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

 

This is the Willis photo which shows us Zapruder on his pedestal in relation to the freeway sign. At the time, JFK was down the hill a ways, and Zapruder had turned with him because he was tracking him. But, just imagine that it was at the beginning when Zapruder was pointing his camera at the top of Dealey Plaza, shooting the start of the Zapruder film.

I have drawn a white ling to represent the center of his field of view. Now remember that that field of view is shaped like a cone. and it involves an angle of view that is constant. So, from that pedestal, when shooting the top of Dealey Plaza, as we see it at the start of the Zapruder film, if he had captured that freeway sign, even a little, it would have comprised an angle that is represented by the second white line that goes through the sign. And that line would have to continue all the way to the top,. Imagine how wide it would be when it got there. Yet, Zapruder's field was pretty narrow.

I'm also attaching Z-88 which captured some of the sign. Notice how narrow the camera field is. It consists of the street and the sidewalk, and that's about it. So, how could he have captured the sign? He wouldn't have. And he didn't. And I didn't either when I went there and tried it with a sign in place.

But, here is something that I think is universal: Without knowing a thing about physics, intuitively, just from our experience of taking photos all our lives, we know that standing on that pedestal and shooting the top of Dealey Plaza, he was not going to capture that sign, that his camera field could not have been that wide so close to his camera when his area of interest was so far away. No way was that sign going to get in the way of his shooting when he was starting out. He would have had to turn quite a bit before it would intrude on his image. And I proved it in Dealey Plaza.