Mary Moorman Tells Story

[kenmurray]

MARRY MOORMAN-JEAN HILLby Dealey Joe » Sat Nov 19, 2011 2:26 pm Mary Moorman was standing on grass about 2 feet (61 cm) south of the south curb of Elm Street in Dealey Plaza, directly across from the grassy knoll and the North Pergola concrete structure that Abraham Zapruder and his assistant Marilyn Sitzman were standing on, during the assassination. Moorman stated that she stepped off from the grass onto the street to take her Polaroid photo. Zapruder is seen standing on the pergola in the Moorman photograph, with the presidential limousine already having passed through the line of sight between Zapruder and Moorman.She and her friend, Jean Hill, can be clearly seen in many frames of the Zapruder film.[2] Between Zapruder film frames Z-315 and 316, Moorman took a Polaroid photograph, her fifth that day, showing the presidential limousine with the grassy knoll area in the background.Moorman's photograph captured the fatal head shot which killed President Kennedy. When she took it – approximately one sixth of a second after President Kennedy's head was shattered at frame Z-313 – Moorman was standing behind and to the left of President Kennedy, about 15 feet (5 m) from the presidential limousine.It will be interesting to hear what she says after all these years.

[Bob]

Please see this photo...This photo shows a crowd of people heading across Elm Street towards the knoll area. Among them appears to be a man who looks like E. Howard Hunt. Behind Hunt is a man questioning Mary Moorman. I believe that man could be Frank Sturgis.

[Davyjones]

Just watched the iantiques first show which preludes Mary Mormans show on the 24th May.It is mainly about the cameras in the story. Mark Lane in his great read Rush to Judgment says Mary took a photo just previous to the famous Knoll picture.No one (public) has seen it. The guy in the iantiques program,an expert on the poleriod she used, says it takes about 30 secs in between shots. If that is true in this case what could the missing picture show?Did she catch a view of the TBD and the Dal Tex just as the JFK car travelled towards the slow turn? Got to watch her interview.

[kenmurray]

Let's just hope that Gary Mack is not coaching her.

[Davyjones]

Funny..I dont think so...I suspect this Lady has a few things on her mind she wants to get out before its too late. Why she should agree to do it after so long in time if she has nothing but window dressing(sic) to say would suprise me.It says a lot for the internet that this kind of show can go out in the mall of a antiques shop! Go for it girl!!!

[Dealey Joe]

I think it is a publicity scam to raise money for the Art institute or whatever organization it is she is part of.

[Deborah]

Dealey Joe wrote:I think it is a publicity scam to raise money for the Art institute or whatever organization it is she is part of.Mary Moorman has stated publicly she has decided to SELL the original of the famous photo she took of Kennedy's assassination because at her age she wants to put it behind her and she would like to travel. The original has been in a safe at the TSBD museum. I think it plausible, the venue for her talk at an antiques mart, is chosen simply as a good market for potential buyers of pieces of history. I suspect this original photo is going to go up auction at the venue.

[Deborah]

Davyjones wrote:Just watched the iantiques first show which preludes Mary Mormans show on the 24th May.It is mainly about the cameras in the story. Mark Lane in his great read Rush to Judgment says Mary took a photo just previous to the famous Knoll picture.No one (public) has seen it. The guy in the iantiques program,an expert on the poleriod she used, says it takes about 30 secs in between shots. If that is true in this case what could the missing picture show?Did she catch a view of the TBD and the Dal Tex just as the JFK car travelled towards the slow turn? Got to watch her interview.Moorman has stated that her Poloroid had a 10 second processing time between shots.

[Deborah]

The following is posted on www.spartacus.net"(2) Federal Bureau of Investigation Report (22nd November, 1963)Mary Ann Moorman, 2832 Ripplewood, telephone number DA 1-9390, advises that she and a friend named Jean Hill, 9402 Bluff Creek, Dallas, Texas, watched the President Kennedy parade from the grassy area in the parkway between Main and Elm Streets, and at approximately 12:25 p.m, as well as she recalls, she took a photograph of the procession as it proceeded toward her. She took this photgraph with a polaroid camera, and the photograph showed the police motorcycle escort preceding the President's car. In the background of this photograph she said the Texas School Book Depository Building was visible.She took a second photograph of the President as his automobile passed her, and just as she snapped the the picture, she heard what she at first thought was a firecracker and very shortly thereafter heard another similar sound which she later determined to have been gunfire. She knows that she heard two shots and possibly a third shot. She recalls seeing the president "sort of jump" and start to slump sideways in the seat, and seems to recall President Kennedy's wife scream, "My God, he's been shot"!Mrs. Moorman states that she and her companion fell to the ground, but does not now recall what prompted her to fall unless it was the reports and the commotion in the President's car. She says she must have instictively realized that there was a shooting, but does not recall actually thinking about it. She states that she could not determine where the shots came from, and her next recollection is of people running more or less aimlessly, it seemed to her. She recalls that the President's automobile was moving at the time she took the second picture, and when she heard shots, and has the impression that the car either stopped momentarily or hesitated and then drove off in a hurry.She stated that as the President's car drove off she started to leave the grassy area and was stopped by a Mr. Featherstone, a newspaper man with the KRLD Radio and TV Station who questioned her concerning her observance of the incident.Mrs. Moorman advises that the photograph she took showing the police motorcycles preceeding President Kennedy's car and also showing the Texas School Book Depository Building was given by her to Secret Service Agents John Joe Howlett and Bill Patterson shortly before 4:00 p.m. November 22, 1963. The second photograph taken at the time she heard the shots showed the President slumping sideways in the automobile. She furnished this photograph to Bureau Agents.Mrs. Moorman advised that she saw no one in the area that appeared to have possibly been the assassin, and could furnish no additional information."

[Dealey Joe]

They are the same gals who saw a puppy in the seat with JFK and Jackie?