Amazing piece of work. However you have the pilot car entering Dealey Plaza way too late. It was running about 2 minutes 30 seconds ahead of JFKs limo. That means it turned into Dealey plaza off Main street at about 12:27.
Dallas Homicide detective, B.L Senkel, was riding in the rear of the pilot car. He said that as the pilot car turned off Main onto Houston street, he looked back and saw that the motorcade was 7 blocks behind them on about Akard street. This is a distance of half a mile. JFKs limo was travelling at a speed of between 12-15 miles per hour as he drove down Main Street. That means the pilot car was somewhere between 2 minutes and 2 minutes 30 seconds ahead of JFKs limo.
I like the way you have the pilot car stopping outside the TSBD. I can't find much documentary evidence that it actually did this, but it has been suggested that it did stop briefly there and the driver spoke to a policeman.
Hello Margaret. Thanks for taking the time to check the details in the animation. For more information about the work, have a look at the home page here:
https://www.marktyler.org/mc63.htmlThere are tables of numbers for: the photos; events; and the actor names. There is also a technical reference handbook which explains how I created the work, how I made my judgements, and what implications this all has for interpreting the events from 1963.
The documentation I used for the Pilot car stopping was the statement in the Warren Commission volume 21 page 579:
https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh21/pdf/WH21_Stevenson_Ex_5053.pdfThanks for mentioning the Akard Street comment, which I found in the Warren Commission volume 24 page 324:
https://www.history-matters.com/archive/jfk/wc/wcvols/wh24/pdf/WH24_CE_2003.pdfI positioned the Pilot car assuming it was about 30 seconds ahead of the advanced motorbikes. Here is the AMIPA film taken near the Market Street turn on Main Street:
At about 28 seconds into the video you can see something that could be lights flashing on and off just behind the crowd (possibly a motorbike), with the shadow of the Pilot car just passing the camera after the advance car turned off onto Market Street. Upon reflection this flashing probably isn't a bike, and is more likely to be something else. Therefore there does need to be a longer gap as you suggest between the pilot car and the motorbikes behind (about 30-60 secs more I would guess). I shall test this out in the coming days before making a final judgement on the exact gap.
Thanks for taking an interest in the project and helping nail the facts down!