Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

Let's return to the Moorman photo. Robin Unger has posted a statement by Mary Moorman in which she claimed that her photo remained within her camera and she went home with it that night.

That is misleading.  She went home with it briefly, but then they came and got it again.  It was indeed confiscated. This is what Spartacus Educational says about it, founded by the same guy who founded Education Forum:

Mary Moorman (later Mary Krahmer) lived in Dallas, Texas. On 22nd November, 1963, Mary Moorman and her friend, Jean Hill, watched the motorcade of President John F. Kennedy from the grassy knoll facing the Texas School Depository Building. Moorman, who was taking Polaroid pictures of the motorcade, were only a few feet away from President John F. Kennedy when he was shot. Hill and Moorman thought the shots had come from behind her on the grassy knoll and as soon as the firing stopped they ran towards the wooden fence in an attempt to find the gunman. However, they were detained by two secret service men. After searching the two women they confiscated the picture of the assassination.

She stated that as the President's car drove off she started to leave the grassy area and was stopped by a Mr. Featherstone, a newspaper man with the KRLD Radio and TV Station who questioned her concerning her observance of the incident.
Mrs. Moorman advises that the photograph she took showing the police motorcycles preceeding President Kennedy's car and also showing the Texas School Book Depository Building was given by her to Secret Service Agents John Joe Howlett and Bill Patterson shortly before 4:00 p.m. November 22, 1963. The second photograph taken at the time she heard the shots showed the President slumping sideways in the automobile. She furnished this photograph to Bureau Agents.


Now, read this from USA Today:

"The reporter (Jim Featherston) escorted Moorman to the pressroom in the courthouse where the photo was copied and shown on TV within two hours. Government officials started questioning her. She kept asking for her photograph.
Six hours after Kennedy's death, Moorman – photo in hand – was finally allowed to leave the courthouse and return to her suburban Dallas home. Six hours later, "we had a knock on the door." Government agents wanted her photo.
Weeks later, the photo was returned. This time, the image sported "a big thumbprint on it."

They definitely took, confiscated Mary Moorman's photo and held it for weeks before returning it to her. 

Now, let's go to Wikipedia. They correctly say the following:

Between Zapruder film frames Z-315 and 316, Moorman took a Polaroid photograph, her fifth that day, showing the presidential limousine with the grassy knoll area in the background.

That is correct that the Moorman photo was taken between Z 315/316, and I confirmed it myself. And note that the last shot was at Z313. But, Mary Moorman has said many times that she heard other shots after she took her picture. She said so in this interview, which is the most comprehensive interview of her:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X89bD5rDpBw


This is from Above Top Secret:

"What's fascinating about this is she claims to have "heard a sound" other than herself roughly at the same time she took the picture - this being the fatal head shot. She claims to have heard 2 more sounds after this which she thought were firecrackers - firecrackers being mistaken for previous shots by other people at this point." 

But, there were no firecrackers, and there were no other shots after the fatal head shot. So, if Mary heard shots after taking her picture (which she told me herself) then she must have taken her picture before the fatal head shot.

And everybody keeps posting this image of Mary Moorman taking her photo, but this was not the moment of the Moorman photo.

If Mary took the Moorman photo, it means that she refrained from taking the picture then and waited until they had passed her. 

But, if you study the films you realize that if Mary had waited until the limo was that far ahead of her, meaning west of her, that Clint Hill would have been in any picture she took. But, he's not. And, what it means, beyond a shadow of a doubt, is that Mary Moorman did not take the Moorman photo.  

For Mary to have taken the above photo, she would have had to wait until the Kennedys had passed and the motorcycle cops had passed her as well. She never would have done that. In fact, if anything, she would have taken her picture BEFORE the Kennedys reached her. Not AFTER but BEFORE. And the reason is that there was a better chance of capturing their faces if she took it before they got to her. What would you rather capture, someone's face or the back of their head? Why would she have waited this long? She wouldn't have. And she didn't.