Photograph of actor Gary Oldman taken during filming of "JFK"

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Photograph of actor Gary Oldman taken during filming of "JFK"

Color photograph of actor Gary Oldman playing Lee Harvey Oswald during the filming of the 1991 movie "JFK." Oldman is enacting the scene during which Oswald shot Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit in Oak Cliff. For "JFK," Tippit was played by actor Price Carson. The photo was taken by Dallas resident Lovita Irby during filming on location in Dallas.

Object Details
Object title:

Photograph of actor Gary Oldman taken during filming of "JFK"

Date:

April 1991 - May 1991

Medium:

Paper, Photo

Dimensions:

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

Credit line:

Lovita Irby Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2005.017.0179

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 actor Gary Oldman taken during filming of "JFK"

Color photograph of actor Gary Oldman playing Lee Harvey Oswald during the filming of the 1991 movie "JFK." Oldman is enacting the scene during which Oswald shot Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit in Oak Cliff. For "JFK," Tippit was played by actor Price Carson. The photo was taken by Dallas resident Lovita Irby during filming on location in Dallas.

Object Details
Object title:

Photograph of actor Gary Oldman taken during filming of "JFK"

Date:

April 1991 - May 1991

Terms:

"JFK"

Movie

Photographs

Re-enactment

Oak Cliff

Stone, Oliver

Irby, Lovita

Oldman, Gary

Oswald, Lee Harvey

Tippit, J.D.

Dallas

Medium:

Paper, Photo

Dimensions:

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

Credit line:

Lovita Irby Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2005.017.0179

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