The Badge Man is a figure that is purportedly present within the Mary Moorman photograph of the assassination of United States president John F. Kennedy in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963. Conspiracy theorists have suggested that this figure is a sniper firing a weapon at the president from the grassy knoll. Although a reputed muzzle flash obscures much of the detail, the Badge Man has been described as a person wearing a police uniform—the moniker itself derives from a bright spot on the chest, which is said to resemble a gleaming badge.
The degraded original version of the Moorman photograph: the Badge Man is purportedly located behind the stockade fence at photo center. While the photo itself is 2.875 inches (73.0 mm) wide, the Badge Man is just 1⁄69 of an inch (0.37 mm).
Enlargement of the Badge Man from a UPI copy
Mary Moorman took the photo using a Polaroid Highlander 80A.
Jack White's enlargement of the Badge Man from the UPI copy
Mary Ann Moorman 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 is one of Kennedy's assassins, is purportedly visible in another of her photographs taken that day.
Mary Moorman in the Dallas County Sheriff's office on the evening of the assassination
The Polaroid photo taken by Mary Ann Moorman a fraction of a second after the fatal shot (detail)
