearby. Additionally, analysis of the photos that included the Babushka Lady seem to indicate a woman much older and heavier than Oliver, who was 17 and slim in 1963.
So why hasn’t she ever come forward? What does she have to hide?
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