‘Camera gun’ theory links JFK death to lauded female aviator

A famous female aviator – acting undercover as a CIA agent – aimed a ‘camera-gun’ at John F. Kennedy’s ­motorcade before she fired the fatal shots, according to sensational claims in a new book.

Jerrie Cobb.

A famous female aviator – acting undercover as a CIA agent – aimed an ingenious weapon described as a “camera-gun” at US president John F. Kennedy’s ­motorcade on November 22, 1963, before she fired the fatal shots that killed him, according to sensational claims contained in a new book.

InA Woman I Know: female spies, double identities and a new story of the Kennedy assassination written by filmmaker turned researcher Mary Haverstick, the ­author posits that Lee Harvey Oswald did not assassinate JFK and unmasks Jerrie Cobb as having pulled the trigger in Dealey Plaza.

Cobb, who died in 2019 aged 88, was once a central figure in NASA’s female astronaut program and held numerous aviation records for speed, altitude and distance throughout the 1950s and 60s.

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But Haverstick writes that Cobb is actually the true identity of “Babushka Lady” – a mysterious figure who appears in photos and film taken on the plaza who stood slightly more than 10m from Kennedy when he was ­assassinated.

“Immediately after the fatal shot, bystanders around the Babushka dove to the ground and scampered behind her, distancing themselves from the curb (sic) … The Babushka moved very little, other than to replace her sunglasses and watch the scene unfold,” Haverstick writes.

Haverstick was first introduced to Cobb in 2009. “As a filmmaker,” she wrote, ‘I was captivated by her life story and wanted to bring it to the screen.”

By 2011, Cobb’s story began to unravel as Haverstick’s film research connected the aviator to series of undercover aliases and to a secret mission to spy on the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

The author also connected Cobb to William Harvey, the man alleged to have co-created the CIA’s covert assassination program. The book is based upon a series of interviews with Jerrie Cobb held over a decade, as well as documents and records, many of which are contained in the US National Archives, the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, as well as the JFK Assassination Records.

A Woman I Know is released globally today through Scribe Publications.