Which answer accurately describes the nickname given to the historical ‘Babushka Lady’?
The ‘Babushka Lady’ is an unknown woman present during the 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy who might have photographed the events that occurred in Dallas’s Daley Plaza at the time Kennedy was shot. Her nickname arose from the headscarf she wore, which was similar to scarves worn by elderly Russian women. The word ‘babushka literally means ‘grandmother’ or ‘old woman’ in Russian.
The ‘Babushka Lady’ was seen holding a camera by eyewitnesses and was also seen in film accounts of the assassination. She was observed standing on the grassy knoll between Elm and Main Streets and visible in the famous Zapruder film as well as in films taken by other individuals.
The Zapruder film is a silent 8mm color motion picture sequence shot by Abraham Zapruder with a home-movie camera, as the President’s motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. Unexpectedly, it ended up capturing the President's assassination.
In 1970, a woman named Beverly Oliver told conspiracy researcher Gary Shaw that she was the ‘Babushka Lady’. She told him she turned the undeveloped film over to two men who identified themselves to her as Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents. She received no receipt from the FBI agents who told her that they would return the film to her within 10 days. She did not follow up with an inquiry.
Neither Oliver nor the film she may have taken have ever been positively identified. Her face was obscured by her own camera.
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