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Alan Healy

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  1. I suspect we are about to see an entirely different kind of tourist at the Sixth Form Museum. Will Dallas ever be the same again? Paul Get ready to cry Paul! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=la61MLhlpLo&...feature=related
  2. Wait a minute, David ... did you not read the 'Hoax' book after it had come out and before you posted that you have seen 'NO PROOF OF ALTERATION - SOMETHING YOU HAVE SAID FOR YEARS'????? How many times have I seen you repeat this same thing now? Fifty? You always did have trouble understanding what "proof" & "evidence" meant didn't you? Is there any proof that(the plaza's very own Bigfoot) Gordon Arnold was standing in the plaza filming "the parade" as he called it? NO. There is no proof of that whatsoever but, do you still try & convince people that he was there by using the same tired circumstantial "coincidences"(that's being generous calling them that) over & over again & even go so far as twisting the truth to make it lean towards him being there? YES. So then, just because there is no proof of something does not stop an intelligent man believing in that possibility & neither does it stop him wanting to discuss it in a civil environment without fear of being trolled by some repetitive say-nothing garbage. Any Arnold fanatic with a conscience would realise this, oh wait a minute, hmm... that's another one you have trouble with, damn.
  3. Thank you Chris, maybe Miles can see the movement in the 18 frame gif now that you have revealed the shape of the cap so clearly? My apologies for the OT nature of this.
  4. I just wanted to mention something about Zavada & his thoughts on the films authenticity. According to Doug Horne & DSL, Zavada himself actually requested to cut into one frame of the Zfilm & have it tested in a spectrometer. In other words, the man was very obviously, not fully satisfied with the visual inspection alone, he wanted a scientific one to be 100% sure. He didn't get it but the point is, it's what he wanted. From memory, it was more about kelvin than gamma, something that cannot be checked by eye.
  5. Alan, thx for reviving this gif. Not quite clear on your interesting point. Could you post some individual frames in this sequence & perhaps indicate how you see the "cap turning," as you put it. Cheers Miles Hi Miles, I did try but, when I reviewed my efforts to highlight it for you they pailed in comparison to the looping crop of Chris's stabilized Z gif that I reposted above. Did you try saving it to your desktop & enlarging it a little in your image previewer? It's the peak of the cap/hat, that suggests the movement & it juts out to the left of the cap itself.
  6. Jack, somewhere back on the forum (maybe Miles can help for a change, there was a four frame gif that I posted showing Hudson turning his head with the movement of the car. So whether the frames are 1 - 4 or 16 - 20 - or 100 - 104 ... its not their numbers that was an issue here, but whether the person's head is seen in more than one frame. Bill Zapruder actually shows the peak of Hudson "Baseball" type cap turning left & then dropping sharply. Watching it again now it's even more obvious than before. I thought this observation of Chris's was also worthy of futher study. Is there a something dark on the wall behind the Willis girl or does she "really" lose her head? http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff188/B...oseheadWill.gif Anyway, ignore me I'm just catching up on some of these threads.
  7. Jack, I know it can only ever be a guess but I personally believe both of these women have been acounted for. The first is seen in Wiegman running east along the sidewalk. http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff188/B...gmanrunning.jpg I heard another researcher point out that this could been the same woman who told officer Smith, "They are shooting the President from the bushes". The second woman is still right there, laying on the ground east of the Newmans. To be honest I forget her name but it's the reporter captured in many images & who said the same thing as the first woman, the shots came from the knoll.
  8. Thanks. Now everyone can plainly see the difference. You took an image of two figures on the pedestal & enhanced it so much they dissapeared. That's the bottom line. As for the personal comments, they just highlight your lack of class & there's me thinking your "enhancments" made you like bad. Did you ever apply these same "superior" techniques on the "Hatman" image? Here's hoping...
