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

As we look at this Betzner image, imagine that instead of having this perspective, we were in front of the south face of the pedestal and looking at them that way. How would they look?

So, you're standing across the street, and you're looking at that south face of the pedestal squarely. She would appear mostly behind him, wouldn't she? Here is how they depicted it in the JFK movie:

To get an image like this below, wouldn't you have to be east of them?

You're seeing the east side of each of them. Their west sides are completely out of view. Obviously, the photographer was shooting them from a location that was east of them.

But, according to this rendering, Mary was directly across from Zapruder. 

Let's draw a line at 90 degrees and see what we get.

Wow, that is practically spot-on. If she was facing Elm Street squarely when she shot the Kennedys (which she has always said and indicated and demonstrated) then she should have captured the Kennedys in the center and Zapruder behind them, also well centered. Keep that in mind:

Look at the plat again. Notice the ducks in a row from Mary Moorman to JFK to Zapruder. 

So, how do you wind up with so much separation between the Kennedys and Zapruder? 

They're separated because the picture wasn't taken like that. It was taken on a diagonal. The camera wasn't pointed at Zapruder, though it was pointed at Kennedy. However, it was pointed at a diagonal from behind. And that's why there is so much separation between the Kennedys and Zapruder. But how could Mary Moorman have taken it when her situation was this?

And notice that it says there Z-315. Above it, it says Z-312. And it says head shots, plural. That's because some people believe that a fraction of a second before the back-and-to-the-left head shot there was another head shot from the rear which caused his head to move forward. I am not getting into that. But, the point is: this was the time. This was the moment of the Moorman photo. And you can see how the situation was for Mary Moorman. And there is no way that she, just aiming her camera at them and shooting, could have captured this: