Yep, it's official and I just need to admit it: I am simply too rational for the JFKA Follies.
1. It is pure happenstance that four other citizens and two TV stations didn't photograph the relevant part of the motorcade. What were the Three Stooges going to do - confiscate and alter any and all films? "Sounds like a plan, Curly!" say Larry and Moe.
2. Before any shots were fired, the motorcycle officers said the limo was moving so slowly they had difficulty keeping their cycles upright. Having ridden bikes since I was 16, including fully-dressed touring bikes, I can say you have to be moving extremely slowly before you have to start worrying about staying upright.
3. If the limo in fact slowed down, even to a near stop, SO WHAT? This would be an entirely natural initial reaction to what was occurring. Why would there be any need at all to cover this up, even to the extent of altering the Z film and all the risks that would entail? "Sounds like a plan, Moe!" say Curly and Larry.
4. The limo stopped "for a minute." I happened to be reading just last night an exceedingly scholarly work of theology by Dale C. Allison in which he addresses the use of phrases such as this in the Bible. When we say "wait a minure," or "hold on a minute," or "just a minute," do we EVER mean 60 seconds? No, it's just an idiom that isn't referring to the passage of time at all. Except in Conspiracy World, where this offhand remark means "Oh, my God, the limo stopped for a full minute!!!"
Doug Horne is nuts. Vince Palamara is nuts. That's the reality. With apologies to Larry Hancock (not nuts) for borrowing the phrase, I'm convinced there is a "Tipping Point" at which otherwise intelligent CTers go off the cliff into some Conspiracy La-La Land where they are now prepared to uncritically accept ANYTHING.