Donald Willis
2024-02-04 19:18:16 UTC
Brennan superimposes what he saw on the 5th floor over the 6th floor, as seen in CE 477
I think that Howard Brennan was clearly conflating what he saw in different windows on, respectively, the 5th & 6th floors of the TSBD. Consider: In CE 477, he circles both the 1st & 2nd windows from the SE end on the 6th floor, his "A" representing the sniper here. These are the same two windows which he leaves empty on the floor below. The implication is that, after putting "A" on the 6th floor, he then had no one with whom to replace "A" on the 5th floor. But why would he seem to relocate the sniper at two windows? Because he saw a rifle at the SE end window on the 5th floor, then saw what he thought was the same man (only partially seen at best there) at the 2nd single window from the end, on the same floor, who "maybe paused for another second as though to assure hisself that he hit his mark", as Brennan put it. The Dillard photo(s), as well as the Powell slide, then, captured this moment with the man Brennan mistakenly thought was the sniper pausing, Bonnie Ray Williams. Brennan was later persuaded that he was mistaken both as to his identity of the sniper and the number of the floor, yet he retained the mistake of that second window in his diagramming of the 6th-floor "A". And then, necessarily, left both halves of the SE end double window on the 5th floor vacant.
dcw
I think that Howard Brennan was clearly conflating what he saw in different windows on, respectively, the 5th & 6th floors of the TSBD. Consider: In CE 477, he circles both the 1st & 2nd windows from the SE end on the 6th floor, his "A" representing the sniper here. These are the same two windows which he leaves empty on the floor below. The implication is that, after putting "A" on the 6th floor, he then had no one with whom to replace "A" on the 5th floor. But why would he seem to relocate the sniper at two windows? Because he saw a rifle at the SE end window on the 5th floor, then saw what he thought was the same man (only partially seen at best there) at the 2nd single window from the end, on the same floor, who "maybe paused for another second as though to assure hisself that he hit his mark", as Brennan put it. The Dillard photo(s), as well as the Powell slide, then, captured this moment with the man Brennan mistakenly thought was the sniper pausing, Bonnie Ray Williams. Brennan was later persuaded that he was mistaken both as to his identity of the sniper and the number of the floor, yet he retained the mistake of that second window in his diagramming of the 6th-floor "A". And then, necessarily, left both halves of the SE end double window on the 5th floor vacant.
dcw