JFK Assassination Forum

In the Darnell clip, taken at a very similar angle and only seconds later, it appears that a police officer runs down the middle of the Elm Street Extension. Here are a couple of frames that seem to me to show that officer (blue arrow) is in front of the roofline (yellow arrow) of a car parked on the TSBD side of the street. As seems to be typical of these exercises there is a fly in the ointment (lady in light colored scarf) muddying up the view. But I think these two frames might show what I am submitting.








I believe that if James’ image were to be the case (the roofline we see is on a car on the island side of the Elm Street Extension) then the police officer would be partially hidden behind that roofline.




If anyone can do better with the Darnell clip frames, please do and show us the results.

  You're welcome, Charles.  Glad I could add some help.

 So, the car in the photo (which I have added a red arrow pointing to) is the car in question, and Royell is stating that it is parked against the northernmost curb directly in front of the TSBD-not against the curb that forms the peninsula where the traffic light, lamp post, and highway signs are situated?

   Steve - Thanks for posting this photo. The car we see on the Bottom (L),  parked on the TSBD side of the Elm St Extension, is the same car that is mistakenly being cited as a car parked alongside the Island. And this includes the (L) rear tail light of this same car being mistakenly "bulls-eye'd" as being attached to a car parked alongside the Island. This photo, along with the National Geographic "Manhunt" film footage showing this same car from the rear, makes clear what we are seeing on the Wiegman Film. We are seeing a parked car on the TSBD side of the Elm St Ext.

Dear Sonderführer Storing,

Do try to get your facts straight, won't you?

Holland says:

1) Oswald was standing in a semicrouch and awkwardly leaning forward for his first, missing-everything shot at hypothetical "Z-107," 1.5 seconds before Zapruder resumed filming at Z-133.

2) Oswald did not sit on a box while firing shots 2 and 3 but knelt behind the stack of boxes at the window.

3) Oswald took 11.25 seconds to fire all three shots and therefore had plenty of time to "reacquire his target" after kneeling down.

I think Holland is correct in saying the first shot was fired before Zapruder resumed filming, but I believe Oswald fired it a little bit later, at hypothetical "Z-124," instead, as indicated by Roselle's and Scearce's 2020 study on the voluntary / conscious reaction times of seven prime witnesses (including JFK, Jackie, JBC, and Nellie) to the unexpected sounds of the first shot.

Do try to get your facts straight in the future, won't you, Sonderführer Storing?

-- Tom