Photograph of Oliver Stone, Kevin Costner and Marina Oswald at dinner

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Photograph taken by Dallas resident Lovita Irby during the filming of the 1991 movie "JFK" in Dallas. The photograph shows six people sitting at a restaurant table, including director Oliver Stone at the head, his gaze downward. Just to the right of Stone sits actor Kevin Costner, who played New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison in the movie, and producer A. Kitman Ho. Across from Costner sits Marina Oswald, widow of alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The individuals sitting on either side of Oswald are unidentified.

Object Details

Object title:

Photograph of Oliver Stone, Kevin Costner and Marina Oswald at dinner

Date:

April 1991 - May 1991

Terms:

"JFK"

Photographs

Movie

Re-enactment

Stone, Oliver

Irby, Lovita

Costner, Kevin

Oswald, Marina

Ho, A. Kitman

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:

2005.017.0099

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

The obscured individual to the left of Marina Oswald Porter is likely her youngest daughter, Rachel. Researcher Jake Ingebrigtson brought our attention to a March 1995 interview with Ms. Oswald in Texas Monthly magazine in which she details her mother’s first meeting with director Oliver Stone. In the interview, she recalled, “I was visiting my mother in Dallas. She told me that there was going to be a movie made about the assassination and asked if I wanted to have lunch that afternoon with Oliver Stone and Kevin Costner—my mother didn’t even know who they were—and I was thinking to myself, ‘Oh, my gosh, I’m going to have lunch with Oliver Stone and Kevin Costner!’ So we meet them at a Chinese restaurant. It was so exciting, you know, me being a young woman and everything.” The smiling woman on Ms. Porter’s right side remains unidentified. – Stephen Fagin, Curator