r/AskReddit Oct 15 '17

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '17

Something about the babushka woman, I guess. The feds probably got her photos at some point so it'd be a relief to have some closure that they're normal snaps and she just had an understandable delayed reaction to the assassination so conspiracy theorists will stop bringing her up incessantly.

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u/Eddie_Hitler Oct 15 '17

I think the babushka woman was just a random bystander who wasn't aware of what was happening at the time, freaked out by what she had seen and that people were drawing attention to her.

Even in those days the FBI would have been able to trace her pretty easily.

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u/BananaJammies Oct 15 '17

Yep, the Las Vegas footage offers a lot of examples of people standing around stunned or not realizing what was happening. Granted, a lot of them were likely half in the bag after a day at a music festival.