This is the interview Mary did on 11/22, and they cropped the start of it. After an introduction by Bill Lord, it goes to her, and she says, "picture. And I took the picture."
So, what did she say before "picture" that they cropped? Obviously, it must have been something that they didn't want us to hear. Very likely, it was her saying that she captured their faces in the picture.
Then, the next thing she said was that she took her picture at the instant of the first shot. She said:
"After I took the picture, the shots were still being fired. There
were 3 or 4 shots close together, and it must have been the first one that hit him because that is when I took the picture."
She said that her picture shows JFK slumping and Jackie leaning towards him.
But, she could not have been right about it being the first shot. I know very well that the first shot was the one that hit JFK in the back high on the hill which delivered the nerve agent. But, that shot was silent. It involved no combustion; rather, it was battery-operated. This is from Google AI:
AI Overview
The CIA "heart attack gun" developed in the 1960s, was designed to shoot a small, frozen dart coated in a potent shellfish toxin, intended to induce a fatal heart attack without leaving obvious traces. It operated silently, causing rapid death, designed to leave little to no trace of the poison during an autopsy.
It was NOT developed in the 1960s but in 1953. Charles Senseney said so to the Church Committee in 1975. And he was talking about the heart attack gun:
Mr. SMOTHERS. Is this a device that looks roughly like a .45-caliber pistol with a sight mount at the top?
Mr. SENSENEY. This was a follow-on. It was to replace the M-l projectile to go into the army stockpile. It did look like a .45.
But, even Google AI admitted that it operated silently. And in his testimony to the Church Committee, CIA Director William Colby said that the heart attack gun worked silently.
Church: Does this pistol fire the dart?
Colby: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman. The round
thing at the top is obviously the sight; the rest of it is what is practically a normal .45. However, it works by electricity. There is a battery in the handle, and it fires a small dart.
Church: So that when it fires, it fires silently?
Colby: Almost silently; yes.
So, Mary Moorman was not talking about that shot. And frankly, I think Mary captured JFK right before he was shot in the throat by Umbrella Man. She said her picture showed JFK slumping and Jackie leaning towards him. But, when JFK was shot in the throat, he had a panic reaction, raising his hands to his throat and mouth. It was not a reflex, but it was an instinctual panic reaction. He couldn't breathe! Mary's photo didn't capture that because she didn't describe it that way. So, I'm thinking that Mary's photo must have captured the instant BEFORE he was shot in the throat.
So, what she caught was him slumping and looking distressed from the effect of the back shot and Jackie turned and focused on him. It was probably very much like what we see in Zapruder 207 except without the smudge that they put over his face to hide his distressed look.
This is Mary's statement on 11/22/63, and it certainly tells us that the existing Moorman photo is not the photo she took.





