Assassination 3D animation by Mark Tyler

[Mark Tyler]

Here is the latest release of Motorcade 63 (version 2.0):

https://www.marktyler.org/mc63.html

I added these photos:

Powell
Dillard 2
Dillard 3

The animation now has a few more interesting witnesses and their movements:

Billy Lovelady
Gloria Calvery
Joe Marshall Smith
Edgar Smith
Welcome Barnett
Carolyn Walther
James Powell
The Franzen family
Amos Euins
Howard Brennan

I think Joe Marshall Smith might be the dark shadowy figure at the back of the Bothun 5 photo as the timing and position seems to be a close match.




I slightly changed the route of the knoll runner and the black dog man, as Marilyn Sitzman said they were a couple who ran behind the pergola and were responsible for a bottle smashing onto the ground.  This is probably what Lee Bowers described as a "commotion", as the narrative and timeline matches perfectly.

While studying the testimony of the Secret Service agents I noticed that Sam Kinney started his siren in the seconds following the head shot when his car was in the heart of Dealey Plaza.  This was corroborated by other witnesses so I consider this to be a major challenge to the dictabelt evidence:

How could the microphone pick up gunshots but not a siren?  We know that the microphone picked up sirens 2 minutes later on Stemmons freeway, so why not in Dealey Plaza as well?

More detail of this work is in the handbook section 9.1.1:

https://www.marktyler.org/mc63/mc63_handbook.pdf

The audio from the dictabelt recordings has been added to the video along with some other sounds that the witnesses reported.  Back in 1963 every witness would have heard each of these noises in a slightly different way.  For example the siren would have been loud and dominant to those closest to Secret Service car.  This might explain why the Secret Service agents and James Altgens didn't hear the final shot whereas those by the TSBD heard "three well spaced reverberating shots".  The final gunshot would have been louder to them as it was closer, and the siren was further away so it was quieter.

I have updated the handbook regarding the timings of the shots (section 6).  I have concluded that while most witnesses say they heard three shots, they are not talking about the same three shots: some say they were equidistant; and some say they were bunched on top of each other.  In other words the "consensus" among witnesses regarding three shots is a numerical illusion which disappears upon close inspection.

Many thanks to the people who made suggestions for improvements, and also the researchers whose many decades of work I have used in the book and the video.

[Gerry Down]

I know its a ton of work, and kinda tricky, but could a similar timing video be done for the controversy surrounding Adams coming down the stairs?

[Mark Tyler]

I know its a ton of work, and kinda tricky, but could a similar timing video be done for the controversy surrounding Adams coming down the stairs?

This is a good point Gerry.  There are a lot of witnesses who gave testimony about their actions and movements in the minutes after the shooting.  Taken in isolation they are all somewhat tricky to reconcile, but putting them together in a 3D view of the TSBD it may be possible to work out what was going on, and who was where at what time.

It would be harder to be confident of the results because there are no films or photos, but I'm sure with enough time and effort somebody could make progress on this part of the case by having an animated real time reconstruction that connects all of the evidence.

[Michael Walton]

Mark, as always nice job on your work. I know media stuff is time consuming to make as I've done it for my entire career. But it'd be cool if you could put a circle in the building up by the window and it'd be LHO then kind of move him around like he puts the rifle in the hiding place then goes down the stairs. I know you can't do depth [meaning showing him going from the 6th to 2nd floor] but kind of make it look like he's going downstairs and then he [supposedly] meets up with the cop in the lunchroom.

[Mark Tyler]

Mark, as always nice job on your work. I know media stuff is time consuming to make as I've done it for my entire career. But it'd be cool if you could put a circle in the building up by the window and it'd be LHO then kind of move him around like he puts the rifle in the hiding place then goes down the stairs. I know you can't do depth [meaning showing him going from the 6th to 2nd floor] but kind of make it look like he's going downstairs and then he [supposedly] meets up with the cop in the lunchroom.

Indeed Michael, multimedia is very time consuming!  In the case of animating the inside of the TSBD I suspect a whole new animation would be needed, utilising some kind of semi transparent 3D projection so you could see the people moving around and walking up and down the stairs.

I saw a still drawing depiction of this in Gerald Posner's Case Closed book, but it's impossible to judge plausibility with just a still image.

[Gerry Down]

I suspect a whole new animation would be needed, utilising some kind of semi transparent 3D projection so you could see the people moving around and walking up and down the stairs.

Why not consider a 2D animation of the Tippit shooting as a good place to start (rather than a complex 3D animation of the inside of the TSBD). Dale Myers has some good 3D sketches on his website of where the different eyewitnesses were so you'd have a head start from that aspect of things.

[Mark Tyler]

Why not consider a 2D animation of the Tippit shooting as a good place to start (rather than a complex 3D animation of the inside of the TSBD). Dale Myers has some good 3D sketches on his website of where the different eyewitnesses were so you'd have a head start from that aspect of things.

I must confess I am not as knowledgeable about the Tippit crime scene as the Dealey Plaza crime scene.  Having said that, you are right, a recreation of the Tippit scene on top of a 2D map should make things easier to understand regarding the movements of the witnesses and the cars.

Has Dale Myers not done an animated reconstruction of the Tippit scene?