Bob Jackson

(Dallas, Texas, 1934 - )

North America, American

Bob Jackson’s now iconic image of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald won the Pulitzer Prize for news photography in 1964. Jackson worked as a staff photographer for the Dallas Times Herald in the 1960s and 1970s, and for the Colorado Springs Gazette from 1980 through his retirement in 1999. Although he traveled with the motorcade that transported John F. Kennedy from Love Field to Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1964, Jackson’s camera was empty of film when fatal shots rang out, killing the president and wounding Texas governor John Connally. The photographer was one of the few eyewitnesses to observe a rifle in the Texas Book Depository’s sixth floor window. Two days later, assigned to document the transfer of Lee Harvey Oswald to the county jail, Jackson photographed the alleged shooter’s assassination. He was subpoenaed to appear at Ruby’s trial, but never took the stand. Although best known for the Oswald image, Jackson’s work in Dallas before and after the presidential assassination documented the ways in which the city evolved due to intense media spotlight.

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