The photograph taken by AP photographer, James Altgens at the
equivalent of Zapruder frame, 255, provides us with an excellent,
objective means to timestamp many critical witness recollections
related to the timing of the shots.
This works because a number of witnesses who are visible in the
photograph, described hearing two gunshots after events that we can
see, had not yet happened when the picture was taken. Here are some
examples.
1. SA Hickey said he was looking to his left when he heard the first of
three shots. He said he then turned to his right, partially stood up,
and looked directly to the rear. He taid he then turned back to the
front, just in time to hear two shots, one of them striking the
President.
But at Z255, we can see that Hickey is still turned, fully facing the
rear. He is yet to turn to look at the President and is yet to hear
those two shots.
2. SA Warren Taylor said he heard one shot, and shortly afterward,
stepped out of the car. He said just as his foot hit the pavement , he
heard two more shots.
But at Z255, we can easily see that although the door is wide open, he
has not yet taken that step. He has yet to do so and is yet to hear
those two shots.
3. Hwy Patrolman Milton Wright, the driver of the mayor's car said he
heard two shots after turning off of Houston onto Elm and then
traveling about 30 feet.
In the Altgens photo, the mayor's car, which is next in line after the
car Taylor was in, is nowhere to be seen. It has yet to make that turn,
and Wright is yet to hear those two shots.
4. SA Glen Bennett said he was looking at the crowd to his right when
he heard heard one shot, and then turned frontward to see the President
just in time to hear a gunshot, which he (mistakenly) believed struck
Kennedy's back. He said the fatal head shot then followed
"immediately".
But in blowups of the Altgens photo, we can see that Bennett is *still*
turned to his right as he said he was before those final shots, and as
we can see him in earlier photos. He will turn to the front later, and
then hear those two shots which he thought struck the President's back
and head.
Of course, these are only a few of the witnesses whom we can timestamp
through the photos and films. For example, every nonvictim in the
Presidential limousine said he turned to examine either the President
or Gov. Connally, and *then* heard multiple shots or in Jackie's case,
"terrible noises". In each case, we can see that those turns were not
carried out until the Z250's or later.
Combined with the overwhelming majority of witnesses all throughout DP
who said the final shots were bunched closely together, these witnesses
form a very solid consensus proving in a multitude of different ways,
that the final shots were bunched closely together.
And finally, we can pinpoint at least one of the final shots, in three
different ways.
1. Nobel prize winning physicist, Dr. Luis Alvarez's determination that
there was a loud noise that startled Abraham Zapruder at frame Z285
(Alvarez guessed that a siren may have been the cause).
2. Statements by Charles Brehm, corroborated by four witnesses standing
near him, that a shot was fired just as the President passed directly
in front of him and was just 15 feet away. This is *exactly*
where Kennedy was, relative to Brehm at Z285.
3. Beginning 1/3 of a second after Z285, every nonvictim in the
limousine either ducked, dropping his/her head by 30 or more degrees,
and/or spun rapidly around, all beginning in the same 1/6th of a
single second. The reactions were not only in perfect unison, but were
extremely rapid.
1.5 seconds later, a nearly perfect shot struck President Kennedy in
the back of the heard.
Tests by experts for both the HSCA and FBI determined that a minimum of
2.25 seconds was required to reload and aim the weapon.
Additional tests, employing expert riflemen from the Wash. DC police
force, firing through only the iron sights of the rifle, at larger
targets, 100 feet closer than Kennedy was at Z312, further confirmed
this point.
There was at least one other sniper at work that day. There was, with
no doubt whatsoever, a conspiracy to murder this President.
Bob Harris
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