  9. This wasn't the worst "enhancement" of BDM I've ever seen(I've seen things many times worse) but when the producer of it comes out here claiming "it's the best" it actually turns into the worst. Someone needs to start a "Photo enhancement semina" on this forum asap. One thing you have to get through your head; when the image you are working with starts to become pixelated on your screen, stop enlarging the image right there, do not keep zooming in until the pixels become blocks & then click "save as" like you've found something new. Both the Moorman & Betzner images you have "Shinola"'d in this thread are rife with blocky pixels & you can't search for small details amongst those type images because, anything you find is totally unreliable since it is surrounded by all that noise which we all know was not in the original image. Your camera, your man behind the wall with his box & your words "the best", they all fit into the catagory of "noise" & I seriously can't believe your still pushing this ear-ache in '08. "It's the clearest view the vision impaired community has ever had of BDM." Fixed. This is the best view of BDM from the Betzner3 in LIFE magazine http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff188/B...man/blacdog.png Or this actual careful enhancment of the above. http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff188/B...dogman/3074.jpg Notice an pixels? There's also the blow-up of B3 from Groden in TKOAP, http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff188/B...lifevgroden.png These are the best we have & anyone with anywhere near what we would call resonable vision can see the difference in quality. The same goes from this Moorman crop. http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff188/B...n/DSpedcrop.png It's the best we have & it firmly remains in the realms of reality, where as "your best" look like they're from another dimension, one where time & space have no meaning. Enough with the cartoons already.
  10. There are otherer interpretations. http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff188/B...ogman/Fixed.png Don't get transfixed on the illusionary hat. Study the best image from "SSID". http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff188/B...opuntouched.png
  11. Kathy. The shape at the fence in the "SSID" print was what Thompson found & it was never given "that" handle until most likely someone(on a forum somewhere, constantly referred to it as "Hatman" & was picked up & used by others. Very much like "Blackdogman". That is not a black dog but it's just as catchy & we all know exactly what's being referred to. Someday everyone will realise it's not a hat just like BDM is not a dog. As far as "Thompson having never claimed it's a figure" well, would the shape of a gunman fall into the catagory of "a figure"? Because that is exactly what Josiah proposed to the reader in "SSID". SSID P:127(hb) So yes, back then, Thompson thought it was a gunman/sniper w/e He did not consider the hat shape important, if it was/is a gunman like he thought then, he had to have been caught in the act of firing, with both shoulders & head above the fence. So yes he did indeeed claim it was a figure, the figure of a gunman to be exact. Fwiw Kathy, the hat shape is still simply an illusion IMO but that illusion seems to have presidence atm. Was Groden ever asked if BDM could have really been a dog? Think about it.
  12. I tried my best to get you to give details of how you arrived at your 12' foot measurment but you gave me nothing. "I don't have to be a genius to work out why".
  13. And the significance of this wonderous horticultural analysis ? Read back to this how this petty exchange started to find the significance. It was a visual analysis, not a conclusion Incorrect & you still haven't produced details of how you come to the 12' mark, which Thompson measured @14'. Is it a condition of membership that I need to ask forum members? No but it is usual when someone puts something out for "discussion", which is what you said was your intention. Wow..How can you comment on anything, when you don't even understand the objects concerned as clearly illustrated in the opening post One more try. How did you come to the 12' conclusion stated as fact in the OP? I have a better reference source than the book Yet your still looking for "confirmation" of Thompon's 14' measurement? You can't say that Alan, well you can actually, but it's an uneducated statement if you ask me, as it's not obvious that it is not a hat or that it is a hat It's obvious when you know that the original M5 photo would not illustrate such detail from that distance. It's clear to you, but no one else Who "else"? Too easy Alan , It's obviously the initials of your first and second names which just happens to be the same first and second letters of an insulting term which I can't say because of the forum rules. You work that out I did before I wrote it , you got it in two & that's what I think of your humour. Stupid question Childish answer.
  14. Hi Miles, It's not a man's hat, it is most likely his left shoulder IMHO & his face is well above the fence. Your convinced it's a hat & I strongly believe you're wrong. The "SSID" crop of M5 that started this has been worked on to bring out the shape at the fence but in doing so, has accidently produced this fedora style detail. Don't kid yourself it's trustworthy. This is like the third or fourth time you have made this response to me about "shorty", I'm telling you your mistaken & for the last time, I don't believe it's a GD hat! I believe you are correct about placing a rifle between the slats however. That was a great point you made before. It's not something this situation would warrant. At least not from a professional. He can be a shooter, you just have to get past the misleading "hat" shape. Regards.
