JFK Assassination Portraits: The Last Living Eyewitnesses Speak Out
by Kaspar deLine & Rob Waymen
Foreword by Oliver Stone
Introduction by J. Gary Shaw
square 8vo. pp. 198. b/w photo illustrations. index. hardcover. [Toronto: Nov. 22 63 Inc, 2022].
First Edition in hardcover.
New.
ISBN-13: 9780994009647
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A twelve-year project in the making. Kaspar deLine has been researching the JFK assassination for over 35 years, and the film JFK by Oliver Stone was the catalyst that started it. The quote from Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men,” was very powerful and changed his life. deLine has partnered with Rob Waymen, an award-winning portrait photographer, a colleague who has worked with on some of Canada’s leading publications, The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business Magazine and Saturday Night Magazine. They have traveled together numerous times to Dallas to produce this historical project.
With an introduction from Oliver Stone this historical work serves as a first-person witness account of what they saw, and what they believe, along with their reflections almost sixty years later, and the impact it had on their lives. Featuring striking full-page photographic portraits of 56 witnesses that saw or were involved in circumstances around the assassination, including Bill & Gayle Newman, who were about 12 feet away from JFK’s limousine when the president was hit in the head with the fatal shot. Mary Ann Moorman that took the famous Polaroid picture the instant JFK was struck in the head. James Tague who was struck on the cheek from a ricocheted bullet that hit a curb nearby. Dr. Robert McClelland who tried to save the President in the operating room at Parkland Hospital and saw the condition of JFK’s head injury. Pierce Allman, a newspaper reporter who witnessed the assassination and immediately ran up to the stairs in front of the TSBD. Tammi True and Joy Dale, Jack Ruby burlesque dancers. Spectators along the motorcade route. Homicide Detective James Leavelle who was hand-cuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement of the Dallas police station when Lee Oswald was shot and killed. Ernst Titovets, a friend from Minsk, USSR, when Lee Oswald defected, and Judyth Vary Baker, who was Lee Oswald’s lover in New Orleans months before he was shot in Dallas.
Besides the JFK Witness portfolio, the book contains 36 JFK assassination authors who have written and contributed to the investigation and research into trying to understand what happened and why.