Camera Lady

[Charles Collins]

For what it is worth, the Dallas Morning News Women’s News department did have a photographer named Doris Jacoby. Doris was at the Trade Mart when the assassination occurred and went to Parkland Hospital when she found out that JFK and JBC had been taken there. She relates her account in a book published by the Dallas Morning News titled “JFK Assassination, The Reporter’s Notes. There are photographs of both Doris and Mary Elizabeth Woodward in that book.

[Steve Barber]

Nice find! I would say the woman in the video looks very similar to Donaldson. If you notice, the chin and nose looks pretty much the same in both the photo and video. The photo was taken 5 years earlier, so her hair doesn't appear as short in the footage. If we could get a close up of a video still and compare it with the photo we could make a better identification.   

 This film must have been captured by two different cameras because there is also  black and white footage of this woman in the same position--unless this film is the black and white footage (it looks like color footage in this frame) and this woman is actually in a button down shirt with rolled up sleeves and blue jeans.  I don't know who took the film(s), nor can I find the footage, but it has appeared in many documentaries over the years.

[James Hackerott]

Denis Morrissette’s blog page “Unidentified Photographers, Cameramen and Media People in Dealey Plaza” section 6 shows work credited to Linda Zambanini identifying her as Elinor Sandhorn. If the ID is good she is in the area of the reflection pool at the time of the assassination.

Section 7 has the Altgens6 camerawoman as Anne Donaldson.

https://jfkassassinationfiles.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/photos-and-films/

[Steve Barber]

Denis Morrissette’s blog page “Unidentified Photographers, Cameramen and Media People in Dealey Plaza” section 6 shows work credited to Linda Zambanini identifying her as Elinor Sandhorn. If the ID is good she is in the area of the reflection pool at the time of the assassination.

Section 7 has the Altgens6 camerawoman as Anne Donaldson.

https://jfkassassinationfiles.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/photos-and-films/

Woops!  I was **WAY** wrong.  Sleeves aren't rolled up, and I cant see what type of clothing she was wearing below her waste.  My error and my apologies.  Thanks a bunch for sharing this.   

[Charles Collins]

In the book “JFK Assassination: The Reporters’ Notes”, Mary Elizabeth Woodward states that Ann Donaldson was her roommate at that point in time. I just find it very difficult to believe that if Donaldson had a camera and took any photos, that Woodward wouldn’t have said something about it in her account.

[James Hackerott]

Woops!  I was **WAY** wrong.  Sleeves aren't rolled up, and I cant see what type of clothing she was wearing below her waste.  My error and my apologies.  Thanks a bunch for sharing this.

Sure, and thanks for your Frontline story. That inspired me long before I typed “JFK” into a search engine 

[James Hackerott]

In the book “JFK Assassination: The Reporters’ Notes”, Mary Elizabeth Woodward states that Ann Donaldson was her roommate at that point in time. I just find it very difficult to believe that if Donaldson had a camera and took any photos, that Woodward wouldn’t have said something about it in her account.

I find that a little strange too. I wonder if any of the ancestry gurus could dig up something.