Posted by Josh Rosenau on November 24, 2008 Via Edge of the West, we are reminded that today is the anniversary of Lee Harvey Oswald’s last dance, memorialized in this famous photograph:
At least, that’s what I learned in school. Kathy tells it differently, but she doesn’t explain why people claim Oswald and Ruby were acting in concert. This photograph does.
H/T PBS, and George Mahlberg, creator of Oswald/Ruby as a Rock Band, 1996. Adapted from original photograph by Bob Jackson, 1963.
Let’s not overlook the Dead Kennedys logo on the wall behind them. I believe this was created for the liner notes of one of their albums.
I maintain that this photo is a FAKE! Ruby is shown playing a Telecaster, but everyone knows he was a Strat man…
Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the National Center for Science Education. He is formerly a doctoral candidate at the University of Kansas, in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. When not battling creationists or modeling species ranges, he writes about developments in progressive politics and the sciences.
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