  15. It was missing, as I didn't have a copy at the time. Here's a better quality version for you to look at. I don't need it I have the book. I believe that is correct Good Possibly It's a fact, there is more growth on the trees in the signal photo if you look closely, thus the signal photo was taken on another date. He is referring to what he calls an object in the distance, ie, the highlighted object in the first post. He has told me that he does not know what the object is. Quote from Gary with acknowledged corrected year, ie 1963 for 1966 The 1963 and 1967 shapes, IMO, are two completely different objects. Gary Okay, I think I got it the wrong way around somehow nevermind, I read it again. Gary thinks he sees the signals in the '67 footage as well. There was no conclusion, only a topic put forward for debate. I worked it out by comparing other objects in Moorman, You don't need to be Einstein to calculate the distance. You said & I quote; That is a conclusion, you never asked for confirmation from anyone & I still don't know how you worked it out so I'll try again. Exactly what objects are you talking about? I still feel that the 14' mark(Hollandman) is hidden behind the tree in the '67 footage. To be confirmed Maybe someone can post the measurment in print from "SSID" for you, would that suffice? To be confirmed Obviously. What you suggest I call it doesn't concern me, and yes i'm posting to try to get responses. Isn't that the whole logic behind posting on a Forum? It's not the whole idea no. Not everyone thinks like you. The shape is exactly that, an unidentifiable shape which is confusing to not only lay people with a passing interest, but also to everyone else. If it wasn't confusing, we would not be discussing it here and elsewhere It's not a hat, that is obvious. It all depends on the enhancement method used on a particular and specific area of a phjotograph. You should know that by now Alan. Incorrect, it starts with the quality of the original photo & this one was clearly not good enough to outline a fedora hat that well from that distance. It is clearly something else. It's not clearly something else, it's clearly unidentifiable Incorrect. Someone later identified it as a hat, others then picked up on it & now they can't get past it. So they have ID'd it, although incorrectly. It's not a hat, that IS clear. Why don't we call it " Healyhasn'tatacluewhatitisman" Or AHman for short? Less obvious, work it out. The bottom line here IMO, is that you found an object in that misalined '67 footage that is almost five times the size of the "hat". What I want to know from you Duncan is whether you think there's a chance Josiah decieved us with his photo taken from the correct position & height that shows nothing or maybe even innocently missed this huge dome(whatever it is..). FYI there are no dates in "SSID" for these photos but the 14' measurement is on the same page as them.
  16. I've got several issues with this. I'll start with the easiest. Your missing signals on the overhead view. http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff188/B...SignalTower.jpg Next, from the SSID Thompson photos you posted above, there is curiously one missing. It's the one that shows the tower but not Holland(bottom right). http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff188/B...MooreSSIDM5.jpg The reason it shows Holland in position & not the shape of the signal tower is because the camera was too low. Not all those Thompson photos were taken on the same day. First Thompson got Holland to stand where he thought the shots came from & then at some later date he went back &(or after he) discovered the signal tower(that's my educated guess!). The height of the Holland positional photo wasn't that important,(hence the lack of signals) but the height of the signal tower photo was essential & he appears to have got it very close to Moorman because we can see the wall in that photo & it's within an inch or two. Another thing. Gary says there is a shape in the CBS footage that seems to be in the(IMO mislabled) "Hatman" position. Are you sure you two are talking about the same thing Duncan? Because if Gary feels that what he is referring to could be the signal tower, then it is obvious to me he is talking about something to the right(east) of the tree in that '67 footage, not what you highlighted west of it. You said in your opening post that the object we are seeing left(west) of the tree is 12' from the corner, I'm curious to know how you could work this out & be so confident about your conclusion to encourage others to just take your word for it? BTW, Thompson measured it on-site @14' but that is not my point. I personally think the Hollandman position is behind the tree in the CBS footage, but I'm just eyeballin' it. Finally, neither Josiah, Gary or I believe what you are looking at "on" the fence in Moorman is just a hat. We believe it's a most likely a man with both his shoulders well above the fence. The hat shape is just an illusion. So I would suggest calling it "Holland's man"(or something) when trying to glean a response from the man who first spotted it. The "hat" shape is totaly confusing laypeople too. There is no way a hat at the fence would be that well defined in Moorman, with that kind of definition we would see every "V" in every slat of the fence. It is clearly something else. Hatman is a crock..... dude, it's "Hollandman".
