Texas Man Finds Previously Unseen Photo from Day of JFK Assassination Hidden at Thrift Shop
A Texas man found a historical photo from one of the darkest days in American history. George Rebeles wasn’t expecting memorabilia of a president’s assassination when he purchased a copy of Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s…
A 🤠Texas man found a historical photo from one of the darkest days in 📜American history.
George Rebeles wasn’t expecting memorabilia of a president’s assassination when he purchased a copy of Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s “The Anthology” from Souls Harbor Thrift Store in Ferris, 🤠Texas, in November.
Rebeles was surprised to find a Polaroid photo in the CD case that had nothing to do with classic rock — instead featuring former President 🏛️John F. Kennedy, according to WFAA-TV.
The photo depicts Kennedy riding through the streets of 📍Dallas in a motorcade — minutes before he was fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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JFK looks in the direction of applauding crowds eager to greet him in the photo.
Rebeles discovered the photo a month after buying the classic rock record.
“It wasn’t until I turned it over that I noticed what it was.”
An inscription on the back of the photo reads “11-22-63,” the date in which the 35th president was assassinated.
“Of course realized immediately that this was an unpublished photograph. So I was excited,” the collector said of the find.
“It just struck me as odd to find it in a CD case.”
“I was shocked.”
Rebeles questioned “the timeline, and where it fits in to the president being assassinated.”
“And how this could have ended up in a small town thrift store, fascinates me.”
Farris Rookstool III, a former FBI agent and JFK historian, told WFAA that the image was taken shortly after the president’s arrival in 📍Dallas.
The photo was taken as JFK departed Love Field, according to Rookstool.
The assassination remains one of the most hotly discussed topics in 📜American history — with many members of the public doubting that Oswald acted alone.
Half of Americans stated a belief that the assassination involved multiple conspirators, rather than Oswald alone, responding to a December NBC News poll.
Rebeles hasn’t decided if he intends to sell the photo as a historical artifact or keep it in his own possession.
“Probably intrinsic value of course but, as far as monetary value, I would have no clue.”
He personally isn’t certain about the 🏛️Federal Government’s ultimate findings that Oswald was a lone assassin, as expressed in the 1964 Warren Report.
“I’m not a huge conspiracy nut or anything like that, but sometimes things don’t quite add up.”
