(Testimony of Lyndal L. Shaneyfelt)
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
followup car are looking back and to their right. The one to the front on the left-hand side of the car is looking generally toward the President.
The one in back of him on the left fender is looking slightly to his right.
Representative Ford.
What is the distance on frame 255 between the President and the rifle?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
The distance to the rifle in the window is 218 feet. This is frame 255, which is well past the signboard, well past 249 which is the last frame we considered.
Mr. Mccloy.
Well past the first evidence of reaction?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Yes.
Mr. Mccloy.
On the part of the President to a shot.
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Well past, and past the point in the film where Governor Connally states he has been hit.
Mr. Specter.
Was that simulated car placed in any other position to duplicate still a subsequent frame?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Yes; the frame No. 313, which is the frame that records the shot to the President's head, was recorded as frame 313 and was reestablished during reenactment.
Mr. Specter.
What Commission number has been affixed to frame 313?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Commission Exhibit No. 902.
Mr. Specter.
Is this exhibit organized in a somewhat different fashion from the prior frame exhibits?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
That is correct.
Mr. Specter.
Will you start with the photograph in the upper left-hand corner and describe for the Commissioners, please, each photograph or picture which appears thereon and what it represents?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Yes; I might state first that all of the other photographs were reestablished on the basis of the Zapruder film using reference points in the background of the pictures.
As is apparent here from the photograph of the Zapruder frame 313 there are no reference points. There is just a grassy plot. So there is no reference point on which we can reestablish the position of the car in the roadway.
For this reason it was necessary to use the Nix film of the head shot and the Muchmore film of the head shot to establish this position in the road.
The right-hand photograph represents frame 24 from the Nix film, and is the frame that depicts the shot to the head. We used Mr. Nix's camera and a print of this picture and stood in the previously determined position of Mr. Nix when he took his photographs, and had them roll the car down to a position so that the President's head was directly under the point where Mr. Zapruder is standing on the projection.
Mr. Specter.
You are describing the photograph on which side----
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
On the----
Mr. Specter.
Of the viewer.
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
On the upper left-hand side.
Mr. Mccloy.
I think you said right.
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
The upper left-hand photograph is the photograph from the taken from the frame 24 of the Nix film.
The photograph on the right, upper right, is the photograph taken at the re-enactment from the position where Mr. Nix was standing. We then proceeded over to the point that we had established as the position of Mrs. Muchmore, and using frame 42, which is a frame in her film depicting the shot to the head, and using the steps and their relation to the President and the objects in the background in relation to the President as shown in this lower left-hand photograph, which is the Muchmore frame 42, we reestablished, we checked the position we had placed the car in, based on the Nix photographs, and found that it conformed and checked out as being in a closely accurate position.
This is the basis used for establishing the position of the car. After we had established that, through the Nix and Muchmore films, we then checked it against the Zapruder photograph, which is the second from the top on the left of Commission Exhibit No. 902, frame 313, which shows the explosion from the top of the President's head. Just to the right of that second
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