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Photograph of replica presidential limousine during filming of "JFK"
Photograph taken by Dallas resident Lovita Irby during the filming of Oliver Stone's movie "JFK" in Dealey Plaza. The picture shows the replica presidential limousine as it moves down Elm Street, past the location where shots struck the president. The image shows the actor playing Secret Service agent Clint Hill acting out Hill's famous climb onto the back of the limousine. Actors playing assassination eyewitnesses Bill and Gayle Newman and their two boys can be seen crouching on the grass.
Photograph of replica presidential limousine during filming of "JFK"
April 1991 - May 1991
Paper, Photo
4 x 5 7/8 in. (10.2 x 14.9 cm)
Lovita Irby Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2005.017.0009
Eyewitness Bill Newman was played by the actor Vincent D'Onofrio. - Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections
As a teenager in 1963, Dallas resident Lovita Irby was near the corner of Elm and Houston Streets at the time of the Kennedy assassination. In 1991, she was one of several historical consultants to filmmaker Oliver Stone during the Dallas production of the Warner Brothers film, JFK. Irby extensively photographed the Dallas production and donated many of her images to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in 2005. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
Photograph of replica presidential limousine during filming of "JFK"
Photograph taken by Dallas resident Lovita Irby during the filming of Oliver Stone's movie "JFK" in Dealey Plaza. The picture shows the replica presidential limousine as it moves down Elm Street, past the location where shots struck the president. The image shows the actor playing Secret Service agent Clint Hill acting out Hill's famous climb onto the back of the limousine. Actors playing assassination eyewitnesses Bill and Gayle Newman and their two boys can be seen crouching on the grass.
Photograph of replica presidential limousine during filming of "JFK"
April 1991 - May 1991
"JFK"
Re-enactment
Dealey Plaza
Limousine
Photographs
Movie
Irby, Lovita
Stone, Oliver
Hill, Clint
Newman, Bill
Newman, Gayle
Groden, Robert J.
Dallas
Paper, Photo
4 x 5 7/8 in. (10.2 x 14.9 cm)
Lovita Irby Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2005.017.0009
Eyewitness Bill Newman was played by the actor Vincent D'Onofrio. - Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections
As a teenager in 1963, Dallas resident Lovita Irby was near the corner of Elm and Houston Streets at the time of the Kennedy assassination. In 1991, she was one of several historical consultants to filmmaker Oliver Stone during the Dallas production of the Warner Brothers film, JFK. Irby extensively photographed the Dallas production and donated many of her images to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in 2005. - Stephen Fagin, Curator