Video: Norman Similas And The Alleged Photograph Of The Second Assassin

[Duncan MacRae]

Norman Similas And The Alleged Photograph Of The Second Assassin

[John Corbett]

What kind of professional photographer would turn over a picture and not keep the negative or at least a copy of the photo.

[Martin Weidmann]

Just curious; wasn't there another photo of the 6th floor window which was damaged by burning at exactly the sniper's nest window?

[Denis Morissette]

Just curious; wasn't there another photo of the 6th floor window which was damaged by burning at exactly the sniper's nest window?

One of Tom Dillard's photos.

[Lance Payette]

One of Tom Dillard's photos.

I hadn't heard about this, but this post at the McAdams forum suggests the damage was done by HSCA consultant SRI International: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.assassination.jfk/c/as_cdRN9yrk.

Note: on the Dillard Photos:The HSCA was requested by the SRI
International to be allowed at a cost of $5,000.00 to enhance by means
of state of the ark equipment to find possible hidden information within
the negatives of the Dillard photos....of the TSBD...Dillard had custody
of his original negatives, but he co-operated and turned over twelve of
the negatives..four eventually being processed....SRI would not accept
liability and made this clear...in early 78 the study resulted in the
findings above.
Unfortunately ,the negatives, particularly frame 24,
"........became detached from the agitation apparatus and the gelatine
was abraded during the time it was freely agitated without
support"....in otherwords they ruined it.....they blamed it on a
malfunction of equipment ...they extended apologies and regrets to the
Committee and Dillard....
Robert Groden who was the HSCA independent consultant was asked to
comment ..on the damage...He found that negative # 8 also had been
damaged by a coating not originally on the negative...but now
evident...negative # 24 suffered also from this problem...( this is the
negative that showed the 6th floor window ) also part of this negative
appeared to have had it's emulsion rubbed off from the film base....To a
lay person, the negative looks terrible .....the emulsion on the
negative appears to have run down and melted into a pool of taffy like,
a pool below.... The left side of the sniper's double window in badly
affected, though the lower part of the snipers window escaped serious
damage ...the whole negative looked like it was worn and crackled...and
in otherwords the negative also had a tear (hole) in it......Dillard in
1979 received back his damaged goods , and copies of the SRI report, and
a letter and the Groden comments...Blakely lamely wrote Dillard that the
Committee was assured the process was safe and regretted the damage...."
These two historically signifigant frames had been irreversibly harmed
by experts."....(12)

12: "Pictures of the Pain" Richard B Trask, 1994:p: 452 (note 38) p:469