JFK Assassination Forum

   You are Not describing the new Darnell Film snippet. Darnell is not standing near the TSBD when he films this snippet. He is standing well inside the railroad yard, close to Harkness, the No Glove Cop, and Buddy Walthers.  Please get yourself up-to-speed and then get back to me.

Frankly, I got in an hurry adding the sketched yellow line to James Hackerott’s image and inadvertently shortchanged the eastern most part of the “hook” of the island by 2 or 3 feet. It actually extends a little further east than my sketch shows which was already described as “rough outline”. Here’s the shortchanged sketch again and two images from Wiegman’s film one with and one without the added yellow outline.












As we can see in the above two Weigman film images, the actual easternmost point of the island “hook” lines up with the second brick column east of the gated opening. I was not far enough east with my initial rough sketch.

RS:  Have you examined the recently uncovered Darnell Film snippet?

Yes. In it, you see that Darnell is standing south and west of the depository when he's filming the crowd on the Elm Street extension. When he does so, you can see a street sign on the S side of the ESX right in front of one of the oak trees that line Elm. That's why the black line locates his position.


RS: The "No Glove Cop" should be on the other side of the dirt road.

No. There is a string of bollards running between the motorcycle cop and Harkness. You see the bollards when the cop walks past them. There wouldn't be a line of bollards placed across a dirt road. You'd also have us believe that there's a car parked in the middle of the dirt road.


RS: Officer Harkness  was across from him on that same dirt road

Also no, and for the same reasons.

Seriously, I worded it that way on purpose even though I know it isn’t exactly proper. Most of the time I use an iPad which has a relatively small touchscreen. That doesn’t lend itself to very precise measurements or graphics. Also, most of the time I am only trying to demonstrate a concept without being precise. So, if anyone wants to nitpick the details, I usually have already pointed out the less than precise nature.

I like my wording a little more better…