Post by Saintly OswaldPost by Saintly OswaldWilson is in the Powell. You can see his hands at the window. At least, I can. In fact, simply by the position of his hands, I can tell that he is looking west down Elm, where the president had just been shot.
Wilson is in the Powell. You can see his hands at the window. At
least, I can.
Would you mind posting a link to the photo in ehich you can see
Wilsons hands?
Post by Saintly OswaldPost by Walthttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ph4ptCxt6VA/UMtzipXCNUI/AAAAAAAAAk...
This is a composite I put together. Powell is on the left and Dillard is on the right. I copied the guy from the Powell window and put him next to himself at the Dillard window to illustrate how similarly-positioned they are in each photo. Yet, his friend visible in the Dillard is not in the Powell.
Post by Saintly OswaldThe Dillard and Powell photos seem to have been taken at nearly the same time, according the photographers' independent accounts and according to some details in the photos. But there are differences in the photos, most importantly, probably, the boxes in the sniper's nest. The difference in the boxes in the two pictures is too great to be explained by camera angle and distance. I think the Powell photo is probably the good one and the Dillard is fake, because the Dillard boxes match the official pictures of the sniper's nest. Since they wouldn't fake it to be different, the Powell is probably genuine. There are other differences involving people, but people can move quickly. Those boxes would need some time. Dillard was an "official" photographer. He was supposed to be there and would have been on the conspiracy's photographer list. Powell just happened to come on his own, and then afterwards, by his account, went around with the police because he has some kind of intelligence credentials. That might make him seem suspicious, but I think that probably is what kept him under the radar of the conspirators. They didn't get to his film in time to change the boxes to the way they wanted them. It might also imply other things, since a couple of people are visible in the Dillard who aren't visible in the Powell.
Now you're displaying a glimmer of intelligence. You're absolutely
right... The man in both photos is Bonnie Ray Williams. He was there
at that window BEFORE Shorty Norman or Junior Jarman arrived. James
Powell took his photo when BR Williams was there by himself.... A few
minutes later Tom Dillard snapped a very similar photo BUT at the time
Dillard took his photo Shorty Norman had joined BR Williams behind
that fifth floor window. Incidentally.....There are several other
people behind various windows of the TSBD who are NOT visible in
Powells photo but they are visible in Dillard's photo. When you read
the affidavits of those people you'll find that they aren't seen in
Powells photo because they hadn't got into the position behind the
various windows yet whem Powell too his photo but they had arrived at
their positions behind those windows when Tom Dillard took his photo.
I had hoped that you could stay focused on a subject long enough to
learn some facts......
One person who isn't seen in James Powell's photo is Stephen Wilson.
Wilson said that he did go to his office window
in the southeast corner of the 2nd floor of the TSBD until he heard
the motorcade on the street beneath his window. He had just had heart
surgery a couple of weeks earlier and didn't want to put any strain on
his heart, so he remained seated at his desk away from the window
until the motorcade arrived. Then he got up from behind his desk and
went to the window just as JFK's lincoln was turning onto Elm Street
from Houston Street. I few seconds later he heard the first shot.
Wilson said that he remained there behind his second floor office
window for a long time ( about an hour?) after the shooting.
The two photos (Powell & Dillard) of the TSBD corroborate Wilson.
He's NOT visible in James Powell's photo because he was still seated
behind his desk when Powell snapped the shutter of his camera. He IS
visible in Tom Dillard's photo because he had just got up from his
desk and went to the window moments before Dillard snapped the shutter
of his camera. If Powell had snapped the camera shutter 30 seconds
after Dillard snapped his camera's shutter Powell's photo would show
Stephen Wilson in his office window. This is just one person who
appears in Dillards photo but not Powell's photo who had a similar
story to tell. In addition to their stories there is scienticically
verifiable evidence that Intelligence agent James Powell took his
photo BEFORE the motorcade arrived and Tom Dillard took his photo
DURING the shooting.
This is exactly what I was trying to tell you!..... The authorities
lied and claimed that Dillard took his photo first and then Powell
took his photo about thirty seconds later. They lied....Poweel took
his photo BEFORE the shooting....and Dillard took his DURING the
shooting.
