ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, December 17, 1995 TAG: 9512180087
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
James W. Altgens, a longtime Associated Press staff member known for his photograph of the anguished Jacqueline Kennedy - seconds after her husband's assassination - clambering onto the back of their car while a Secret Service agent moved to her aid, was found dead Tuesday in his Dallas home. He was 76.
Altgens, who was retired, and his wife, Clara, 73, both were found dead at the home, The Associated Press reported. The Dallas Morning News reported on Friday that relatives said the couple had been suffering from the flu but that the police were looking into the possibility that they had died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a defective furnace.
Altgens, known as "Ike," was photographing Kennedy's motorcade at Dealey Plaza, in downtown Dallas, on Nov. 22, 1963.
After taking photographs of the immediate aftermath of the assassination, he telephoned his news agency and was the first to report that the president had been hit by gunfire and gravely wounded.
- The New York Times
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