The Execution of The Assassin
Seven photographers captured what would become the most infamous perp walk in history. One found redemption, and won a Pulitzer.
Sixty years ago today, Dallas police unknowingly led John F. Kennedy’s accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, to his death.
Dallas Times Herald photographer Robert “Bob” Jackson was staked out in the basement of police headquarters, anxiously awaiting — and seeking redemption. Two days earlier, Jackson had run out of film after Kennedy was assassinated, missing everything, including a shot of Oswald’s rifle peeking from the sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository.
At 11:21 a.m. on November 24, 1963, Jackson squeezed the shutter on his Nikon S3 just as Jack Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald, capturing The Moment of Impact.
Jackson redeemed himself.