Photograph of actors on the set of Oliver Stone's "JFK" in Dealey Plaza

Full Screen

Back

Photograph of actors on the set of Oliver Stone's "JFK" in Dealey Plaza

Photograph taken by Dallas resident Lovita Irby during the filming of Oliver Stone's movie "JFK" in Dealey Plaza. The photograph shows the actor playing assassination eyewitness Abraham Zapruder standing beside the actor playing his receptionist Marilyn Sitzman. The actors (Lynne Rostochil and Ray LePere) are in front of the north pergola in Dealey Plaza. He has his arm around her waist. Both are dressed in costume.

Object Details
Object title:

Photograph of actors on the set of Oliver Stone's "JFK" in Dealey Plaza

Date:

April 1991 - May 1991

Medium:

Paper, Photo

Dimensions:

5 7/8 x 4 in. (14.9 x 10.1 cm)

Credit line:

Lovita Irby Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2005.017.0116

Curatorial Note:

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 actors on the set of Oliver Stone's "JFK" in Dealey Plaza

Photograph taken by Dallas resident Lovita Irby during the filming of Oliver Stone's movie "JFK" in Dealey Plaza. The photograph shows the actor playing assassination eyewitness Abraham Zapruder standing beside the actor playing his receptionist Marilyn Sitzman. The actors (Lynne Rostochil and Ray LePere) are in front of the north pergola in Dealey Plaza. He has his arm around her waist. Both are dressed in costume.

Object Details
Object title:

Photograph of actors on the set of Oliver Stone's "JFK" in Dealey Plaza

Date:

April 1991 - May 1991

Terms:

"JFK"

Re-enactment

Dealey Plaza

Photographs

Movie

Stone, Oliver

Irby, Lovita

LePere, Ray

Rostochil, Lynne

Zapruder, Abraham

Sitzman, Marilyn

Dallas

Medium:

Paper, Photo

Dimensions:

5 7/8 x 4 in. (14.9 x 10.1 cm)

Credit line:

Lovita Irby Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2005.017.0116

Curatorial Note:

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