" Look at these two pictures again. Arrows are pointing to the top corner of the jump seat, and the distance between JBC and the side of the car. " Steve
these two photos are not the original two that you posted , and the original two had no arrows .
i know where the jump seat is / was . with the greatest of respect my points still stand . the right side of the jump seat is in a dark shadow and so cant be seen , the same applies for JBCs right arm from above his elbow . both are nearer the right side of the limo than the photos suggest . in addition because the photo is taken from above and at an angle from the front left AS THE PHOTOGRAPHER LOOKS AT THE LIMO JBCs upper most right shoulder area gives the appearance there was a large gap there . he was turned a bit and i believe tipping his hat or fixing his hat position . we can see a lot of JFK through that gap .we see his knees . but my point is that that is not an accurate representation of the distance connally was to the right side of the car .you mention JFK was comfortably leaning his right arm on the limo or atleast words to the affect , but i posted a photo of JBCs with right arm leaning on the right side of the limo reasonably comfortably .
"JBC is facing straight ahead, which he wasn't doing at the time of the assassination" Steve
JBC can be seen in Zapruder frames looking to his right , then facing forward pretty motionless (with JFK reacting behind him ) not long after emerging from behind the sign , and then seen turning to his right again and then going down having been hit .
this is frame z 230 . prior to the above JBC had just emerged from behind the sign , looked to his right , straightened back up and is facing forwards , in or about z232 or shortly there after frame wise he turns to his right again and then goes down . so yes JBC was facing straight ahead as atleast the first shot had ALREADY struck JFK as can be seen in the above frame , all be it he only did so briefly .
the top right corner of the jump seat that you now have an arrow pointing at shows us that we see so much of JFK in the photo because the camera was high up and at an angle . in fact we can see jfks shin/s because the camera angle is such that it can see over the right side of the jump seat .which is what i mean by deceptive , not you now , i mean the camera angle is deceptive .it is not really showing the distance between JBC and the right side of the limo . and in fact its not really showing the entire right side of the jump seat due to the dark shadow . the photos i posted show (all be it again at an angle but a smaller one ) a better view of the position of the jump seats .
it seems you are trying to assert as MYERS did with zero in the way of proof (unless you have an over head photo showing it and we dont ) that the left side of JBCs rear end was not sat flush on the left side of the limo jump seat but hovering several inches over it . i believe from memory the jump seats were a bit over 20 inches in width .i know JBC was a tall man , but so am i . i am a 6 footer , and im big built and broad . i have a two seater sofa and each cushion is 22 inches wide . i can sit on it my rear end flush with the left side of the cushion and i have 5 to 6 inches of cushion free on my right . i am not sure just how large a rear end people think connally had but i can assure you the jump seat at over 20 inches wide was more than adequate for connallys rear end and for him to sit comfortably on it .
again you say jfk was far to the right of JBC but that cant be shown to be accurate , not with the photos here that distort the angles .there is a photo taken from the press car enroute from love field to dealey , it may be from not long after the right turn on to main , but im not 100% on that , i am going form memory . but it shows JFK and JBC from the rear . the photographer i believe but i stand to be corrected LIKELY had his feet up on the rear seat of the car while he sat on the rear of the car . i ESTIMATE he was slightly off center to the left , but again i cant state that 100% , its just my honest opinion from studying the photo and other film . in this photo we see JBCs left shoulder protruding a few inches leftward of JFKs shoulder , and as JBC was sat 2.5 inches to the left we would expect to see that . and we must allow for the slightly offset to the left angle of the camera / photographer also .i mean if we can see a lot of both men well he was not directly behind them in a straight line . i will try to dig out that photo , or perhaps someone else has the photo i speak of and can post it .
