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From today's featured article  Photographic detail purportedly depicting the Badge Man The Badge Man is a figure said to be present within a photograph taken by Mary Moorman of the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, captured a fraction of a second after a bullet struck Kennedy's head. Such a person is not present in any other photographs of the assassination and was not seen by any witnesses. Much of the detail is obscured, some believe by a muzzle flash. The moniker derives from a bright spot on what is deemed the figure's chest, said to resemble a gleaming badge. The photograph was analyzed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, but no evidence of hidden figures was found. However, in 1983, Gary Mack—the curator of the Sixth Floor Museum—obtained a higher quality copy of the photograph. Upon enhancement, Mack noted what he believed to be the Badge Man in the shadowed background. Conspiracy theorists have suggested that this figure is a sniper or a man in police uniform, and believe it to be a second assassin, firing at Kennedy from the grassy knoll. (Full article...)

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