Does Connally's wrist wound disprove the SBT?

[Andrew Mason]

I believe that Linda was trying to support her daddy’s claim. If she actually did remember being inline with a sign, I suggest that it was the Thornton sign.

That would put the car about a car length before - 

You asked for a frame showing the pointing. Sadly a lot of the enlarged crops of still frames from a movie film do seem like Rorschach blots. Especially if you aren’t looking at the right area of the image. Here is one of those frames I provided earlier with an outline of Linda pointing included:

So that white area in her “arm” just happens to match the white area behind her “arm”?

[Charles Collins]

That would put the car about a car length before - 

So that white area in her “arm” just happens to match the white area behind her “arm”?

That would put the car about a car length before

If that idea is what happened, then: it takes a little time for a thought to form in the brain. The limo was still moving in the meantime.



So that white area in her “arm” just happens to match the white area behind her “arm?

It is called overexposure. Here’s a photo that shows the concept. It’s the full moon rising as photographed through the branches of a dogwood tree. The moon appears to be part of the limb. When actuality the moon is about 240,000 miles behind the limb.




If you watch the moving image (as the movie film is designed to be displayed) you might be able to see that the white area appears to be some white pants moving in the crowd beyond Linda Willis. Typically, the blurry still frames images “magically” become a much clearer moving image when displayed as a movie.

[Andrew Mason]

That would put the car about a car length before

If that idea is what happened, then: it takes a little time for a thought to form in the brain. The limo was still moving in the meantime.

Or if she was correct that when the first shot sounded, JFK was passing the sightline between her and the Stemmons sign then it could be that the shot was a bit earlier than z195-z203.

So that white area in her “arm” just happens to match the white area behind her “arm?

It is called overexposure. Here’s a photo that shows the concept. It’s the full moon rising as photographed through the branches of a dogwood tree. The moon appears to be part of the limb. When actuality the moon is about 240,000 miles behind the limb.




If you watch the moving image (as the movie film is designed to be displayed) you might be able to see that the white area appears to be some white pants moving in the crowd beyond Linda Willis. Typically, the blurry still frames images “magically” become a much clearer moving image when displayed as a movie.

Its actually called "diffraction" and it occurs when light passes around a thin edge object.  It takes a bright light so that the interference pattern, which is constructive in the centre (i.e. behind the branch), also looks bright.   Your white pants lady theory does not provide the amount of light needed to create that effect.

I'll give you a B+ for creativity, though.

[Charles Collins]

Or if she was correct that when the first shot sounded, JFK was passing the sightline between her and the Stemmons sign then it could be that the shot was a bit earlier than z195-z203.
Its actually called "diffraction" and it occurs when light passes around a thin edge object.  It takes a bright light so that the interference pattern, which is constructive in the centre (i.e. behind the branch), also looks bright.   Your white pants lady theory does not provide the amount of light needed to create that effect.

I'll give you a B+ for creativity, though.

Your white pants lady theory does not provide the amount of light needed to create that effect.


Andrew, I have to disagree with you. The moon is reflected sunlight. So is the light being reflected off of the white clothing. Here’s another image cropped from a Zapruder frame a few frames after the one with Linda Willis pointing towards the TSBD. As we can see, there is enough bright light being reflected off of the clothing to cause an apparent starburst effect (lens flare or refraction or whatever you want to call it).

[Andrew Mason]

Your white pants lady theory does not provide the amount of light needed to create that effect.


Andrew, I have to disagree with you. The moon is reflected sunlight. So is the light being reflected off of the white clothing. Here’s another image cropped from a Zapruder frame a few frames after the one with Linda Willis pointing towards the TSBD. As we can see, there is enough bright light being reflected off of the clothing to cause an apparent starburst effect (lens flare or refraction or whatever you want to call it).

You appear to be using z174 above for comparison.  However, it is much brighter than your Rorschach image, which is around z166.  I have brightened z166 so you can make out the faint white background to Linda Willis' right side. z174 is much brighter than z166 so even if your theory was possible, it would not explain why the right arm would not cover that faint white area behind it if the arm actually extended out from the body:

[Charles Collins]

You appear to be using z174 above for comparison.  However, it is much brighter than your Rorschach image, which is around z166.  I have brightened z166 so you can make out the faint white background to Linda Willis' right side. z174 is much brighter than z166 so even if your theory was possible, it would not explain why the right arm would not cover that faint white area behind it if the arm actually extended out from the body:

Andrew, I selected that frame from another group of frames I had available on my iPad. I often post from my iPad for convenience and when I am away. I selected that particular frame only because it features a "starburst effect" for the white clothes in the background and illustrates just how relatively bright that the reflection of sunlight on those white clothes was. That particular frame does not depict Linda Willis pointing because she had already started lowering her right arm.

Here is a crop from frame Z169 that shows the effect I am comparing to the moon photo effect. This frame is from the "Cold Case" production. The "Cold Case" frames are in HD quality. The "Image of an Assassination" frames that you are apparently using are sadly not in HD (only DVD quality). In the Z169 crop below we can still see a faint image of Linda Willis' right arm despite the bright white reflection of the clothes beyond her right arm. I added an arrow that points to the area where Linda Willis' hand is located.





Again, a moving image shows what is happening much better than still frames. So, here again is a moving clip showing Linda Willis looking and pointing upwards towards the TSBD just after her little sister Rosemary Willis snaps her head towards the TSBD: