I made this graphic a few years ago illustrating how Linnie Mae was describing how Oswald was holding the bag, and if the bag was only 2 feet long then it wouldn't be almost touching the ground because Oswald isn't a gorilla!
Also another fun fact, is if you look at Oswald's bag being taken from the depository the bottom which is the open side is excessively crumpled as if someone was holding it like Linnie Mae described!
JohnM
Great graphics John. Linnie adjusts the length of the bag to 27 inches but she does not alter her memory of how LHO held it to fit the new size. You picture is what a person envisions if LHO is holding it with one hand but I don’t think that is not what she is describing. Linnie changes the length of the bag but does not change how she remembers him holding it. Even though she states the bag is 27 inches long now, she still is referencing LHO holding the bag as being 3 feet 6 inches long. I think he had his right hand grasping the barrel below the front sight because of how she described it, and then she is still is referring to his left hand holding the bottom or near it.
Linnie: “and the bottom, he carried it this way, you know,” If LHO is holding the bottom of the bag and it is 27 inches long and close to the ground he has to be bent over.
Mr Ball needed to get her to elaborate on how LHO was supporting it in more detail but he lets her just reference it the once. But once is enough to understand the bag was not 27 inches long.
