Jfk assassination photos beverly oliver

Primary Sources

(1) John McAdams, Beverly Oliver: Babushka Babe? Or Bamboozling the Buffs? (2002)

One of the enigmatic figures in Dealey Plaza in the moments when John Kennedy was murdered was "The Babushka Lady," so named because she wore a scarf much like a Russian grandmother would wear.

She appears to be filming the motorcade, perhaps with an amateur movie camera, but she did not identify herself to law enforcement on the day of the assassination.

And in the days and weeks following the assassination, no person turned up claiming to be her, and no film shot from her position was discovered.

In 1970 a woman named Beverly Oliver came forward, and in interviews with researcher J.

Gary Shaw, claimed to have been the Babushka Lady. She was a dancer and singer (although apparently not a stripper) at the Colony Club, a strip joint that competed with Jack Ruby's Carousel Club. She claims to have spent considerable time in the Carousel Club, and