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DescriptionMoorman photo of JFK assassination.jpg
Polaroid photograph of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, taken an estimated one-sixth of a second after the fatal head shot. (Friday, November 22, 1963, Elm Street, Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas)
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