Ike Altgens (April 28, 1919 – December 12, 1995) was an American photojournalist, photo editor and field reporter for the Associated Press (AP) who took two photographs that circulated worldwide after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK). Altgens was 19 when he began his AP career, which was interrupted by military service during World War II. When his service time ended, he returned to Dallas, Texas, got married, and went back to work for the local AP bureau, eventually earning a position as a senior editor. He was on assignment for the AP when he captured two historic images on November 22, 1963. The second photo, showing First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy toward the rear of the presidential limousine and Secret Service agent Clint Hill on its bumper, was reproduced on the front pages of newspapers around the world. Within days, Altgens' preceding photo became controversial after people began to question whether it showed accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in the main doorway of the Texas School Book Depository as the gunshots were fired at JFK.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1577:

Sir Francis Drake left Plymouth, England, with five ships and 164 men on his round-the-world voyage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake

1862:

American Civil War: Union forces under Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside suffered severe casualties against entrenched Confederate defenders at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Fredericksburg, Virginia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fredericksburg

1960:

With Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie out of the country, four conspirators staged a coup attempt and installed Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen as the new Emperor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Ethiopian_coup_attempt

1989:

The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army engaged in a fierce firefight with the King's Own Scottish Borderers at a vehicle checkpoint complex in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Derryard_checkpoint

2006:

The baiji, a freshwater dolphin found only in the Yangtze River in China, was announced as functionally extinct by leaders of the Yangtze Freshwater Dolphin Expedition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiji

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

feague: 1. To increase the liveliness of a horse by inserting an irritant, such as a piece of peeled raw ginger or a live eel, in its fundament. 2. (obsolete) To beat or whip; to drive. 3. (obsolete) To subject to some harmful scheme; to ‘do in’. […] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/feague

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

There are those... who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot. Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.   --Aga Khan IV https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aga_Khan_IV