Was June Dishong "Captured" At The Left Edge Of Full-Frame Altgens-6?

[Thomas Graves]

Well, I see her in the supplied cropped Betzner3 Photo. Re-reading my post, if you can see NotTallLadyImage/aka BlueCoatLadyImage,(MrsDishong?), said PersonImage is to KarenWestbrookImage's front-left. And, both LadyImages are visible over the SSA's right shoulder whose head appears to block KaranHicksImage and CarolReedImage in said cropped Betzner3 Photo.
I do believe James sees it correctly. And, this Reply is not meant for debate, as it only confirms what I see represented by the Images as shown in Betzner3 Photo.

Dear Larry,

Perhaps what you're seeing to the immediate right of "Woman All In White" in Betzner-3 is "My Dishong," not "Westbrook".

-- Mudd Wrassler Tommy 

[James Hackerott]

Larry,

I'm talking about James' graphic reproduction of Betzner-3, above, in which he has a woman dressed in blue and wearing a white headscarf standing between "Woman All In White" and "My Dishong" (whom James has highlighted in green for us).

I don't see that woman "in blue" and wearing a "white" headscarf in the Betzner-3 photograph, although I do see her in the Zapruder frame.

Based on Westbrook's and Calvery's tall statures as we know them from the December, 1963, Southwestern Publishing photo, I believe that that tall woman dressed in "blue" and wearing a "white" headscarf in Zapruder is Karen Westbrook, and that the tall gal at the other end of that line of four headscarf-wearing gals is, of course, Gloria Calvery

I'm just surprised that, although I can see the tilted-down and light-colored-headscarf-covered head of shorty Dishong in Betzner-3, I can't seem to see the tall, darkly-dressed, light-colored-headscarf "Westbrook" next to her in Betzner-3 ... although James apparently can.

-- Mudd Wrassler Tommy 

PS  I'm glad that James posted Zapruder frame # 129, above, because in it we can see a small part of shorty Dishong's light-colored headscarf, peeking at us from her position in front of and in between those other gals.

Thomas,

About the white headscarf of my rendered Westbrook, my homemade mannequins can only show one color for either hair color or covering e.g. scarfs. For all four rendered POVs the models were completely unchanged. I meant to mention that but did not. Why we fail to see that white scarf in authentic Betzner3 is due to the scarf's position about half way behind the front of her head so we see her dark hair from his POV,. Follow her in early frames roughly 015-032. Don't blink, her head turn is quite rapid but gives us a good side view of her dark hair several inches forward of the front of the scarf.
 

James

[James Hackerott]

James,

Thanks!

Excellent job, and a great aide in helping members and guests see, in Zapruder and Atgens-6 (and, hey, maybe even in Betzner-3) the rather short, headscarf-wearing woman I've been talking about.

Regarding Dishong's poignant same-day, written-down memories of the assassination, I don't see how they conflict with my theory as to where she was standing during the motorcade.

However, Roberdeau's claim that at least one of her relatives positively identified her in Betzner-3(?) as one of women standing about twenty feet nearer the Triple Underpass than "My Dishong" bugs the heck out of me.  LOL

I can only speculate that Roberdeau might have consciously or unconsciously "guided" that relative to that particular (unknown, imho) woman in Betzner-3 because he knew from Westbrook's FBI statement  that Dishong had watched the motorcade with Westbrook and Calvery, et al., and because he had already made up his mind (incorrectly, as we now know) exactly where Calvery was.

-- Mudd Wrassler Tommy 

PS  In Betzner-3 (a crop of which you posted, above) I don't see your woman in the blue dress between "Lady All In White" and "My Dishong" (whom you highlighted in green), so that's a bit of a mystery to me ...

PPS  Thanks for including Moorman "3", James.
I had totally forgotten about that photo.

I was unaware of Dishong's name showing in any FBI report. The online FBI report (CE1381) at the History Matters web site is a searchable PDF, and she did not show up anywhere in that exhibit. I'm not sure her name was known in JFK lore until Roberdeau published his findings.

Her family's recollection were her identifying herself in a LIFE magazine photo as being the fourth person from the Stemmons sign. That seems like a Zapruder frame. I don't know if Betzner3 or Bronson were published in LIFE. I interpret his words about her appearing in Betzner and Bronson as Don's commentary.

[Thomas Graves]

I was unaware of Dishong's name showing in any FBI report. The online FBI report (CE1381) at the History Matters web site is a searchable PDF, and she did not show up anywhere in that exhibit. I'm not sure her name was known in JFK lore until Roberdeau published his findings.

Her family's recollection were her identifying herself in a LIFE magazine photo as being the fourth person from the Stemmons sign. That seems like a Zapruder frame. I don't know if Betzner3 or Bronson were published in LIFE. I interpret his words about her appearing in Betzner and Bronson as Don's commentary.

James,

Going from memory here and I might be wrong, but I believe that although Dishong herself was not interviewed by, nor did she give a statement to, the FBI, she was mentioned in a FBI statement by at least one of the four gals in the Calvary/Hicks/Reed/Westbrook "party" as being a tangential member thereof.

