Scott Enyart's Kennedy Photos Vanish

In June 1968, a 15-year-old student photographer named Jamie Scott Enyart photographed U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles and continued taking pictures after Kennedy was shot. The LAPD confiscated Enyart's film as evidence, returned only about 20 prints, and later informed him that they may have destroyed the missing photographs. Enyart filed a $2 million lawsuit, and officials eventually produced a proof sheet from negatives they claimed were his, but he disputed their authenticity because the film stock differed from what he said he had used. Before the negatives reached the court in January 1996, a courier reported that the briefcase containing them had been stolen from his rental car, and a jury later awarded Enyart $450,600 after finding the city negligent.

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