Crease in SN box

[Walt Cakebread]

Telephoto view from sidewalk (Less perspective)

View from sixth floor level (Normal perspective)

As you go further away from an object, the object's perspective lines become less acute. (Right: Cloud reflection on windows disabled)

True ....but the object also become smaller.....   This picture looks like the view from about 50 feet above the street....( about 50 feet from the window.)

And I thank you for showing that the rifle is nearly horizontal ( it would have been if it had been resting on the Rolling Readers)  It could not have been declined to fire down onto Elm Street.

[Royell Storing]

View from sidewalk, showing rifle resting on Box A and aimed towards JFK at Z313.

          I am curious as to the view a shooter would have through the scope of a rifle resting on that box and Pointed Toward Houston St.

[Walt Cakebread]

          I am curious as to the view a shooter would have through the scope of a rifle resting on that box and Pointed Toward Houston St.

At what point on Houston??....

[Royell Storing]

At what point on Houston??....

       Any point on Houston that would permit a possible shot at the JFK Limo.

[Walt Cakebread]

       Any point on Houston that would permit a possible shot at the JFK Limo.

A sniper who was sitting on a box to the east rear of the stacked Rolling readers  could not have aimed the rifle down toward Houston street if he had the rifle resting on the Rolling Readers....because he would have been facing SW....and Houston street was SE of the window....

There were no shots fired from that window.....   The scene was staged to implicate Lee Oswald.   

[Walt Cakebread]

Hypothetical shot onto Houston Street. I suppose the rifle could be moved forward a few more inches\if the shooter found it necessary. The shooter could have to be couched or on one knee, not sitting. The bottom inset picture in the image above is not from street level.

Thank you for this good enlarged copy from the Hughes film.   The Hughes film was taken just seconds before the shooting and if there was a gunman on the sixth floor he should be visible in the above picture.  There appear to be two figures behind the fifth floor window but there is no rifle to be seen behind the sixth floor window. 

[Royell Storing]

Hypothetical shot onto Houston Street. I suppose the rifle could be moved forward a few more inches\if the shooter found it necessary. The shooter could have to be couched or on one knee, not sitting. The bottom inset picture in the image above is not from street level.

    Thanks for posting that visual aid. If the box leaning on the window sill was in that position when the JFK Limo passed by, it would serve No Purpose other than as a rifle rest. That box certainly is Not bracing the stack of boxes positioned behind it, as the box is not jammed between the stack of boxes and the window sill. A possible legit shooter in that window would also then mandate a Spotter. If this tandem were prepared to alternate between the roles of Shooter and Spotter, 1 shooter would then use that box on the window ledge as a rifle rest for a shot(s) down Houston St. If a shot or shots down Houston St. was nixed for some reason, then the Spotter for the Houston St shooter morphs into a shooter and uses the stacked boxes as his rifle rest for a shot(s) down Elm St. This possible 2 different shooters would most likely involve 2 different rifles. (1) Carcano + (1) Mauser.