Babushka Lady

Uncommon card · No. 131937

The Babushka Lady is an unidentified woman present during the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy who is speculated to have photographed or filmed the events that occurred in Dallas' Dealey Plaza at the time President Kennedy was shot. Her nickname arose from the US Army headscarf she wore, which was similar to scarves worn by elderly Russian women. Babushka (Russian: бабушка) literally means "grandmother" or "old woman" in Russian. The Babushka Lady was seen to be holding a camera by eyewitnesses and was also seen in film accounts of the assassination. Dressed in a tan or light-brown knee-length overcoat, a headscarf tied under her chin, and possibly sunglasses, she stood on the grass between Elm and Main streets, holding a camera to her face. Her calm demeanor stood in stark contrast to the panic of the surrounding crowd. She is visible in the Zapruder film, as well as in the films of Orville Nix, Marie Muchmore, and Mark Bell, 44 minutes and 47 seconds into the Bell film...

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