(Testimony of Lyndal L. Shaneyfelt)
Mr. Specter.
What motion pictures, if any, were taken during the reenactment?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
During the reenactment the black-and-white photographs were made from Zapruder's position with a Speedgraphic camera and we also took motion pictures with Mr. Zapruder's camera from Zapruder's position with the car in the fixed locations as they were established with the car just stationary in those locations.
After establishing all those points and making these film records of it, we then had the car proceed along that Elm Street route at approximately 11 miles per hour, and filmed it with Mr. Zapruder's camera loaded with color film from Mr. Zapruder's position and simultaneously photographed it with Mr. Nix's camera from Mr. Nix's position, and Mrs. Muchmore's camera from Mrs. Muchmore's position, and this was done twice.
(Off the record.)
Mr. Specter.
The last question was about what movies and stills you took?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
We haven't discussed them all yet.
Mr. Specter.
Were any other movies taken or photographs taken in addition to those which you heretofore described?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Yes; after positioning the car in the street at the specific locations and making the movies with the Zapruder, Nix, and Muchmore cameras with the car running at 11 miles an hour on the route, I then went to the sixth-floor window and mounted the camera on the rifle, and photographs were made with black and white film motion pictures of the car in the fixed positions from frame 161 through frame positions 313. The car was stopped at each position. The individuals and the car were positioned by Mr. Gauthier on the street using the Zapruder pictures to reposition the individuals in the car, and motion pictures were made of the car sitting in those various positions. After this the car was driven at 11 miles an hour along the route and photographs were made through the rifle scope with a 16-mm. motion picture camera following the car as a target, as the car drove down the assassination route.
Following this, there were three runs made on black and white film. Then color film was loaded in the camera and it was again photographed on color film, 16 mm. with the car traveling at 11 miles an hour and the scope of the rifle following the car as the target.
This completed all the photographs that were made at the assassination site.
Mr. Specter.
Was a subsequent photograph taken in the garage which you previously identified as the railway express garage?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
That is correct.
Mr. Specter.
Will you repeat, even though you have heretofore mentioned them, the angles between the spot on the back of President Kennedy's neck which was marked with a white chalk mark and the muzzle of the rifle when the car was positioned at frame 210?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
The angle, based on the horizontal at frame 210, to the rifle in the window was 21°34'.
Mr. Specter.
What was the comparable angle at frame 225?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
20 11'.
Mr. Specter.
So what would be the average angle then between those two points?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
The average angle, allowing for the 309, street grade results in an average angle between frame 210 and frame 225 of 17°43'30''.
Mr. Specter.
And that is the average angle from the muzzle to President Kennedy as he sat in the car or President Kennedy's stand-in as he sat in the car?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
That is correct. To the wound entrance.
Mr. Specter.
Is the average angle of 17 43'30'' measured from the muzzle to the President's body as the President would be seated in the car?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
That is out on the street in those frame positions, yes. It is measured to the point of the wound on the back of the President.
Mr. Specter.
I now hand you a photograph which has been marked as Commission Exhibit No. 903 and ask you if you know who the photographer was?
Mr. Shaneyfelt.
Yes; I took this photograph.
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