Edit:  Turns out I was very, very, very wrong about that.  Just now re-read the FBI statements of Calvery, Hicks, Reed, and Westbrook and found no mention of Dishong therein.  Don't know how I came up with that silly idea, now.  Maybe because I looked for so many years at the Z-frame labeled by Robin Unger (with help from Thierry "Fake News" Speth and Robin "I'll Get It Right Eventually" Roberdeau, and it brainwashed me into thinking Dishong must have been standing next to Karen Westbrook during the motorcad?


If Dishong's relative (or Dishong, herself) "identified" her/herself from behind in the Zapruder film or a Zapruder frame, one must wonder how accurate they could have possibly been (from behind!), and whether or not they were encouraged to pick out that particular mystery woman as "June".

We already know that Karen Westbrook mis-identified herself in a Zapruder frame in 2017, so apparently it's easy to do.

LOL

Regardless, it's my understanding that Betzner-3 was published in Life magazine in November, 1967.

http://droberdeau.blogspot.com/2011/05/page-10.html

-- Mudd Wrassler Tommy 

[Thomas Graves]

James,

Going from memory here and I might be wrong, but I believe that although Dishong herself was not interviewed by, nor did she give a statement to, the FBI, she was mentioned in a FBI statement by at least one of the four gals in the Calvary/Hicks/Reed/Westbrook "party" as being a tangential member thereof.

Edit: Turns out I was very, very, very wrong about that. Just now re-read the FBI statements of Calvery, Hicks, Reed, and Westbrook and found no mention of Dishong therein.  Don't know how I came up with that silly idea, now.  Maybe because I looked for so many years at the Z-frame labeled by Robin Unger (with help from Thierry "Fake News" Speth and Robin "I'll Get It Right Eventually" Roberdeau), and it brainwashed me into thinking Dishong must have been standing next to Karen Westbrook during the motorcade?


If Dishong's relative (or Dishong, herself) "identified" her/herself from behind in the Zapruder film or a Zapruder frame, one must wonder how accurate they could have possibly been (from behind!), and whether or not they were encouraged to pick out that particular mystery woman as "June".

We already know that Karen Westbrook mis-identified herself in a Zapruder frame in 2017, so apparently it's easy to do.

LOL

Regardless, it's my understanding that Betzner-3 was published in Life magazine in November, 1967.

http://droberdeau.blogspot.com/2011/05/page-10.html

-- Mudd Wrassler Tommy 

edited and bumped

[James Hackerott]

James,

Going from memory here and I might be wrong, but I believe that although Dishong herself was not interviewed by, nor did she give a statement to, the FBI, she was mentioned in a FBI statement by at least one of the four gals in the Calvary/Hicks/Reed/Westbrook "party" as being a tangential member thereof.

Edit:  Turns out I was very, very, very wrong about that.  Just now re-read the FBI statements of Calvery, Hicks, Reed, and Westbrook and found no mention of Dishong therein.  Don't know how I came up with that silly idea, now.  Maybe because I looked for so many years at the Z-frame labeled by Robin Unger (with help from Thierry "Fake News" Speth and Robin "I'll Get It Right Eventually" Roberdeau, and it brainwashed me into thinking Dishong must have been standing next to Karen Westbrook during the motorcad?


If Dishong's relative (or Dishong, herself) "identified" her/herself from behind in the Zapruder film or a Zapruder frame, one must wonder how accurate they could have possibly been (from behind!), and whether or not they were encouraged to pick out that particular mystery woman as "June".

We already know that Karen Westbrook mis-identified herself in a Zapruder feame in 2017, so apparently it's easy to do.

LOL

Regardless, it's my understanding that Betzner-3 was published in Life magazine in November, 1967.

http://droberdeau.blogspot.com/2011/05/page-10.html

-- Mudd Wrassler Tommy 

Thanks for that Thomas, but not a problem. Actually, I was kinda pulling for you in a way.. Keep up the good work!
James

[Thomas Graves]

Thanks for that Thomas, but not a problem. Actually, I was kinda pulling for you in a way.. Keep up the good work!
James

James,

So, where do you believe Dishong was standing during the motorcade?

-- Mudd Wrassler Tommy 

PS  You were pulling for me? As in past tense? LOL

[Thomas Graves]

For what it's worth, Dishong's daughter allegedly told Don Roberdeau that her mother worked in the Higgenbotham-Bailey Building (about five blocks from Dealey Plaza in the general direction of the "Old Red" courthouse).

It's interesting to note that in her "memoir," Dishong alludes to having watched the motorcade with at least one other person from work.

Could it be that she watched it with only one other co-worker, and that that unnamed person was mis-labeled as "Westbrook" in Unger's Z-frame (and in Roberdeau's map) back in the day, i.e., the woman wearing the yellowish-pinkish-orangish dress to the left of (possibly correctly labeled "Dishong") in Unger's infamous Z-frame?

-- Mudd Wrassler Tommy