Robert H. Jackson (photographer)

In 1964, Jackson, then working for the Dallas Times Herald, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his image capturing the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby.

[5] On November 22, 1963, Jackson was assigned to cover President John F. Kennedy's arrival at Love Field and his motorcade through the city.

Jackson was sitting atop the back seat of the convertible as the motorcade approached Dealey Plaza.

[1] Two days later, Jackson was told to go to the police station to photograph the transfer of Oswald to the county jail.

Using his Nikon S3 35mm rangefinder camera with a strobe[6] and using Kodak Tri-X film,[7] Jackson photographed the shooting of Oswald by Jack Ruby in the Dallas police station garage.

The photo taken immediately as the shot rang out, shows Oswald impacted by the bullet, his mouth has already opened wide in an anguished expression and his manacled hands clutched at his abdomen, while Dallas police detective Jim Leavelle who was escorting Oswald, reacts.

[8] Jackson's colleague Jack Beers at The Dallas Morning News took an almost identical photo, but six-tenths of a second earlier, before Oswald screams in pain.