Mary Ann Moorman (née Boshart; born August 5, 1932) is an American woman who chanced to photograph US president John F. Kennedy a fraction of a second after he was fatally shot in the head in Dallas, Texas.
The Badge Man, whom conspiracy theorists claim to be one of Kennedy's assassins, is purportedly visible in another of her photographs taken that day.
[2] Moorman was standing on grass about 2 feet (61 cm) south of the south curb of Elm Street in Dealey Plaza, directly across from the grassy knoll and the North Pergola concrete structure that Abraham Zapruder and his assistant Marilyn Sitzman were standing on – during the assassination.
[3] Between Zapruder frames 315 and 316, Moorman took a Polaroid photograph, her fifth that day, showing the presidential limousine with the grassy knoll area in the background.
[7] That same year, she expressed her opinion on the assassination; she was convinced that Kennedy was killed as a result of a conspiracy.
On the grassy knoll, some have claimed to identify as many as four different human figures, while others dismiss these indistinct images as either trees or shadows.
She was called by the Warren Commission to testify, but due to a sprained ankle, she was unable to be questioned.