Badge Man is the name given to a photographic image that some researchers into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy argue is possible evidence of an unidentified shooter on the "grassy knoll" in Dealy Plaza, in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.
The image in question is part of a Polaroid photograph taken by Mary Moorman as President Kennedy's motorcade drove through Dealey Plaza, when shots were fired and Kennedy sustained a fatal head wound.
The "Badge Man" photo sparked the conspiracy theory that three Dallas police officers killed Kennedy instead of Oswald. However, skeptics have argued that the "Badge Man" image is not of a man, but sunlight reflected from a soda bottle; and furthermore that the alleged Badge Man shooter would have been in an impossible position to fire a weapon at the motorcade.
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