JFK Assassination Forum

Bell Frames showing Haygood standing next to his motorcycle.

It looks like the first frame is just after he picked his cycle up off the pavement. In the second, he appears to be turned to start charging up the grassy knoll.

You are assuming the turning of the heads is a reaction to hearing a gunshot and that they would turn their heads if they heard a gunshot.

If JFK and the others heard a loud firecracker /  backfire sound (or, in Connally's case, the sound of a high-powered rifle shot) behind them while travelling down Elm Street in "nut country" Dallas, would you expect them to continue looking in the direction they were looking before the sound and to perhaps start chatting about it, or would you expect them to, after the original shock, quickly turn their heads to try to figure out where the sound had come from and/or to see the reactions their spouses / colleagues?

When five of the six people in the limo do it nearly simultaneously, it's highly unlikely that it's just a coincidence.

   BUMP regarding TODD speculating that Officer Haygood could have, ".... just borrowed their radios". Officer Haygood gave WC Testimony that he made his 12:35 radio transmission from his own Motorcycle Radio that was parked on the (N) Elm St curb. This is one of the many Facts that prove, "That Ain't Haygood", with Officer Harkness on the Darnell Film.

Steve Barber was the guy responsible for the borrowed radio idea, not me.

The photo just shows Haygood standing in the crowd next to the Elm St curb. It doesn't prove anything about exactly when he got there, how long he'd been there, what he was doing at that moment, nor what he had been doing in the meanwhile.

Like most witnesses, I would probably get some things wrong and some things right. I'm guessing I would get more wrong than right.

Suppose you were in Dealey Plaza to watch the President’s motorcade and you heard three loud rifle shots each separated by about 5 seconds. You were then asked to give a statement a few hours later and asked what you recalled.
1. If you did not recall the spacing of the shots clearly in your memory would you mention it?
2. If you did recall the spacing of the shots and it was clear in your mind so that you mentioned it in your statement, would you think your statement was reliable?
 
 

    Officer Haygood's WC Testimony makes clear that he made his 12:35 radio transmission from HIS MOTORCYCLE at the Elm St curb. Please do the research before going off on another tangent that mandates my setting the record straight.

Let me say this again: 'Hackerott gives us "an estimation of the time as 12:36." You try to turn that into "12:35."' You tried to mislead everyone by conflating Hackerott's 12:36 conclusion with your own 12:35 OCDness. Also again, 12:36 doesn't present a problem with anything I've said.