From - Sun May 18 23:11:14 1997 Path: winter.erols.com!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.comm.net!news.comm.net!not-for-mail From: Anthony Marsh Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated Subject: Re: Badgeman ad nauseum Date: 17 May 1997 21:15:17 -0500 Organization: The Puzzle Palace Lines: 90 Sender: jmcadams@news.comm.net Approved: aja@thuntek.net Message-ID: <337E5878.B107C943@erols.com> References: <33790B9B.5DE25329@erols.com> <01bc607a$37656600$23609ecf@host05.techville.com> <5lj3od$c8o$1@nnrp01.primenet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: able.comm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Received-On: 17 May 1997 21:17:21 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b3 [en] (Win95; I) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Status: O Xref: winter.erols.com alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated:8603 John McAdams wrote: > > Greg Jaynes wrote: > > : Anthony Marsh wrote in article > : <33790B9B.5DE25329@erols.com>... > > : I know where Badgeman is in the photo and where he would have > : to be along the fence. Exactly. > > : I know where the President was at at the time of the headshot > : and Z-313 and on Elm street. Exactly > > : I can see with my own eyes that the wall is in the way from Badge Man > : at the instant of the Moorman photo. Which, since you probably don't > : know it is the same instant of the supposed smoke from the Badge Man > : firing. > > I've stood in the "Badgeman" position, and you're absolutely right. > > .John Simple geometry proves that a bullet could be fired from the Badgeman position and hit JFK's head. The bullet would fly over the retaining wall, not hit it. For the purposes of this proof I am using the benchmark elevation of 100.0' at the top of the curb, center of radius, south side of elm street extension, as per the HSCA map. The elevation on the ground at the corner of the fence (159,320) is 96.5'. The next reading north along the fence at (200.5,318) is 97.1'. Thus there is a rise of .6' over about 41'. I place Badgeman's barrel tip about 18 feet north of the corner of the fence at (177,319). The ground elevation there would be about 96.8'. I estimate that the weapon was about 8 feet above the ground when we take into account the fact that the fence was 5 feet high and supposedly we can see Badgeman's entire upper torso above the fence. That places the elevation of the barrel at 96.8+8=104.8'. JFK's right temple is about 100 feet away from the tip of the barrel. I estimate the elevation of the road at about 89'. The highest point on JFK's head where a bullet could enter is about 4 feet above the ground, so the end point of the trajectory is at an elevation of 89+4=93'. The far edge of the retaining wall which intersects the trajectory is 34' away from the barrel tip. The elevation on the top of that section of the retaining wall is 100.2'. We need to know the crossover point at which a straight line from the barrel tip to the President's head would intersect elevation 100'. If the elevation above 100' at the barrel tip were equal to the elevation below 100' at the President's head, the crossover point would be 50'. This would represent the point at which a bullet going in a straight line would strike the retaining wall. If the retaining wall were close to the barrel tip, the bullet would pass over it. The equations follow for this simplified example as: 4.8+4.8=9.6 9.6/4.8=2 100/2=50 But in the instant case, the differences in elevation are not equal and so the equations result in difference results: 4.8+7=11.8 11.8/4.8=2.46 100/2.46=40.65 This is the crossover point on the elevation 100'. But of course we need to know the clearance over the retaining wall. Since we now know that the bullet will clear the retaining wall as 34 feet is less than 40.65 feet, we can plot a trajectory from the barrel tip to the crossover point. 40.65/34=1.2 4.8/1.2=4 4.8-4=0.8' So at the point over the retaining wall, the bullet would be at elevation 100.8'. Since the elevation of the top of the retaining wall is 100.2', the bullet would clear the retaining wall by 0.6'. You can use this method and plug in different values for the Badgeman position. You will be able to produce values at which the bullet can not clear the retaining wall. But you are constrained by logic in some cases. You can not move JFK's position by more than a few inches. You can not move the retaining wall. You should not place the barrel tip at less than 6 feet, which is what happens when you just stand there and look over the fence. QED Anthony Marsh