Pictures of the Facade
by
Walt Cakebread
The James Powell photo has been an enigma for many researchers
since it first
appeared in Gary Shaw's book Cover up in 1976. According to Warren
Commission
Document CD 354 FBI agent George T. Binney interviewed Army
Intelligence agent
James W. Powell, just a little over a month after the murder of
President
Kennedy. During that interview, on 1 /3 / 64 they discussed a photo
of the
TSBD that Powell had snapped on the afternoon of the killing. Powell
said
that, he was about a half a block east of the intersection of Houston
and Elm
when he heard the shots. He ran to the corner and noticed people
pointing
toward the TSBD, so he raised his camera to his eye and snapped a
picture that
turned out to be quite similar to a photo taken by Tom Dillard of the
Dallas
Morning News.
The date of the interview establishes that the FBI knew about
the photo very
early in the "investigation", but they kept the photo suppressed for
thirteen
years. It wasn't until Gary Shaw obtained a copy of it through the
Freedom Of
Information Act that the photo was finally made public. The fact that
the FBI
had suppressed the photo for so long lead me to suspect that it must
hold some
very valuable information.
Powell claimed that he happened to be on the scene because he
merely wanted to
see the President and get some pictures. In examining the
circumstances
surrounding the photo, I found it very odd that an Army intelligence
agent who
purportedly was a mere spectator, near the scene of the coup d'etat,
would be
on the south side of Elm street, a half a block east of the
intersection of
Houston and Elm, at a location that placed him on the north side of
the County
Records Building, and in an extremely poor position to take a picture
of the
President. From that location he could not have seen the approaching
Motorcade
and would only have caught a fleeting glimpse of the back of the
President, as
President's car made the sharp left turn onto Elm from Houston.
In examining the photo I found evidence that demonstrated that
it had been
taken before the motorcade arrived. But that didn't seem to make any
sense, I
could not understand why a photo that had been snapped shortly before
the
Motorcade arrived would be suppressed for thirteen years, and then
displayed as
a photo that had been taken about thirty seconds after the Dillard
photo.
One of the first differences I found was; there was a Jet
aircraft vapor trail
across the sky in the Dillard Photo but there isn't one in the Powell
photo. (
The contrail is clearly visible in Dillard exhibit "B" in Volume XIX,
but it
does not appear in any of the reprints of Dillard's wide angle shot.
The
contrail across the sky is one of the reasons that the someone on the
HSCA
ruined the Dillard negatives. )
If the Powell photo was taken only thirty seconds after Dillard's
photo, the
con-trail should still be visible, because con-trails don't dissipate
in thirty
seconds.
The next discrepancy I found was in the difference in the
width of the
vertical sunlit strip on the west edge of the sixth floor window. It
appears
wider in the Powell photo than in the Dillard photo. It should appear
narrower,
because the angle from the TSBD to Powell's camera is about 32 less
than the
angle to Dillard's camera. ( The Powell angle is more acute ) If both
photos
were shot with only a 30 second interval between them the sunlit strip
should
be slightly narrower in the Powell photo, though thirty seconds in
time would
not create a noticeable difference in the width, but the difference in
camera
angles should make the strip appear narrower to Powell's camera, and
yet the
strip is wider. The only explanation for the wider sunlit strip is;
the
picture was taken several minutes earlier than the Dillard photo.
I had studied and measured the shadows being cast on the face
of the
TSBD, and knew that the Powell photo was taken before the Dillard
photo. Though
I was convinced that the Powell photo was taken earlier than the
Dillard photo,
I could not understand why he would take a picture of a nondescript
old
building, when there was so much other interesting activity in the
area. Less
than 200 feet away an ambulance was picking up a man who had had an
epileptic
seizure and there were many other things that would capture the
interest of a
spectator with a camera.
Harry Livingstone, and Robert Groden, provided the answer in
their book High
Treason. In the photo section of High Treason, they printed a blurry
blow up of
a portion of the Powell photo. The portion focuses on the S.E. corner
window of
the sixth floor of the TSBD. The blow up shows a rifle barrel
protruding from
the open window. This bit of information provided the answer for the
question;
why an Army Intelligence officer would take a picture of an old
building, just
minutes before the arrival of the President's motorcade.
