Shelley intercepted Calvery at the "island" about 10 seconds after final shot

[Tom Graves]

You do know that the WC did 3 trial runs with Officer Baker riding his motorcycle from Main to Houston and then entering the TSBD before he testified? This is how important it was to put Baker quickly inside the TSBD in order for him to eventually see Oswald through that vestibule door. And Baker had to know this, too. He's no dummy. I believe the recently released first half of the Original Darnell Film throws numerous previously accepted timelines into question. That original Darnell film opens with the camera cars at a dead stop as they were turning onto Elm, and one driver is standing outside the car. This tells us the Officer Baker/Truly being inside the TSBD in 30 seconds stuff is [XX]. This lengthy slowing/then stopping of the camera cars also impacts the accepted timelines of the Darnell and Couch films, which also impacts the timeline of Officer Smith's being filmed running down the Elm Street Extension. And why are we seeing all of these timeline/dominoes fall? Just my opinion, but I believe it is because Wiegman filmed the JFK limo going under the Triple Underpass. It took the JFK limo more time after the kill shot to travel down to the triple underpass than has been foisted on us. Which brings us to the limo stop or prolonged rolling stop/crawl.

Dear Comrade Storing,

You wrote, "I believe the recently released first half of the Original Darnell Film throws numerous previously accepted timelines into question. That original Darnell film opens with the camera cars at a dead stop as they were turning onto Elm Street, and one driver is standing outside the car."

Have you ever noticed how I almost always post the "links" to videos I refer to in my text?

Are you incapable of doing that?

-- Tom

Edit:

Regarding the "recently released" version of the Darnell film you must be talking about, the following is what Gerald Posner posted about it five months ago on Twitter:

Time for a dose of reality.

This 👇is the supposedly smoking gun video that @RepLuna said last night had "never been seen before" and "could blow open the entire JFK investigation."

Luna said she learned about it from Oliver Stone and said the video "shows Oswald near the vehicle [JFK's limo] when the assassination took place, which means he couldn't have been the shooter." And she told a credulous Jesse Watters, NBC had been "very, very much guarding this tape."

A small problem.

It is NOT a secret video that has never been seen. It is available for anyone to watch at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas (or on their YouTube channel). What Rep. Luna is referring to is a clip of a film taken by Jimmy Darnell, an NBC affiliate cameraman who had been riding in the "press camera cars" behind the motorcade. He, and three other cameramen had jumped out of their car after the shots and started filming about 30 seconds AFTER the assassination.

Darnell's film shows Dallas police officer Marrion Baker running to the front door of the Texas School Book Depository, and past the TSBD's supervisor, Roy Truly, both of whom would encounter Oswald in less than another 30 seconds, on the second floor. Oswald was on his way out of the building, having come down from the sixth floor after the shooting. Truly vouched for Oswald and Baker let him go.

Some conspiracy theorists think that a few seconds in the Darnell film shows a figure on the far-left side of the front of the Texas School Book Depository they believe is Oswald. The figure has been dubbed prayer man, some say because of the way he has his arms crossed in front of him, while others think the conjecture is the equivalent of a conspiracy Hail Mary prayer long shot.

For those not into the weeds on the JFK assassination, this is not the first time that a film or photo has been used to try and exonerate Oswald. For many years, conspiracy theorists contended that Oswald was visible in one of the pictures taken by James Altgens, an AP photographer at the scene. Oswald, they contended, was the fuzzy figure in a white t-shirt standing to the left entrance of the TSBD. That was in fact one of Oswald's coworkers, Billy Lovelady. Even AFTER Lovelady identified himself as the person in the photo, some conspiracy theorists refused to believe him.

Oliver Stone and others have now turned to the Darnell film and the person standing to the left of Lovelady. Maybe that is Oswald. It is not even clear from the fuzzy image if it is absolutely a white man. It could even be a light-colored black or Latin person. But to Stone and Luna and others, it is Oswald.

Thirteen of Oswald’s work colleagues were standing at the front steps of the Texas School Book Depository. They were there to watch the motorcade. Not one of them remembers seeing Oswald there.

That has not stopped the conspiracy theorists, who claim the clothing on the unidentified man looks like what Oswald wore when he was arrested after killing Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit. Ten other Texas School Book Depository employees wore shirts like the one on “prayer man.”

The entire exercise might as well be a Rorschach inkblot test. That is what happened before in the case, for instance, with a half-inch square portion of Mary Moorman’s badly faded Polaroid taken a split second after the assassination. Conspiracy theorists enhanced it and blew it up and thought they had found the image of the phantom second shooter on the Grassy Knoll, someone they dubbed “badgeman.” They claimed that greatly enlarged pixels identified a rifle and a Dallas police uniform. The enhanced photo only shows shadows and trees, no person, no shooter.

Now, Oliver Stone and others believe the only thing preventing an ironclad identification of Oswald in the Darnell film is that they do not have the original first-generation. The Sixth Floor Museum version is a second-generation print of the film that the Museum acquired as part of a personal collection in 2006.

No one is certain if a first-generation version exists, but the guess by Luna and Stone is that it must be somewhere in the long-lost archives at NBC. Not quite the same as NBC having, as Rep. Luna claimed, “very, very much guarding it.”

I hope that the Oversight Committee gets the original Darnell video. Many of us would like to see the clearest possible version of the frenetic scenes that played out in the minutes after the assassination. For those, however, who think it will be dispositive and exculpatory evidence that Oswald was hanging out at the front of the School Book Depository, good luck. That story might earn a headline in the National Enquirer or the Daily Mail. It should not be the ‘breaking news’ from the congresswoman leading the new investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy.


https://x.com/geraldposner/status/1905998079112745239

[Tom Graves]

I believe the recently released first half of the Original Darnell Film throws numerous previously accepted timelines into question. That Original Darnell Film opens with the Camera Cars atta Dead Stop as they were turning onto Elm, and one driver is standing outside the car. This tells us the Officer Baker/Truly being inside the TSBD in 30 second stuff is [XX]. This lengthy slowing/then stopping of the camera cars also impacts the accepted timelines of the Darnell and Couch Films, which also impacts the timeline of Officer Smith being filmed running down the Elm Street Extension.

Dear Comrade Storing,

At the very beginning of this "recently released" version of the Darnell clip, you do see a motorcycle parked to the right of the car, don't you, and you do see the white helmet of Officer Baker as he starts running towards the TSBD from the "island"?

You don't think he arrived at the curb on his motorcycle about 12 seconds after the final shot, parked his bike, looked around, and started running towards the TSBS about ten seconds later?

-- Tom