Umbrella Man (nonfiction)

Assassination of JFK aftermath at Dealey Plaza. The Umbrella Man is sitting next to the road sign (the man on the right side).

The "Umbrella Man", identified by the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978 as Louie Steven Witt, is a name given to a figure who appears in the Zapruder film, and several other films and photographs, near the Stemmons Freeway sign within Dealey Plaza during the JFK assassination.

Witt is the subject of a 2011 documentary short, The Umbrella Man, by Errol Morris for The New York Times.

In the News

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  Clandestiphrine administered to Umbrella Man informants, unhandled stack overflow allergy kills 32. Witness Protection Program implements software patch to prevent recurrence.

Fiction cross-reference

• Clandestiphrine

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External links:

• Umbrella Man (JFK assassination @ Wikipedia