An ambulance was picking up a epileptic seizure victim, and
the Motorcycle
Vanguard of the Motorcade was approaching the intersection of Houston
and Main,
the air was filled with the excitement of the moment. Most of the
spectators
attentions were focused on the ambulance with it's flashing red
lights, but a
few spectators noticed the rifle protruding from the TSBD window.
Arnold and
Barbara Rowland, Howard Brennan, Amos Euins and Mrs Walthers saw the
rifle
protruding from the window, but in the confusion of the kaleidoscope
of events
they never really had time to digest the information and establish a
time of
event sequence. Howard Brennan said he saw the rifle protruding from
the window
at the time he heard the shots, and he dived to his right off the wall
to
shield himself from the gunman. He and Euins may have even originally
said
that they saw the rifle before the arrival of the motorcade, but in
reporting
what he saw there was a subtle but significant change made to make it
appear
that they said they saw the rifle at the time of the shooting. They
could not
change the words that had been put in their mouths, and the
authorities said
that they knew that Oswald fired from the sixth floor window, so what
difference did it make if their observations were mis-quoted.
The "experts" have told us that the Powell photo was taken
about 30 seconds
after the Dillard photo, which also shows a similar view of the front
of the
Texas School Book Depository. While studying, and comparing the
shadows being
cast on the face of the building in both photos,I became convinced
that the
Powell photo was snapped several minutes before the Dillard photo, and
not 30
seconds afterwards. I knew it would be difficult to present my
finding
because, when comparing the shadows of the two photos, the difference
is
difficult to discern, ( The shadows are difficult to examine and
measure, the
width of the vertical Sun lit strip, beside the window provides an
easier to
see indicator) and many researchers simply will not accept anything
that
clashes with something that the "experts " have decreed.
The picture in High Treason made it clear that the photo was
supposed to
provide proof that Oswald had fired his rifle from the window during
the coup
d'etat. Since it was taken just minutes before the Motorcade arrived,
if it had
been the only picture of the TSBD at the time of the shooting, it
would have
been nearly impossible for anyone other than an "expert" to discern
that it was
taken at about 12:25. The conspirators failed to take into account
that
another Photographer might snap a nearly identical picture during the
shooting
which refuted the rifle protruding from the window. When the Dillard
photo was
published they knew they could not publish the Powell photo, because
the many
differences between the two photos would raise too many difficult
questions and
cause unwanted attention to be focused on the facade, so they
attempted to hide
it.
In point of fact, the Powell photo has raised many questions,
and caused
conflict among researchers since it's release. The sunlight on the
boxes in
the window and the difference in camera angles make it appear that the
boxes
are arranged differently in the two photos. Indeed it is entirely
possible that
the "gunman"changed the configuration shown in the Powell picture when
he
bumped the stack of three Rolling Readers boxes when he was pulling
the rifle
back into cramped quarters of the"Sniper's Nest"after Powell took his
picture.
(An accidental bump could have been easily moved the boxes, they
weighed less
than ten pounds)
Thanks to the recorded testimony of Miss Doris Burns on pages
398-399 in
Volume VI of Hearings we now have additional proof that the James
Powell's
photo was taken several minutes before Tom Dillard 's wide angle
photo, (
labeled Dillard Exhibit "B" in Hearings Volume XIX) and not 30 seconds
after
the shots as the "experts" have lead us to believe. Doris Burns said
that she
was in the third floor office of Macmillan Co., where she worked, when
she
heard on the radio, that the President's Motorcade was turning onto
Houston
from Main, since the windows in her office faced west she would not be
able to
see the parade from her office. She decided to walk down the hall to
the Office
of Allyn & Bacon to see the President pass by.
She testified: I listened to the radio, and by that time they
said that he was
on Main and turning at Houston or main by the courthouse, so since he
was that
close, thought , well, I guess I will go look out the window. I
didn't care
enough to go downstairs, but I thought I will go look out the
window. So I
thought I would have plenty of time, if he was just coming around Main
Street,
that I could still get around there, so I went around to American Book
Co.,
which is the office closest to us that had a window ...
