File:Altgens mary ferrell.jpg

Summary

This photograph by Associated Press photographer Ike Altgens captures President Kennedy's limousine as it proceeds down Elm Street in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Altgen testified that he took it after the first shot and before any subsequent shots were fired. President Kennedy (his face blocked by the limousine's rearview mirror) has been shot, and his clenched left fist is raised in front of his throat. Mrs. Kennedy's gloved hand is on his arm. Governor Connally, seated in front of the President and turning to his right to look at him, has also been shot. In the front seat are two Secret Service agents. At the top right, an agent standing on the running board of the followup car looks back toward the Texas School Book Depository. In the background is the entrance to the Depository. The photo is significantly cropped here, showing only the left third of the original; note that this gives misleading impressions of where the photographer was standing and in what directions the spectators were looking.

Source

The Mary Ferrell Foundation ( www.maryferrell.org ); Photographer: Ike Altgens

Fair Use for John F. Kennedy assassination

Though the picture is originally copyright, I User:JDG believe it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It is a copy of a photograph released by the Associated Press for dissemination in accompaniment of a major news story;
2. It is one of the most widely disseminated and reproduced photographs of a news event in US and global history;
3. No free or public domain images have been located for this purpose; and
4. Reproduction of the image is not believed to limit the copyright owners' rights in any way.

The photograph has not been manually or digitally altered in any way, except for digital cropping and upsampling with a high quality algorithm, and subsequent scaling to thumbnail size to follow non-free content policies.

Licensing

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