A Shadowy Figure?Two photos, taken very close to when a shot is heard, is kind of important to determine when the shot is heard.
Betzner was NOT called by the WC, and his photo was kept from the public for 4 years - it was NOT released until 1967 in
LIFE magazine along side Willis 5. Both images show a shadowy figure at the retaining wall.
[Betzner photo is on the right]HSCA"The photographic evidence panel examined photographs make by Phillip Willis of the area of the grassy knoll and concluded
that a photograph taken by Willis did show a person standing behind the concrete wall on the knoll."
"According to the results of the panel's photographic enhancement and analysis, the figure in the Willis photograph was
consistent with that of an adult approximately 5 feet 6 inches to 6 feet in height and wearing dark clothing.
The panel concluded that movement by the object was consistent with the presence of a human being."
The photographic evidence panel also noted that in the first Willis Photograph, which shows the person standing behind the
concrete wall, there is visible, near the region of the hands of the person at the wall, "a very distinct straight-line feature,"
which extends from lower right to upper right. Nevertheless, because of the blur of the object in the photograph, the panel was not
able to determine the actual length of the object and could not conclude whether it was or was not a weapon.
Rosemary Willis | HSCAThe committee interviewed Willis' daughter, Rose Mary Willis, on November 8, 1978, at her home in Dallas. Ms. Willis stated that she was present with her father and a sister in the area of the grass section of the plaza at
the time of the Presidential motorcade on November 22, 1963. The other was a person who was standing just behind the
concrete wall near the triple underpass. "That person appeared to "disappear the next instant."
Ms. Willis further described the location of this person as the corner section of the white concrete wall between the area of photographer
Abraham Zapruder's right side and the top of the concrete stairway leading up to the center of the grassy knoll. Ms. Willis said
she was aware of three shots being fired.
She gave no information on the direction or location of the shots, but stated that her father became upset when the
policemen in the area appeared to run away from where he thought the shots came from; that is; they were running away
from the grassy knoll. HSCA VOL XII II.
Harold Weisberg"As Willis wrote, I am not alone in detecting alterations on the negatives themselves:
Two seem pretty obvious one is not obvious in the published official exhibits but would be in any kind of decent
prints even black and white. It is a black mark that seems to be painted atop the wall ahead of the motorcade.
It is our the north side of Elm Street to the west of the depository and Zapruder, the area of the grassy knoll.
The size of and rough contours of the mark are consistent with the upper part of a man's body.
What the mark is or was, what it may hide can only be conjectured
(Whitewash II page 205) HSCAQuote from Photographic Panel report..."Committee investigators located many of the suggested films and photographs however,some items were never located,
i.e., the Babushka Lady Film, a color photograph by Norman Similas and "the original negative of the Betzner photograph."