Mr. McCLOY. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. Is the first frame we have on the Zapruder film.
Mr. DULLES. It is only to get the speed and distance here.
Mr. McCLOY. It has no relation to any shots.
Mr. DULLES. No relation to shots. Speed and distance.
Mr. SPECTER. It is the first frame we have where the marksman has his
last clear shot of the back of the President's neck before it passes
under the tree without adjustment. Is that correct, Mr. Shaneyfelt?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. That is correct. What letter designations did you want?
Mr. SPECTER. Mark 161, frame 161, with the letter designation X, if you
will, please.
Mr. SHANEYFELT. And 313?
Mr. SPECTER. With the letter designation Y.
Mr. McCLOY. The record ought to show the two points are the point which
you merely calculated the speed at which the car is going, isn't that
right?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. That is correct.
Mr. McCLOY. Yes.
Mr. DULLES. Between those two points the car went at an average speed
of 11.2 miles an hour?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. That is correct. Between point X and Y on Exhibit No.
883 the speed of the car was determined to be an average speed of 11.2
miles per hour.
Mr. DULLES. How long did the car take to go that distance, do you know,
translated into time?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. 8.3 seconds.
Mr. DULLES. 8.3 seconds.
Mr. SPECTER. What motion pictures, if any, were taken during the
reenactment?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. During the reenactment the black-and-white photographs
were made from Zapruder's position with a Speedgraphic camera and we
also took motion pictures with Mr. Zapruder's camera from Zapruder's
position with the car in the fixed locations as they were established
with the car just stationary in those locations.
After establishing all those points and making these film records
of it, we then had the car proceed along that Elm Street route at
approximately 11 miles per hour, and filmed it with Mr. Zapruder's
camera loaded with color film from Mr. Zapruder's position and
simultaneously photographed it with Mr. Nix's camera from Mr. Nix's
position, and Mrs. Muchmore's camera from Mrs. Muchmore's position, and
this was done twice.
(Off the record.)
Mr. SPECTER. The last question was about what movies and stills you
took?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. We haven't discussed them all yet.
Mr. SPECTER. Were any other movies taken or photographs taken in
addition to those which you heretofore described?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. Yes; after positioning the car in the street at the
specific locations and making the movies with the Zapruder, Nix, and
Muchmore cameras with the car running at 11 miles an hour on the route,
I then went to the sixth-floor window and mounted the camera on the
rifle, and photographs were made with black and white film motion
pictures of the car in the fixed positions from frame 161 through frame
positions 313. The car was stopped at each position. The individuals
and the car were positioned by Mr. Gauthier on the street using the
Zapruder pictures to reposition the individuals in the car, and motion
pictures were made of the car sitting in those various positions.
After this the car was driven at 11 miles an hour along the route and
photographs were made through the rifle scope with a 16-mm. motion
picture camera following the car as a target, as the car drove down the
assassination route.
Following this, there were three runs made on black and white film.
Then color film was loaded in the camera and it was again photographed
on color film, 16 mm. with the car traveling at 11 miles an hour and
the scope of the rifle following the car as the target.
This completed all the photographs that were made at the assassination
site.
Mr. SPECTER. Was a subsequent photograph taken in the garage which you
previously identified as the railway express garage?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. That is correct.
Mr. SPECTER. Will you repeat, even though you have heretofore mentioned
them, the angles between the spot on the back of President Kennedy's
neck which was marked with a white chalk mark and the muzzle of the
rifle when the car was positioned at frame 210?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. The angle, based on the horizontal at frame 210, to the
rifle in the window was 21°34´.
Mr. SPECTER. What was the comparable angle at frame 225?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. 20°11´.
Mr. SPECTER. So what would be the average angle then between those two
points?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. The average angle, allowing for the 3°9´ street
grade results in an average angle between frame 210 and frame 225 of
17°43´30´´.
Mr. SPECTER. And that is the average angle from the muzzle to President
Kennedy as he sat in the car or President Kennedy's stand-in as he sat
in the car?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. That is correct. To the wound entrance.
Mr. SPECTER. Is the average angle of 17°43´30´´ measured from the
muzzle to the President's body as the President would be seated in the
car?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. That is out on the street in those frame positions,
yes. It is measured to the point of the wound on the back of the
President.
Mr. SPECTER. I now hand you a photograph which has been marked as
Commission Exhibit No. 903 and ask you if you know who the photographer
was?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. Yes; I took this photograph.
Mr. SPECTER. When was that photograph taken?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. It was taken Sunday afternoon, May 24, 1964.
Mr. SPECTER. Is there a white string which is apparent in the
background of that photograph?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. That is correct.
Mr. SPECTER. What is the angle of declination of that string?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. That string was placed along the wall by the surveyor
at an angle of 17°43´30´´.
Mr. SPECTER. Did the surveyor make that placement in your presence?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. He did.
Mr. SPECTER. Were the stand-ins for President Kennedy and Governor
Connally positioned in the same relative positions as those occupied by
President Kennedy and Governor Connally depicted in the Zapruder films?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. Yes; these positions were approximately the position of
the President and Governor Connally in the Zapruder films in the area
around frame 225 as they go behind the signboard and as they emerge
from the signboard.
Mr. SPECTER. Was the rod which is held in that photograph positioned
at an angle as closely parallel to the white string as it could be
positioned?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. Yes.
Mr. SPECTER. And through what positions did that rod pass?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. The rod passed through a position on the back of
the stand-in for the President at a point approximating that of the
entrance wound, exited along about the knot of the tie or the button of
the coat or button of the shirt, and the end of the rod was inserted
in the entrance hole on the back of Governor Connally's coat which was
being worn by the stand-in for Governor Connally.
Mr. SPECTER. And was Governor Connally's stand-in seated in the
position where the point of exit would have been below the right nipple
at the approximate point described by Governor Connally's doctors?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. That is correct.
Senator COOPER. May I ask a couple of questions?
Am I correct in assuming that you have made these determinations about
the degree of the angle of the trajectory of the bullet at the time the
President was struck, locating the position of the President in the car
on the one hand, and the location of the rifle at the time the shots
were fired?
Mr. SHANEYFELT. The location of the wound, you mean the angle of the
wound?
Senator COOPER. Yes.