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.
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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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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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