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

This whole thing about finding out that Mary Moorman didn't take the Moorman photo happened by accident. I wasn't looking for it. 

What I was looking for was to find out exactly when Mary Moorman took her famous photograph. And the reason I was looking for that is because I came across something by the late Vincent Bugliosi in which he said that all the Parkland doctors and nurses must be WRONG because you can see JFK's intact head in the Moorman photo, and since it was taken AFTER the fatal head shot, it means that the back of his head was NOT blown out.  

Now: I never doubted that the back of JFK's head was blown out. I never thought for one thing that all these Parkland doctors and nurses could be wrong:

So, the only question that went through my head was:

Was it that the Moorman photo was taken BEFORE the fatal head shot and that's why we don't see the rear blowout, OR was it that the Moorman photo was altered afterwards, just as the Altgens photo was altered?

That's what I was trying to find out. I didn't have the remotest thought in my head that Mary Moorman didn't take the Moorman photo. 

So, I was on a diligent task to find out exactly when the Moorman photo was taken, whether it was taken before or after the fatal head shot. I started by asking Mary, and I was startled with her reply, that she took it simultaneous with the first shot that she heard. 

This is what she said in a personal communication to me:

“At the very instant I heard the first shot, I was snapping the photo. One (shot) with the camera to my face, then 2 more, bam, bam.”

So then, I started looking at the images. What I saw in the Zapruder film was alarming because Mary seems to be disassociated from the action in the street, where she is not even pointing her camera at the Kennedys. At first she is.  She had her camera ready to shoot in the very first frame in which we see her in the Zapruder film. Here she is in Z-293.

Do all agree that it looks like she is taking their picture there?

Z-298 is another real sharp one:

She's taking their picture, right? Do we have to argue about this?

After that is when it gets weird because the limo keeps going, but she keeps her camera up, but it's like she's frozen in time. I attribute this to the alterations done to the Zapruder film in which they removed frames in order to hide the extreme slowing of the limo. 

Will all agree that she seems to be pointing her camera straight ahead and not at the Kennedys who have passed her?

And it continues like that. Here is Z-309. She isn't pointing the camera at them at all. 

In 310, she is still disassociated.

According to experts, the foreground portion was separated from the background portion of the film, and then the foreground portion was shortened. Frames were removed.  They were seeking to remove the slowing of the vehicle. And that put the foreground out of syn with the background. And that's why Mary's orientation seems off.  When photographing the Kennedys, she surely was turned towards them, and she would appear so in the unaltered movie. Instead, she looks like she is ignoring the Kennedys and shooting someone on the sidewalk directly across from her. 

Now, that is it. That is the last clear frame of Mary in the Z film. After that, she is blurred, and it's hard to tell what she is doing. But, Z-310 was theoretically just 1/6 second before the fatal head shot, and she doesn't even have her camera pointed at the Kennedys.

So, because of what they did to the Zapruder film, we have to put it aside. It was deliberately discombobulated. 

Let's look at Mary Moorman in the Muchmore film.

I don't have a frame number for this, but look how crisp and clear Mary's camera is. She's got it up ready to shoot. Right? Of course, it was long before the Moorman photo was taken.

Again, we can see Mary's camera, and JFK and Jackie look mighty close to how they are positioned in the Moorman photo. Yet, Mary could not have snapped her picture then because look how far away the motorcycle cops are from her? They and their bikes haven't even reached her yet, and yet, they have got to be captured in the Moorman photo. So, we still have to wait. We have to go on to find Mary's moment. Here's what follows:

Mary still can't take her picture because the motorcycles have yet to get ahead of her, but look: Clint Hill is already on the move. That's him on the right. But that isn't any part of the Moorman photo. The Moorman photo was taken before Clint Hill made his move. 

Finally, the motorcycle cops get ahead of Mary so that they can be included in her picture. Now she can snap. But, we'd be seeing Clint Hill in the center of the action of the Moorman photo if Mary had snapped her camera then.  

The motorcycle cops had to be ahead of Mary to be included in her picture, yet there is no sign of Clint Hill in her picture. 

So, it doesn't work, and there is no way to make it work. It's like trying to force a square peg into a round hole. By the time the motorcycle cops get ahead of Mary in the Muchmore film, Clint Hill has already reached the back of the limo, and that is too late to be the Moorman photo. 

Again: we don't see Clint Hill in the Moorman photo.

What this means is that the Moorman photo had to have come earlier. It was taken by the Babushka Lady. Mary Moorman could not have taken it. At the time she was directly across from the Kennedys. I'll put her initials where Mary Moorman was at the time of the Moorman photo. 

In other words, this below is when the Moorman photo was taken.

You can see Mary Moorman partially on the far left. That was her, and that is where she was when Babushka Lady took the Moorman photo. Babushka Lady was shooting at the same time Marie Muchmore shot this frame.