You believe the JFK Limo was 7 seconds behind those 3 Lead Motorcycles?
Storing,
How many seconds do
you think (sic) the limo was behind those three motorcycles?
For your information, there were seven groupings of police motorcycles in the motorcade. In order of appearance they were:
1. ADVANCE MOTORCYCLES (Bellah, McBride and Garrick; see below)
2. LEAD MOTORCYCLES (Grey, Brewer, Freeman, Lumpkin and Ellis)
3. PRESIDENTIAL MOTORCYCLES (Martin, Hargis, Cheney, Jackson)
4. FORWARD MID MOTORCADE MOTORCYCLES (McLain, Baker)
5. MID MOTORCADE MOTORCYCLES (Courson, Haygood)
6. REAR MID MOTORCADE MOTORCYCLES (Smart, Dale)
7. REAR POLICE MOTORCYCLE (Philips, Davenport)
Regarding the three motorcycles that can be seen turning onto Elm Street at the beginning of the Zapruder film, this is what Penn Jones, Jr., wrote:
"Three 2-wheel motorcycle officers, Sergeant S. Q. Bellah (2219 Wilbur St., Dallas), J. B. Garrick, (1011 East Hobson St, Dallas) and G. C. McBride (9019 Anaconda Drive, Pleasant Grove), were riding as advance escort three or four blocks ahead of the motorcade. Two of them, Garrick and McBride, were scheduled to wait somewhere in the vicinity of the triple underpass for the motorcade to get ahead of them onto Stemmons in order that they could fall in behind and prevent traffic from the rear from overtaking the motorcade."
Zapruder filmed those three motorcycles as they turned onto Elm Street and passed by him, and then, realizing that there was a gap in the motorcade behind them, switched off his camera in order to save film and kept it turned off for seven seconds as he watched the group of four LEAD MOTORCYCLES (comprised of Officers Grey, Brewer, Freeman and Ellis)
and the LEAD CAR (containing Curry, Lawson, Decker and Sorrels) turn onto Elm Street and pass by him.
Then, when he
finally saw the limo turn onto Elm Street, straighten out, and start heading straight towards him, Zapruder turned his camera back on and resumed filming at what we call Z-133.
EDIT: Stike the above two sentences sentence and replace them with Storing-friendly this:
"Zapruder was filming the intersection of Houston Street and Elm Street as the three "Advance" (i.e., not the four "Lead") motorcycles turned onto Elm Street, as they travelled towards him down Elm Street, and as one of them -- the one closest to the other side of the street -- apparently began to pass by him, and then, in order to save precious film, he turned his gosh-darned camera off for seven seconds (gasp . . . thereby NOT filming the four Lead Motorcycles or the one Lead Car as they turned onto Elm Street and travelled down it towards him and PASSED BY HIM) until he saw, with his very own eyes, the limo coming straight towards him down Elm Street, and he turned his camera back on and resumed filming."
D'oh!