No, famed photographer Joe O'Donnell, who died August 9, didn't take the famous picture of JFK, Jr. saluting his father's casket.

O'Donnell's boast that he did was certainly a surprise to Stan Stearns:

Stan Stearns, a 72-year-old wedding photographer in Annapolis, Md., knows that picture well. He took it.

A photographer for United Press International, he kept a close eye that day on the first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, and her children.

“I’m watching her, and she bent down, whispered in his ear,” Mr. Stearns recalled in a recent interview. “The hand went up. Click — one exposure. That was it. That was the picture.”

Unfortunately for Stearns, he didn't take that picture, either. In fact, several photographers took pictures of the salute, not all of them attributed.

This photo shown here was actually taken by Dan Ferrell, then of The Daily News.

There were other famous photographs of which O'Donnell claimed authorship, and some claims were so absurd because the authorship of the photos was so well known.

Either an over-inflated ego or senility had to be responsible.