No. It is about what you need to do in order to justify calling it "bats_it crazy". (I would write it out in full but it comes out as batspombleprofglidnoctobuns).
A sight line is a sightline. The zoom lens changes perspective but not sightlines. Changing focal length does not unblock parts that were previously blocked.
In your zoom "correction" you have JFK too far to the right.
That's where you have Kennedy and where he ends up with the proper perspective and line-of-sight. I discovered you had Kennedy pressed about six inches into the seat-back. So the President, per your Theory, is too far back, not too far to his right.
In z193 the sightline from Zapruder blocks up to the right edge of the left trunk hand-hold:
I have more confidence where the back tire and door seams are in that view than where I used to place the hand-grips. I've since slightly shifted the hand-grip location a few times, based on better information and photos. Without my own direct measurements (or someone who takes measurements and documents exactly where they start from and go to), I can't vouch for it.
Here's where your back tire and door leave Kennedy.
Yes. You might use this as a guide:
Right. So we know how that person on that particular day had his knees high up, as least the moment the photo was taken. That has no more to do with how Connally's knees might have been than the man in the back seat has to do with how JFK sat. What if the door was closed and leaning one legs against it was helpful.
This photograph shows Kennedy with both knees together and against the car interior. By your definition, the President is a eunuch. There is no sign that Connally's thighs are sharply angled up.
I'm going to amend my model of your Theory with some or all of this:
- Distance between JFK's exit wound and JBC's spine about 30-32 inches.
- Connally a bit lower
- Connally's head aligned with the side window, while being over as far as possible to the side of the car
- Connally's torso twisted
- Raise up Connally's left knee
- Slope of 21 degrees relative to the car
I won't make Connally's head disturbingly smaller.