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

Here's another interesting thing that came out in the interview of Mary Moorman. The interviewer referred to something that Jean Hill said in her book, which is the claim that in taking her famous picture, Mary was trying to photograph her boyfriend JB Marshall. (Jean was apparently trying to protect the privacy of her boyfriend because his real name was BJ Martin.) But, Mary denied that. She said she had no such thought in her mind. She was just trying to shoot the Kennedys.

But, why did the interviewer even ask? What really motivated him? I think it was the Moorman photo.

I put up Hondo's version of it. He put an orange dot there right in the center. 

But, we have all been taking photographs all our lives, and we have the built-in habit that when we take a picture of someone, we point the camera directly at them. We center on them. Why would Mary Moorman who was standing on Elm Street essentially at right angle to the Kennedys point her camera anywhere but at them? They were her subject. It was all about them. Why would she not put them in the center of the photo? It was easy enough to do. The limo was going very slowly. At the time of the fatal head shot, the limo had either stopped or nearly stopped, as reported by many witnesses.  I should think she would have put them in the center from right to left and also in the center from the perspective of up/down. In other words, I should think that the Kennedys would be pretty darn close to that orange dot if Mary Moorman had taken the picture. 

But, she didn't take it, and this isn't a picture that anyone took with normal symmetry. It is not symmetrical. It is eccentric, taken on a diagonal. And that's why the Kennedys are not in the center of the photo. 

But, the interviewer, not knowing that, thought that perhaps it was off-center because Mary deliberately made the Kennedys off-center for the reason of wanting to capture the motorcycle cop, who was the boyfriend of Jean Hill. But, Mary said no, and she said it emphatically, that it was nowhere near her conscious thought.

The Moorman photo is an eccentric photo taken on a diagonal line of sight by someone who was facing the Kennedys at about 45 degrees. And that is what explains the eccentricity of the picture. It is also what proves that Mary Moorman did not take it.