the babushka lady is a nickname for an unknown woman present during the 1963 assassination of president john f. kennedy who might have photographed the events that occurred in dallas' dealey plaza at the time president john f. kennedy was shot. her nickname arose from the headscarf she wore similar to scarves worn by elderly russian women (Ð±Ð°Ð±ÑÑÐºÐ°&nbsp;â babushka&nbsp;â means "grandmother" or "old woman" in russian). the babushka lady was seen to be holding a camera by eyewitnesses and was also seen in film accounts of the assassination.muchmore framezapruder frame 285 she was observed standing on the grass between elm and main streets and she can be seen in the zapruder film as well as in the films of orville nix, marie muchmore, and mark bell (44 seconds and 49 seconds into the bell film: even though the shooting had already taken place and most of her surrounding witnesses took cover, she can be seen still standing with the camera at her face). after the shooting, she crossed elm street and joined the crowd that went up the grassy knoll in search of a gunman. she is last seen in photographs walking east on elm street and neither she nor the film she may have taken have been positively identified. ==identity== the babushka lady never came forward. the police and the fbi did not find her, and the film shot from her position never turned up, despite a request by the fbi to local photo processors that they would be interested in any pictures or films of the assassination. ===beverly oliver=== in 1970, a woman named beverly oliver came forward and claimed to be the babushka lady. she had worked in 1963 as a singer and dancer at the colony club, a strip club that competed with jack ruby's carousel club next door. in 1994, she released a memoir entitled nightmare in dallas which purports to chronicle the events of the day of kennedy's assassination. oliver said that after the assassination, she was contacted at work by two men who she thought were "either fbi or secret service agents". according to oliver, the men told her that they wanted to develop her film and would return it to her within ten days, but they never returned the film.marrs, jim. crossfire: the plot that killed kennedy, (new york: carroll & graf, 1989), p. 36. isbn 0-88184-648-1turner, nigel. the men who killed kennedy, part 2, "the forces of d
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