The Bench

So, Morley is writing about this bench in Dealey Plaza

On p. 75 of Richard Trask’s great work on the photographic evidence in the JFK assassination, “Pictures of the Pain,” is this photo:

A young Black couple sat here, a man and a woman eating a lunch. They were never positively identified by local police or any other law enforcement official(s), nor by any of the several federal investigations. Researchers Casey Quinlan and Brian Edwards identified them as Evelyn and Arthur King at a JFK Lancer conference presentation in 2010. But, some people dispute their findings.

Abraham Zapruder’s secretary Marilyn Sitzman was standing behind Mr. Zapruder and holding onto him to steady him as he filmed the assassination. They were both on this concrete riser about three feet off the ground on the north grassy knoll. Sitzman remembered the bench and the young couple.

It is believed by some that the story of a Secret Service man being shot on the knoll, which was false by the way, grew out of the fact that one or both of these young Black people were drinking a red soda of some kind which had spilled onto the ground with their cheeseburgers which was mistaken for blood.

Unfortunately, not many witnesses in Dealey Plaza who were Black or Latino were asked about what they saw and heard. We can see many of them in the films and photos of Dealey Plaza but most are unidentified.

This photo is from page 493 of Pictures of the Pain.

As far as I know these two Black women holding onto each other and crying have been not identified.