Mary Moorman
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Mary Ann Moorman (born 1932) was a witness to the John F. Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963.
Moorman was standing in the grass a couple feet south of the south curb of Elm Street, directly across from the grassy knoll and the North Pergola concrete structure that Abraham Zapruder and his assistant Marilyn Sitzman were standing on during the assassination.
Moorman was standing only 20' (6 meters) behind and to the left of President Kennedy with her friend, Jean Hill, and are clearly seen in the Zapruder film.
Between Zapruder film frames Z-315 and 316, a micro-second after President Kennedy's head first exploded at Z-313, Moorman captured a polaroid photograph (her fifth that day) of the presidential limousine and President Kennedy that also includes the grassy knoll area. What was captured in the photo has been a matter of contentious debate. On the grassy knoll some claim to have identified as many as four different figures, while others dismiss these indistinct images as trees or shadows. Most often a figure is identified as the "badge man" because the figure is supposedly a uniformed policeman. Others claim to see Gordon Arnold, a man who claimed to have film the assassination from that area, a man in a construction hard hat, and a hatted man behind the picket fence.
Moorman stated she heard a shot as the limousine passed her, then heard another shot or two after the president's head first exploded. Mary Moorman was never called to testify to the Warren Commission.
External links
- The Moorman polaroid (http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/moorman.jpg)
- JFK Online: Badge Man and the Mary Moorman polaroid (http://www.jfk-online.com/jfk100badge.html)
