During the motorcade, large-and-tall, dark-blue-blouse-wearing / dark-blue-headscarf-wearing / plaid-skirt-wearing Gloria Calvery was standing shoulder-to-shoulder with her three headscarf-wearing South-West Publishing Company colleagues (from left to right in Zapruder: Karen Westbrook, Karan Hicks, Carol Reed, Gloria Calvery) only about 40 yards from the "island" that's across the street from the TSBD's front steps.
If you need "proof" of this, go to the so-called JFK Assassination Debate - Education Forum website and read the articles that I and/or Sandy Larsen posted on Calvery and on self-described American Indian Stella Mae Jacob (whom certain JFKA heavyweights confused with Calvery in the Zapruder film eons ago.)
We can see Calvery and her dressed-all-in-white (including white headscarf) colleague, Hicks, on the steps in the Couch-Darnell clip 25-30 seconds after the final shot. We can even see a part of Calvery's plaid shirt in one or two of the frames.
In his 11/22/63 affidavit to the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department (24H226), William Shelley said, “The President’s car was about halfway from Houston Street to the Triple Underpass when I heard what sounded like three shots. I couldn’t tell where they came from. I ran across the street to the corner of the park [i.e., the "island"] and ran into a girl crying and she said the President had been shot. The girl’s name is Gloria Calvery,” and in his 4/7/64 Warren Commission testimony (6H327), Shelley said, "Gloria Calvery from South-Western Publishing Company ran back up there crying and said, "The President has been shot," and Billy Lovelady and myself took off."
In his 4/7/64 Warren Commission testimony (6H336), Billy Lovelady said, "It didn't occur to me at first what had happened until this Gloria came running up to us and told us the President had been shot."
Interestingly, in the same Couch-Darnell clip we can see DPD motorcycle officer Marion Baker running towards the TSBD steps, Shelley and Lovelady walking/running down Elm Street Extension towards the railway yard / parking lot, and Calvery's other colleague, black-skirt-and-white-blouse-wearing Carol Reed, running past Shelley and Lovelady while bookin' it to the TSBD.
(Pat Speer speculates that Lovelady and Shelley sped up right after Reed passed them because she confirmed to them that JFK had been shot.)
Question:
Were Calvery and Hicks able to run to the "island" quickly enough to not only inform Shelley (and Lovelady?) there that JFK had been shot, but to give them 15-20 seconds to get as far down Elm Street Extension as we see them in Couch-Darnell?
My answer:
Having run the 40-yard dash in 4.8 seconds in high school (not bad for a big clodhopper like me), I say "Yes, they were."
Bottom line:
If Vicki Adams and /or Sandra Styles saw Shelley and /or Lovelady on the TSBD's first floor when they arrived there from the fourth floor, it must have been after Shelley and Lovelady had returned to the TSBD from the railway yard / parking lot (where they said they'd stayed for a minute-and-a-half, IIRC).
Just to inject a bit of honesty into this thread.
Shelley's affidavit and his WC testimony completely contradict each other.
The sequence of events described in his affidavit is as follows:
1] On front steps when he hears shots
2] Heads to the concrete spur (on his own) where he meets Gloria.
3] Returns to the TSBD
4] Re-enters the building
The sequence of events described in his WC testimony is as follows:
1] On front steps when he hears shots
2] Waits on steps for about 3 minutes before Gloria arrives at steps
3] Both he and Lovelady then head over to the concrete spur.
4] He turns and sees Baker and Truly still outside the building.
5] Heads down Elm Street extension to the railroad yard, hangs around there for a while, re-enters building through west door (none of which is mentioned in his affidavit).
The main problem for young Thomas is Lovelady.
In his WC testimony Lovelady heads across to the spur AFTER interacting with Gloria on the steps (in his affidavit he never even leaves the steps before re-entering the building).
It is impossible for the two figures on Elm Street to be Shelley and Lovelady if this is the case.
There is simply no time as Gloria had just arrived at the steps in Darnell.
There is no way around this for young Thomas.
However, if we accept the affidavits of Shelley and Lovelady, and that Lovelady was still on the steps when Gloria came up and told him about the shooting, it is clear that Darnell is showing the moment Gloria arrives at the steps. The man she is talking to on the steps is Lovelady (who is stood in exactly the same position on the steps he was as the motorcade passed by).
There is nothing contradicting this identification.
