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Post by Arjan Hut on Nov 13, 2022 4:22:45 GMT -5
( Back to Erasing the Past) What did Tom Alyea see, what might have been filmed? Well, this for instance:  "Alyea was the Dallas photographer who was the first civilian on the sixth floor on November 22, 1963. He told Alan Eaglesham that when the police first found the shells, they were within a hand towel of each other. Which means they could not have been ejected by the rifle found on that floor. But Tom also said that they were then lifted up and dropped on the floor and this was the arrangement that was then photographed by the police." (James DiEugenio, The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today, p. 94) ( Back to Erasing nr. 66) |
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Post by Arjan Hut on Aug 8, 2023 4:49:33 GMT -5
 This is what the sniper's nest possibly looked like upon discovery (from Eaglesham-article)
The eventual sniper's nest as it entered the official record. More room for a sniper.
Read the entire article in our reading room:
(The Sniper's Nest by Allan Eaglesham)
A snippet from the article describing the lost footage:
When the call went out that the “sniper’s nest ” had been discovered, police Captain Will Fritz
and Tom Alyea were only 20 to 30 feet away. Alyea followed Fritz, and
described the discovery of three shell casings as follows:
“The casings were clustered inside the enclosure...I filmed them from the window box position
but did not enter the enclosure...The lowest box in the barricade allowed me to look over and see
the casings below, but I was not able to film th em while looking through the viewfinder of the
camera. I set my lens at five feet and held the camera over the box and got my shot...(A)ll three
casings could have been covered by a small hand towel...I asked Captain Fritz if I could go
behind the barricade and get a close up of the casings. He said “No,” and proceeded to enter the
enclosure, gather up the casings, and hold them over the low box for me to get my close-up
shot...He did not return them to the floor, but turned and walked toward the boxes at the
shooting site and visually examined the placement and view down Elm Street.”
It appears that, in order to assist the newsman obtain a close-up of the cartridge cases, Captain
Fritz compromised the crime scene and handled vital evidence in cavalier fashion—possibly
smudging fingerprints on the cartridge cases.
Regarding when and by whom the cartridge cases were replaced, apparently randomly, on the
floor, Alyea said:
“I never saw the casings again after Fritz put them in his pocket. Obviously he gave them to
Studebaker when Studebaker was led to the sniper’s nest, with the instructions to include them in
shots of the crime scene. Fritz did not go with Studebaker, he stayed with us, watching Day
dusting the rifle.”
After the discovery of the “sniper’s nest,” Captain Fritz assigned two uniformed officers to
guard the location, then ordered a search of the seventh floor, which yielded nothing of interest.
At this point, Alyea removed the roll of film from his movie camera and dropped it to a locked-
out colleague; within 20 minutes, pictures from the sixth floor were flashed around the world.
However, without Alyea’s explanation of the film footage, its enormous significance went largely
unrecognized; Alyea later discovered that key shots were edited out and lost. He never saw
the footage of the undisturbed “sniper’s nest,” of the cartridge cases on the floor, or of the
cartridge cases in Fritz’s hand.
related:
527 Photo of wrapping paper bag in situ
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Post by Arjan Hut on Aug 8, 2023 6:28:43 GMT -5
From the same article comes this interesting information: It is nothing short of a tragedy that the corroborative movie footage is missing. However, even after nearly 40 years, Alyea remains hopeful that it will be discovered in an archive. It is noteworthy that Captain Fritz requested copies of Alyea’s footage. Mr. Alyea theorizes that this provided the information needed to reconstruct the “rifle-rest” boxes for photographing on Monday, November 25. Is it mere coincidence that this footage is now lost?  |
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Post by Arjan Hut on Oct 21, 2023 6:27:14 GMT -5
Now absorb that Tom Alyea not only corroborated Mooney's claim Capt. Fritz picked up the shells, he claimed he filmed Fritz doing it. Of course, many, if not most, of those looking into this matter, assume Alyea's footage of Fritz picking up the shells has been destroyed. But I don't believe this is true. In 2010, while watching the History Channel, I saw a segment from Alyea's film which I had seen previously in an altered form. This previously-seen footage had inexplicably clipped off the bottom of the footage. A still from this slightly less-butchered image is presented below.  Well, this shows Fritz bent over by where the third shell was located, with something in his hand. He has turned to his right to discuss this something, moreover, with an assistant, presumably Det. Sims or Boyd. And here is a close-up view of this something...which is visible by the left jaw of Fritz's assistant.  (text and images from Pat Speer, Chapter 4: Unsmoking the gun) |
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