  17. So personal insults are tolerated but the word "Bullshi*" is not? Thanks for your support Tim
  18. Here's a direct crop from Craig's 12MB file for David. http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff188/B...161So6XaM9P.png It shows exactly what is seen in Wim's crop. Kathy uploaded a crop showing, "the three figures" above the wall, here's an idea what the rest of the image you posted looks like Kathy. http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff188/B...illersDream.png
  19. Crops from the very prints before fading took place were made and ended up in Josiah's and Groden's books. Misinformation again. What is seen in Six Seconds has been worked on to bring out thr shape at the fence, what was done to it, we don't know exactly know & Gary Mack just recently said that print was "terrible". The "Killing of a President" shows us absolutely nothing apart from one tiny blow-up of Badgeman from Jack's work. Bullcrap
  20. What Wim posted is exactly what is seen in the drumscan, is that "multi-generational or degraded"? No. It might not be as sharp around the BM area as one would like but it's not the piece of cra* you are making it out to be. No one can use the clearest, sharpest print because they were never published in full. So what Wim posted was the best available to him, you or I.
  21. Alan, was Roberts the commanding field officer? I always thought it was Winston Lawson, I may be wrong. Denis. Sorry Denis, I didn't mean it to sound like Roberts was in charge of everyone on the ground, his official title was "shift leader"(basically the foreman). He officially only had control of a group of men but those men where the most important when it came to protecting the limo & it's occupants(not that day obviously), the ones riding in & on the follow-up vehicle. I could be wrong but I don't think Clint Hill, paid too much attention to Roberts(probably for more than one reason). Lawson was advance man for the Dallas trip & rode in the lead car, what exact power he had I really don't know but I'm pretty sure Sorrels at least was his superior(as the advance man, wouldn't Lawson be studying a map or notes to make sure they went the right way? I'll know all this stuff one day I hope. *** Thanks Lee for finding that exact paragraph, re: the Johnson switch.
  22. The only way to "cut out the middleman" when conversing with Groden is, don't mention Bill, don't mention the forums & don't use your real name. Otherwise Bill will know what Groden said before you do.
  23. The picture (in position #3 below the Arnold interview in your link) does not show them as the same height. Does the existence of Badge Man negate the Files' story? That's because that is one of Jack's "enhancements", and I rather draw from the original. Badgeman negates all credibe evidence, like Lee Bowers, the HSCA acoustics tests, witness accounts, and the puff of smoke from under the large tree, seen by at least three witnesses, like Sam Holland and co-workers. But most of all, Badgeman negates the laws of physics. But if you don't believe your eyes or think I tricked them, be my guest , take a big copy of the Moorman picture and go through the exercise yourself. Wim Wim, with respect, you are not drawing from the "original", you are using Thompson's drumscan. The high res' version of it that Craig Lamson made available again not too long ago, is probably the best we mere mortals have available but, I have doubts that that was as good as one of the best prints that Gary Mack got to choose from. I don't know exactly what Thompon & Co did to the print they had at the time of "SSID" but, if it was just honest enhancement, simply to bring out the shape at the fence("Hatman"), then it was a far better print than what was drumscanned.
  24. Not sure if it's really worth showing but anyway, from TKOAP, P.167 http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff188/B...Pp167M5crop.png It shows exactly the same as what the SSID print does, only it's around one sixth of the size so, less detail. It may look richer in the book but closer inspection shows half of RAM's head is gone, exactly like what's seen in SSID(it is still better than what's seen on page 173 though). The drumscan shows both sides of his head & I guess an untouched print would as well & I bet that same print would show more detail in the "Hatman" area too. Here's hoping we all get to see one some day.
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