The Badge Man is a figure said to be present within a photograph taken
by Mary Moorman of the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22,
1963, captured a fraction of a second after a bullet struck Kennedy's
head. Such a person is not present in any other photographs of the
assassination and was not seen by any witnesses. Much of the detail is
obscured, some believe by a muzzle flash. The moniker derives from a
bright spot on what is deemed the figure's chest, said to resemble a
gleaming badge. The photograph was analyzed by the House Select
Committee on Assassinations, but no evidence of hidden figures was
found. However, in 1983, Gary Mack—the curator of the Sixth Floor
Museum—obtained a higher quality copy of the photograph. Upon
enhancement, Mack noted what he believed to be the Badge Man in the
shadowed background. Conspiracy theorists have suggested that this
figure is a sniper or a man in police uniform, and believe it to be a
second assassin, firing at Kennedy from the grassy knoll.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badge_Man>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1864:
American Civil War: Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Overland
Campaign in Virginia began with the inconclusive Battle of the
Wilderness in Spotsylvania County.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Wilderness>
1945:
World War II: The citizens of Prague spontaneously rose up
against the city's German occupiers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_uprising>
1980:
The British Special Air Service recaptured the Iranian embassy
in London after a six-day siege by Iranian Arab separatists.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Embassy_siege>
2007:
Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashed immediately after takeoff from
Douala International Airport in Cameroon, resulting in the deaths of all
114 people aboard.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya_Airways_Flight_507>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
interior Mexican:
(US, chiefly Austin, Texas) Especially of cuisine: of or pertaining to
the country Mexico itself, in contrast to Tex-Mex (“a mix of Texan and
Mexican”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/interior_Mexican>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided
they be sincere, renders a service to future psychologists and writers,
giving them not only a faithful picture, but likewise human documents
that may be relied upon.
--Henryk Sienkiewicz
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henryk_Sienkiewicz>
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