Part 1380 of my "JFK Assassination Arguments" series includes a variety of my posts and comments covering the period of September 1—30, 2024. To read the entire forum discussion from which my own comments have been extracted, click on the "Full Discussion" logo at the bottom of each individual segment.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Here's an intriguing tidbit of information regarding JFK's 1963 trip to Texas that I found at the Sixth Floor Museum website:
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"Interestingly, the visit to San Antonio was initially scheduled to be after Dallas on Friday, November 22. Trip planning documents at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston outline a different proposed itinerary (dated November 7, 1963) in which the Kennedys began their trip to Texas in the late afternoon of November 21 with a 4:00PM arrival in Houston and an overnight stay in Houston's Rice Hotel. Friday, November 22, would have then started with an early morning flight to Fort Worth for a Chamber of Commerce breakfast at the Rice Hotel [sic], followed by a Dallas motorcade and luncheon at Fair Park (where the annual State Fair of Texas is hosted). From Dallas, the Kennedys would have then traveled to San Antonio on the afternoon of November 22 for the dedication of the aerospace medicine school at Brooks before heading to Austin for a fundraising dinner. As initially planned, the Kennedys would have returned to Washington, D.C. on the night of November 22 rather than spend the weekend at the Johnson Ranch. This early itinerary continued to evolve throughout November until the trip details were finalized." -- Stephen Fagin, Curator, Sixth Floor Museum At Dealey Plaza
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The above info is attached to this Sixth Floor Museum webpage, which includes one of the very few amateur home movies taken during President Kennedy's brief visit to San Antonio, Texas, on November 21, 1963.
The original Houston to Fort Worth to Dallas to San Antonio to Austin itinerary for the Texas trip can be seen in this document [also pictured below], which is part of this JFK Library folder.
Also note in this early unused itinerary that the Dallas luncheon is scheduled to be at the Women's Building at the State Fairgrounds, instead of the Trade Mart.
David Von Pein
September 4, 2024
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KEVIN BALCH SAID THIS.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
It's Clint Hill's foot hooked over the right side of the Presidential limousine. And I can't really understand why this matter has been such a disputed one over the years, since at least one other photograph exists (the top picture below) that provably depicts that very thing occurring (i.e., Secret Service Agent Hill's right foot hanging over the side of the car).
Click to enlarge:
David Von Pein
September 4, 2024
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DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Here's a very good 2020 Sixth Floor Museum/Oral History interview with researcher and author Fred Litwin:
And HERE'S A LINK to Litwin's 1994-1995 article "A Conspiracy Too Big?", which Fred mentions in the above interview.
David Von Pein
September 8, 2024
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DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Below are a couple of additional 11/22/63 photos showing the "bunched up" nature of JFK's jacket during the motorcade through Dallas.
These pictures, which were taken on Lemmon Avenue by a high school student named Richard Clark, also clearly confirm the fact that Governor Connally was sitting a few inches lower in the limousine than the President.
Click to enlarge:
Photo Source: The Sixth Floor Museum (via this video).
David Von Pein
September 10, 2024
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DAVID VON PEIN POSTED A LINK:
http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/Prayer Man
TOM GRAM SAID THIS.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Regarding the things that can be seen in the James Darnell film clip below:
Could it be a reflection of a person standing on the top step? ~shrug~
It kind of looks like reflections in the glass door to me.
TOM GRAM SAID THIS.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Probably reflections.
I see a horizontal dark gap at the top of the metal door frame, which might very well indicate that the door is in the process of closing. And the changing position of the door is probably causing the "moving" reflections seen in the glass door.
TOM GRAM SAID THIS.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
But it could be that the TSBD door is being opened by someone on the other side of the door, because according to the Book Depository floor plans, that door will swing both ways---both inward and outward (at least per this diagram it does):
JOHN COTTER SAID THIS.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
There's absolutely nothing that is "very different" in this Darnell film clip when compared to previously published versions of the same images.
It's just that the newer version posted by Mark Ulrik is a higher-quality and more stabilized version. But the reflections in the glass door and the "dark gap" I talked about previously can still be seen (although not quite as clearly) in the lower-quality version of James Darnell's film below:
DAVID VON PEIN ALSO SAID:
BTW / FWIW....
Duncan MacRae, in this discussion at his own forum, seems to think he has located "Prayer Woman" in this post-assassination photo taken by Phil Willis (which is the picture on the right below):
DAVID VON PEIN ALSO POSTED THESE IMAGES:
DAVID VON PEIN ALSO SAID:
JFK researcher Denis Morissette has had recent contact with The Sixth Floor Museum At Dealey Plaza concerning the Darnell film.
Here's the information Denis received (below).
Click to enlarge:
DAVID VON PEIN LATER SAID:
I just now (on 9/18/24) downloaded to my computer the highest quality version of the Sixth Floor Museum's YouTube video of the Darnell film (1920 x 1080 px, with a total bitrate of 4260 kbps), and then (without altering or changing a thing) I captured the still image below from that unaltered downloaded video:
When comparing the above still image to Mark Ulrik's stabilized version of the Darnell gif clip (below), the neckline of "Prayer Man" looks just about the same
to me:
MARK ULRIK SAID THIS.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
I just checked on your question about the sizes of the Darnell Film video files by downloading the one at jfk.org. And you're right. The video at jfk.org is a much bigger file (due to the processing methods, I would assume). It's 101 MB in size. The YouTube version is only 22 MB. And the jfk.org version shows that it's got a Total Bitrate of 19,409 kbps, vs. 4,000+ for the YouTube version.
A downloadable version of the Darnell file that's on the jfk.org website can be accessed HERE.
DAVID VON PEIN LATER ADDED THIS:
I've been studying both Sixth Floor Museum "versions" of the James Darnell film tonight, and I think I captured the best and clearest video frame of "Prayer Man" that there is in the YouTube version.
And, in my opinion, the reason that the "scoop neckline" isn't quite as defined and clear in that YouTube version is simply due to the fact that THIS JFK.ORG VERSION which was utilized by Mark Ulrik does, indeed, seem to exhibit slightly better picture quality.
Therefore, via the higher quality and the incredibly high bitrate used in the processing of the video (19,409 kbps, which I think is, by far, the highest bitrate I've ever seen for one of my downloaded videos), it stands to reason that some things in the video will be clearer and easier to see and define...such as the "neck ring" on Prayer (Wo)Man.
David Von Pein
September 12-18, 2024
