A Car, A Garden, And A Coupla Guys

[Charles Collins]

Tom,
The car was placed consistent with the Robert Hughes film of the TSBD doorway at about 12:40. I could be a few inches off, but not feet.

The “light-colored car,” if real, would be parked lengthwise in front of the Huge Gates. A car was not parked  there, but further east in the Martin film of the Euins/Harkness scene. There is no car parked there in the Wiegman film. No red tail light or car is there.  We are only seeing the Bonneville in Wiegman. Some of the “features” on the car in the gap are due to shadows from the Live Oak Tree.

James

Hi James, excellent work as always. Here’s a crop from a very clear photo by William Allen taken on 11/22/63 during the three tramps walk through Dealey Plaza. Royell claims the car in question didn’t move at all before the Allen photo was taken. I have drawn yellow arrows pointing at the rear bumper and taillight. You can line that up with the opening for the large gates and the pole for the highway numbers sign. I believe that Allen’s position was a few feet ENE of Tina Towner’s filming position on the SW corner of Elm & Houston streets. I hope this might help clarify the position of the car.

[Royell Storing]

Hi James, excellent work as always. Here’s a crop from a very clear photo by William Allen taken on 11/22/63 during the three tramps walk through Dealey Plaza. Royell claims the car in question didn’t move at all before the Allen photo was taken. I have drawn yellow arrows pointing at the rear bumper and taillight. You can line that up with the opening for the large gates and the pole for the highway numbers sign. I believe that Allen’s position was a few feet ENE of Tina Towner’s filming position on the SW corner of Elm & Houston streets. I hope this might help clarify the position of the car.

  Perfect! Look at the photo above. It CLEARLY displays there is a difference between the appearance of the "ground" on the Island vs the Elm St Extension surface street. The surface street on the above photo, matches perfectly with what we see behind Fedora Man on the Wiegman Film. The Wiegman Film shows no car parked alongside the Island. The Wiegman Film shows wide open surface street.