This is a fantasy post. This is only fiction. So please take it with a grain of salt.
If you are old enough, you might remember a daytime TV program called “Queen For A Day”. It was obviously made for the housewife daytime audience. If I remember correctly, a lady was crowned “Queen For A Day” and her prize was to actually live some type of fantasy for a day. I really don’t remember all the details. The point is that there never was a “King For A Day” counterpart program for the guys. So, in my old age, I am going to indulge myself and pretend that I am some type of Royell-ty (King) and make up a fantasy and share it here on the forum. (Ya’ll are the lucky ones.)
I showed this image in a recent post in the Closer Look thread. It shows the relative positions of the motorcade vehicles at the time of all the reactions highlighted in that thread.
This excellent clip by Jerry Organ shows two elderly ladies just to Phil Willis’ left. At first glance, they appear to be waving to someone in the motorcade. However, there is a large gap between the Queen Mary follow-up vehicle (6) and the VP car (7). Given that gap, it now becomes obvious to me that the two ladies are gesturing towards an empty space (the gap) in the motorcade. However, the TSBD is on the other side of the street in that direction. And it appears to me that they might be pointing towards the upper floors of the TSBD.
Now, for the fantasy part:
The two elderly ladies (bottom right of the frame) have both just seen the assassin with a rifle in the sixth floor window. The lady next to Phil Willis is pointing at the assassin who is just now firing the first shot. The other lady is trying to get the attention of the motorcycle cops by waving her handkerchief in front of his face with her left hand and pointing at the sixth floor window with her right hand. She almost appears to be having a conniption fit. But their efforts are too little, too late. The president is shot before they can get anyone’s attention. After the assassination is over, the two ladies decide to not get involved and are never heard from by the authorities. In their views, the assassin was caught and there was no significant reason in their minds for them to get involved. Plus they were scared of potential consequences of coming forward with their accounts, like many of the other witnesses were.
There is the Reader’s Digest version of this fantasy. I will be making the full story available (for a nominal fee) if there is enough demand to make it worth the effort.
Here’s a peek at the Royell-esque twist (challenge) at the end: Prove me wrong…