[[ by Martin Shackelford ]]



Item Number Seven:Posner vs. the Photographs: Dillard
POSNER:   p. 226:   "Now all alone, Oswald had enough
time to assemble the Carcano..."   p. 228:   "...reliable testimony from
the Depository places Oswald, alone, on the sixth floor by noon..."TOM
DILLARD:   Dillard photo 1 was taken from a camera car on Houston Street
within 10-30 seconds after the final shot. Anyone on the 6th floor of the
Depository at that time would have been there at the same time as Oswald.
The photo has always been published with the left edge cropped off, but
the House Assassinations Committee obtained the original negative, from
which Robert Groden made prints at various light levels. As he reported
in a memo to the Committee on February 25, 1979 (HSCA VI p. 310), he
found "what seems to be a human figure at the extreme western window on
the sixth floor of the TSBD." He recommended that the area be further
studied from the computer-enhanced negatives made for the Committee. This
was never done, and the discovery was largely ignored until Mr. Groden
began including it in his slide presentations, and finally in his 1993
book, The Killing of a President (p. 208-209). The window at the West End
TSBD          Printed lighter, with the figure