Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)United States. Warren Commission
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Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15)
United States. Warren Commission
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination; Oswald, Lee Harvey
For this reason it was necessary to use the Nix film of the head shot
and the Muchmore film of the head shot to establish this position in
the road.
The right-hand photograph represents frame 24 from the Nix film, and is
the frame that depicts the shot to the head. We used Mr. Nix's camera
and a print of this picture and stood in the previously determined
position of Mr. Nix when he took his photographs, and had them roll the
car down to a position so that the President's head was directly under
the point where Mr. Zapruder is standing on the projection.
Mr. SPECTER. You are describing the photograph on which side----
Mr. SHANEYFELT. On the---
Mr. SPECTER. Of the viewer.
Mr. SHANEYFELT. On the upper left-hand side.
Mr. McCLOY. I think you said right.
Mr. SHANEYFELT. The upper left-hand photograph is the photograph from
the--taken from the frame 24 of the Nix film.
The photograph on the right, upper right, is the photograph taken at
the reenactment from the position where Mr. Nix was standing. We then
proceeded over to the point that we had established as the position
of Mrs. Muchmore, and using frame 42, which is a frame in her film
depicting the shot to the head, and using the steps and their relation
to the President and the objects in the background in relation to the
President as shown in this lower left-hand photograph, which is the
Muchmore frame 42, we reestablished, we checked the position we had
placed the car in, based on the Nix photographs, and found that it
conformed and checked out as being in a closely accurate position.
This is the basis used for establishing the position of the car. After
we had established that, through the Nix and Muchmore films, we then
checked it against the Zapruder photograph, which is the second from
the top on the left of Commission Exhibit No. 902, frame 313, which
shows the explosion from the top of the President's head. Just to the
right of that second picture down from the right, is the photograph
made at the reenactment from Zapruder's position.
We know from studying the films that just two or three frames before
frame 313 we can see a little bit of yellow along the curb, and this
checks out because along this area of the photograph from the Zapruder
position of the reenactment is a yellow strip.
Mr. SPECTER. When you say this area you are referring to the yellow
area which appears on the left-hand curb immediately to the rear of the
simulated car?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. That is correct, and this, therefore, checks out this
as being a fairly accurate position for the car in frame 313.
This photograph then, the third down on the left, is a photograph
through the telescope of the rifle of the car positioned in frame 313.
Mr. McCLOY. Would you read off those dimensions from that?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. The dimensions from the surveyor on frame 313 of the
distance from the wound mark on the President's stand-in to station C
is 230.8 feet.
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