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

The case for criminal alteration of the Nix film

 by Ralph C. Cinque

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Watching the Nix film in slow-motion with the frames marked has revealed a major deviation of criminal significance. It is frame 25, which according to Ken McDonald, corresponds to the exact instant of the Moorman photo. 

First, notice that Mary does not have her camera raised to her face. You don't see her arms raised, and you don't see a camera in front of her eye. So, how could she be taking a picture at that instant? From this angle, we would definitely see it if it were happening. 

Second, notice that Mary's coat has way too much breadth. It's huge. It's like the coat of Dracula.  

Look how huge she looks. Look how wide she looks. Isn't that convenient? Here she is in frame 15; much smaller. 

Let's put them together side by side, proportionately.

Look at the width of that thing on the right. Again, it is like the coat of Dracula. I don't care how much the wind was blowing; it could never get that big. And look at that extra patch of blackness at the very bottom. Her coat didn't go to the ground.

Now, let's go back to 25. Again: her arms aren't raised. They aren't going up. And you don't see any camera. 

What about BJ Martin in front of her? Why does his handlebar look so high? You would think that was his right arm going across way up high, but it can't be because his arms were going down, as per the design of the bike.   

The handlebars were low on the Dallas police motorcycles. 

Do you see how on the right, it looks like he's riding one of those Harleys with the long raised stem? You would think from looking at it, that it was built like this:

But, it wasn't. It was built like this, with his arms going down.  

So, this Nix frame below, with the falsely widened coat, is suggesting something and depicting something that was not there. Both his lone right arm perched high and Mary's voluminous wide coat are fake: 

Here's the clincher: Let's continue watching the film and see if that Easy Rider look goes away. I bet you it does. Here is frame 28.

Already, it's gone.  Here is frame 36.

 And here is frame 48. His arms are going down.

So, the question is: why does frame 25 below look the way it does? Is it an accidental optical illusion? I maintain that it was criminally altered to look like that to conform to what we see in the Moorman photo, which itself was altered.

To be clear, they are sending the false message here that the motorcycle had a very high, long stem, and that his arm was perched way up high, Easy Rider style. The idea is that if Mary had her camera raised at the time, which she didn't, that she would catch his right arm in a photo as we see it in the Moorman photo. And since we can only see one arm, and it looks distant, I assume the idea was that it was his right arm, just as we see in the Moorman photo. 

Notice that his arm doesn't even look that high in the Moorman photo. The above image is bogus, and so is the image below.

I realize that those who defend this crap are going to say that it is just an artifact, and they may attempt to explain what it is that produced that effect, innocently of course. They will insist that there was no foul play. But, there is no denying the fact that, at first glance, the impression is made that it is his right arm, right there for Mary to photograph- if only she was taking a picture at the time. 

Here is frame 26, which still has the Easy Rider look:

 Here is 27, where I'd say it's breaking up. 

And here is 28, where it is altogether gone.  

So, was this a flagrant attempt to Moormanize the Nix film? 

Let's look at it up-close:

It is definitely not his arm and not a raised stem, so what is it? What is causing the effect? If you think it is spontaneous and innocent, explain what it is. Then explain why her coat looks so big. It's like a black sail. 

Below is the Ken McDonald composite which shows the corresponding frames to the Moorman photo from the Nix, Zapruder and Muchmore films.  

First, Ken is completely wrong on Muchmore. That frame was after the Moorman photo because in the Moorman photo the motorcycle cops are not that advanced on the limo.

They are farther back. The way it appears, Martin is completely behind the limo. Now look at the Ken's composite again:

So, he just picked that frame to get the cops closer to Mary since it is supposed to be her picture. But, it was not Mary's picture; it was Babushka Lady's. And here is the real frame that corresponds to it from the Muchmore film.

But let's look at Ken's composite again, focusing on his Nix frame.

So, what do you think? Was there a deliberate effort made there to fabricate a lone right arm for Mary to photograph that would serve to match and authenticate the lone right arm that is seen in the Moorman photo? 

I think the arm was a deliberate fabrication, and I damn-well know the Dracula coat was a deliberate fabrication. Furthermore, it is absolutely certain that Mary could never have photographed his right arm alone as we see it in the Moorman photo, and I am going to Dealey Plaza to prove it.  Further again, it is absolutely certain that one must have one's camera raised in order to take a photograph, and Mary's isn't raised in Nix25.