WFAA’s Film of the Motorcade Run to Parkland Hospital Stabilized

[Steve Barber]

Yep, the fun is in the challenge of figuring stuff like this out. Good job. If I understand your pins correctly, we appear to have oriented these items reasonably close in the stacked image from the WFAA film. My first attempt at locating Lingo Lumber in the stacked image was just an educated guess without any real attempt to line things up. You have located it where I thought it would be after I had looked at things closer and from many different angles. This has been a good exercise. I have a better feel for the big changes in what we see by changing the angle only slightly.

 Hi Guys,

  I just checked in to see the latest progress of this great thread.  You guys are awesome, Charles and James!  Now I can see how this is laid out!  Thanks so very much for all your hard work, and I know others watching this thread feel the same way.  However...there is one thing regarding my post of the aerial photo, and my addition of red arrows and such.

  Upon looking over everything, I discovered that I have the big, dark red arrow labeled wrong!  I posted the letters "RR Crossing"and am actually pointing to Stemmons Freeway, not the railroad crossing!  I have the arrow pointing to the wrong spot!  I'm truly sorry about this! Gargantuous mistake on my part.  I'm going to try to fix it and move the arrow to the proper spot. 

[Michael Walton]

Why is this considered a "great thread?" It's a pixelly, blurry 5-second clip taken from far, far away and proves absolutely nothing one way or the other. I'm constantly amazed on here of how people get into a lather about something that means nothing.

[Steve Barber]

Why is this considered a "great thread?" It's a pixelly, blurry 5-second clip taken from far, far away and proves absolutely nothing one way or the other. I'm constantly amazed on here of how people get into a lather about something that means nothing.

 For years and years, some of us who study the photographic evidence have never been able to see the motorcade "Going up the hill" in the WFAA-TV film that was broadcast live the day of the assassination, as it was narrated by WFAA-camera man Bert Shipp.  In fact, barely anything could be made out in the film due to horrendously bad quality video tape.

Over the past few years, due to technologyy, we have been able to get our hands on better quality copies of certain footage taken that tragic day. James' find finally allowed many of us to actually see where the motorcade was when this "5-second clip taken from far away" came to surface for James, who shared it with us. To you, it's nothing, to us, it's a great find, and allows us for the first time to see something we couldn't see before, that took place while the president was being taken to Parkland Hospital. 
 
 I'm not sure why this "amazes" you, but to each their own. It's a great thread because it's a discussion about a new find in film footage taken November 22, 1963. 

[Charles Collins]

Why is this considered a "great thread?" It's a pixelly, blurry 5-second clip taken from far, far away and proves absolutely nothing one way or the other. I'm constantly amazed on here of how people get into a lather about something that means nothing.

I agree with Steve Barber, it is about discovery. (No matter whether or not it answers any questions that you might consider critical.) Steve is the one who discovered the crosstalk in the DPD radio tape recordings and brought it to the attention of the world. So compliments from Steve about this thread are quite special in my book.

[James Hackerott]

Hi Guys,

  I just checked in to see the latest progress of this great thread.  You guys are awesome, Charles and James!  Now I can see how this is laid out!  Thanks so very much for all your hard work, and I know others watching this thread feel the same way.  However...there is one thing regarding my post of the aerial photo, and my addition of red arrows and such.

  Upon looking over everything, I discovered that I have the big, dark red arrow labeled wrong!  I posted the letters "RR Crossing"and am actually pointing to Stemmons Freeway, not the railroad crossing!  I have the arrow pointing to the wrong spot!  I'm truly sorry about this! Gargantuous mistake on my part.  I'm going to try to fix it and move the arrow to the proper spot.

Thank you Steve. Even if only one person gets some value from the work any effort on my part is very worth while.

[Louis Earl]

Steve thanks for reading my mind!  Wonderful photo.

[Louis Earl]

I was a teen in Dallas in 1963 and I'm very familiar with all the assassination landmarks. To me it's very enjoyable to play detective and try to figure out what is going on in these old photos.  Keep up with posts like this.