Sniper nest shadows

[Colin Crow]

I love it when a plan comes together, here's a time-lapse of Charles's SN shadows.



It's odd that anyone would think the shots came from the right hand window because the rifle rest boxes were setup for the left window and the right window was closed?



JohnM

John, both Mooney and Day allude to the idea that the scar on the box was indicative of the direction of the shots. I believe this was towards Houston and that because they were not aware of the true direction of the shots at the time, until about 3.30 that was assumed to be the shooting direction. Later changed by 90 degrees towards the underpass.

PS other factors that might have suggested the wrong direction initially was that Mooney entered from the right side and the position of the shells.

[Charles Collins]

Shadow analysis….LOL

From an interesting article on sundials on Wikipedia:

The earliest household clocks known, from the archaeological finds, are the shadow clocks (1500 BCE) in ancient Babylonian astronomy. Ancient analemmatic sundials of the same era (about 1500 BCE) and their prototype have been discovered on the territory of modern Russia.

Designers of the Taipei 101, the first record-setting skyscraper of the 21st century, brought the ancient tradition forward. The tower, tallest in the world when it opened in Taiwan in 2004, stands over half a kilometer in height. The design of an adjoining park uses the tower as the style for a huge horizontal sundial.

[Louis Earl]

Go back to the first page of this thread and see the photo posted at 1:09:29.  We have a view of the sniper's nest bottom windows both left and right side (from our POV).  We can see through the right pane all the way down and see some people on the street below.  OTOH the left pane is completely blacked out.   Why is that?

[James Hackerott]

I ran the sun from 1pm to 3pm and the sun strike on the east wall looks about right and agrees with your 3D work around 2:20pm. However, my sim does not pick up the lower sun/shadow on the straight pipe during this time, if that is what we are actually seeing in the CE502/508 photo.

[Charles Collins]

I ran the sun from 1pm to 3pm and the sun strike on the east wall looks about right and agrees with your 3D work around 2:20pm. However, my sim does not pick up the lower sun/shadow on the straight pipe during this time, if that is what we are actually seeing in the CE502/508 photo.

Excellent work (as usual) James. It might be that (in your sim) the boxes that are stacked in front of the sniper’s window are blocking the sunlight from shining on the pipe. If so, that’s an indication that Studebaker had already processed them for fingerprints, and moved them in that process, before this photo was taken. Just a thought…

[Bill Chapman]

Excellent work (as usual) James. It might be that (in your sim) the boxes that are stacked in front of the sniper’s window are blocking the sunlight from shining on the pipe. If so, that’s an indication that Studebaker had already processed them for fingerprints, and moved them in that process, before this photo was taken. Just a thought…

Now watch Iacoletti pop up and desperately exclaim 'yeah, but how does that prove that Oswald shot anybody?

[John Iacoletti]

Why would a decision to frame Oswald necessarily have to be made before the assassination?