One afternoon, I was eating lunch and surfin' the web when I came across the historic picture by photographer Bob Jackson of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald. Jackson's camera certainly caught that rare moment in time; the grey area between certainty and unreality. Jack Ruby was in a posture that spoke of conviction and drive and there was something in Oswald's face; a look of passion that's hard to duplicate. It struck me that he was certainly screamin' the blues, in fact, he looked to me like a young rock and roller beltin' out a serious tune. Uh, oh...the Photoshop bug bit me and, 40 minutes later, the picture below was born.
OSWALD ESSAY CONTEST INFO
Photo Permission, Bob Jackson, Copyright 1963
Illustration, George E. Mahlberg, Copyright 1996