# Might Mercury 13 astronaut wannabe Jerrie Cobb have been the "Babushka Lady" at the JFK assassination? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 20, 2023, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mercury-13-astronaut-wannabe-jerrie-cobb-have-been-the-babushka-lady-at-the-jfk-assassination/993405 "2023-11-20T02:47:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mercury-13-astronaut-wannabe-jerrie-cobb-have-been-the-babushka-lady-at-the-jfk-assassination/993405/1 "2023-11-20T02:47:54Z")
Or even the second shooter? This woman thinks so. Yeah, I know, the book’s release almost coincides with the 60th anniversary of the assassination. I personally disagree, although stranger things have happened, I guess. That happened 3 months before I was born, and my dad, who died last month, always told me and my sibs not to believe the whole party line about it. He’d sure be interested in this story. > **[How a pioneering pilot’s exceptional life story offers clues to a second JFK...](https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/friend-secret-cia-agent-think-190000508.html)** > > When filmmaker Mary Haverstick researched pilot Jerrie Cobb, she had no idea she was about to be investigating the Kennedy assassination... ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mercury-13-astronaut-wannabe-jerrie-cobb-have-been-the-babushka-lady-at-the-jfk-assassination/993405/2 "2023-11-20T03:50:19Z")
I think the story Haverstick tells is patently ridiculous, that the CIA would not give someone named Jerrie Cobb a code name of June Cobb, that a CIA agent whose job was to recruit people to assassinate an African leader does not necessarily translate into the skills the Babushka Lady would need, and most of all, that someone who claims to be a filmmaker who knew her subject for 10 years and wrote a book about her hasn’t produced a single frame of film with an interview of the subject saying any of those things in her own words. Extraordinary claims must stand up to ordinary scrutiny. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mercury-13-astronaut-wannabe-jerrie-cobb-have-been-the-babushka-lady-at-the-jfk-assassination/993405/3 "2023-11-20T04:41:17Z")
Hasn’t it been reliably established there was no second shooter? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mercury-13-astronaut-wannabe-jerrie-cobb-have-been-the-babushka-lady-at-the-jfk-assassination/993405/4 "2023-11-20T04:47:43Z")
Yep. Thats pretty solid, but here is the SMOKING GUN!!! that will convince any doubters this tale is true _What Haverstick found out was that Cobb flew a light aircraft in and out of a private airport in Dallas on the day of the assassination,_ 😮 🤫 🤪 🙄 OMG, that settles it- a light plane!!! Gebusfreekenkeerist. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mercury-13-astronaut-wannabe-jerrie-cobb-have-been-the-babushka-lady-at-the-jfk-assassination/993405/5 "2023-11-20T05:03:58Z")
Yeah, the whole thing appears suspect to me. Ms. Cobb was a devout Christian who later worked as a missionary bush pilot in the Amazon, a job that was probably just as dangerous, if not more so, than going into space. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mercury-13-astronaut-wannabe-jerrie-cobb-have-been-the-babushka-lady-at-the-jfk-assassination/993405/6 "2023-11-20T12:39:57Z")
**Moderator Action** This is more speculation and opinion than factual, so let’s move this to IMHO (from FQ). ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mercury-13-astronaut-wannabe-jerrie-cobb-have-been-the-babushka-lady-at-the-jfk-assassination/993405/7 "2023-11-20T16:31:46Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > What Haverstick found out was that Cobb flew a light aircraft in and out of a private airport in Dallas on the day of the assassination Not only that, but do you know who else was in Dallas on that day? [Richard M. Nixon. AND JOAN CRAWFORD](https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2013/11/richard-nixon-november-22-1963/)!!! ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mercury-13-astronaut-wannabe-jerrie-cobb-have-been-the-babushka-lady-at-the-jfk-assassination/993405/8 "2023-11-20T16:35:38Z")
[“Babushka lady”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xckBwPdo1c)? What’s Kate Bush’s alibi (other than being 5 years old)? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mercury-13-astronaut-wannabe-jerrie-cobb-have-been-the-babushka-lady-at-the-jfk-assassination/993405/9 "2023-11-20T20:00:28Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Not only that, but do you know who else was in Dallas on that day? > > [Richard M. Nixon. AND JOAN CRAWFORD](https://www.nixonfoundation.org/2013/11/richard-nixon-november-22-1963/)!!! That settles it! psst, a secret known only to the Illuminated- “3+4= 7, and there are 7 seas” Shhhh, dont tell anyone. fnord. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mercury-13-astronaut-wannabe-jerrie-cobb-have-been-the-babushka-lady-at-the-jfk-assassination/993405/10 "2023-11-20T21:42:41Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > [“Babushka lady”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xckBwPdo1c)? What’s Kate Bush’s alibi (other than being 5 years old)? Most of the five-year-olds I’ve known were pretty terrifying to me. I wouldn’t eliminate Kate simply for her age alone. ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mercury-13-astronaut-wannabe-jerrie-cobb-have-been-the-babushka-lady-at-the-jfk-assassination/993405/11 "2023-11-20T21:45:26Z")
Actor/director Rob Reiner has a new podcast that claims to solve the JFK assassination. > **[iHeartPodcasts Partners with Legendary Filmmaker Rob Reiner and Award-Winning...](https://www.iheartmedia.com/press/iheartpodcasts-partners-legendary-filmmaker-rob-reiner-and-award-winning-journalist-soledad)** > > iHeartMedia is a leading global media and entertainment company specializing in radio, digital, mobile, social, live events and on-demand entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/might-mercury-13-astronaut-wannabe-jerrie-cobb-have-been-the-babushka-lady-at-the-jfk-assassination/993405/12 "2023-11-20T22:11:18Z")
She was absolutely everywhere: [![](https://s.abcnews.com/images/Entertainment/HT-mary-tyler-moore-01-as-170126_16x9_992.jpg?w=384) ](https://s.abcnews.com/images/Entertainment/HT-mary-tyler-moore-01-as-170126_16x9_992.jpg?w=384)