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Researcher and computer animator Dale Myers has argued that the measurements of the grassy knoll area require the alleged figure to have been in an impossible position to fire a weapon at the motorcade, saying "if [the Badge Man were] truly a human being of average height and build, was located 32 feet [9.8 m] behind the fence line and elevated ...
The term "grassy knoll" was first used to describe this area by reporter Albert Merriman Smith, known as Smitty, of UPI, who was riding in the press "pool car" following 150 to 200 yards (140 to 180 m) behind Kennedy's car and had use of the car's radio-telephone. [17]
John Craig and Philip Rogers's 1992 book The Man on the Grassy Knoll eventually connected Charles Harrelson, Charles Rogers, and Chauncey Holt by alleging that they were the three tramps photographed in Dealey Plaza. [20] According to that book, Harrelson and Rogers were sharpshooters on the grassy knoll who were assisted by Holt. [20]
Nov. 22, 1963: The Grassy Knoll and Elm Street looking west, Dealey Plaza, following President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Nov. 22, 1963: Grassy Knoll, Dealey Plaza, following President ...
The grassy knoll and its picket fence are visible in the background. [note 7] As the motorcade left Dealey Plaza, some witnesses sought cover, [90] and others joined police officers to run up the grassy knoll in search of a shooter. [75] [91] No shooter was found behind the knoll's picket fence. [92]
On the grassy knoll, some have claimed to identify as many as four different human figures, while others dismiss these indistinct images as either trees or shadows. Most often, one figure has been dubbed the "Badge Man" as it seems to resemble a uniformed police officer wearing a badge.
A modern version of the discredited grassy knoll conspiracy theory — which posited that Lee Harvey Oswald was aided in assassinating President John F. Kennedy by another shooter atop a nearby ...
James Earl Files (born January 24, 1942), also known as James Sutton, [a] is an American former prisoner.In 1994, while serving a 50-year sentence for the 1991 attempted murders of two police officers, Files gave interviews stating that he was the "grassy knoll shooter" in the 1963 assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy.