[[ by Martin Shackelford ]]


Item Number Eight:Posner vs. the Photographs: Parkland
POSNER (p. 240, footnote):    As part of his
attempt to refute the acoustics evidence relied upon by the House Select
Committee on Assassinations, he reports:    "McClain was photographed
accompanying Mrs. Kennedy into the hospital." In fact, none of the press
photographers had caught up with the limousine at Parkland Hospital until
after the limousine's occupants had entered the hospital. The earliest
known photographs were all taken after that point. I have heard a report
that a teenage boy took a photograph of the interior of the limousine
after the occupants went inside, but his film was seized and exposed by
the Secret Service. The only known photograph which remotely resembles
what Posner describes is the Dallas Morning News photo showing Jackie
leaving  Parkland Hospital and entering the hearse. The photo shows six
Dallas police officers, one of them a helmeted motorcycle officer, his
face only partly visible, who may be McLain (the correct spelling).