03-06-2011, 02:55 PM
I neglected to mention at least one thing. I may have said this in a previous post, but it's getting a bit fuzzy, because I have also written several long memos-to-file on all this stuff, and can't be sure of what I said and when I said it.
The first installment of the JFK-themed "Stover Hour" programs featured a camera expert. They talked about the Moorman Polaroid, the Bell and Howell Zapruder used, and a few other cameras. This expert also works at the BRass Armadillo. He's a young guy with a booth there and a large collection of vintage cameras.
I spoke to him for a while this past Tuesday, after the show I participated in. He appears to be the missing link, in a sense. Like Stover, he has a passing interest in the JFK case, and somehow he got to know Mary Moorman. This may go back a few years, I don't know. He told me he emails her regularly, and apparently they chit-chat about all sorts of trivial matters, like mowing the lawn.
At some point, as I understand it, he told Stover about this connection. And that, apparently, is how Mrs. Moorman's appearance at the Brass Armadillo came to be. I don't sense anything particularly suspicious, only curious, and am content to accept that the only slight-of-hand has to do with selling the original Moorman Polaroid. It could involve large sums of money. If it were me I wouldn't want to publicize it.
That said...another oddity, heretofore unmentioned, is that while the Brass Armadillo, or Stover, or someone offered to (and did) pay the expenses of Mrs. Moorman and her husband to come to Colorado, they elected to drive rather than fly. I've never made the drive but it must take a couple of days. Maybe they don't like to fly, maybe they enjoy long drives (especially with someone else paying for gas)...I don't know. It seems odd. I'd fly especially at age 78. Probably nothing.
The first installment of the JFK-themed "Stover Hour" programs featured a camera expert. They talked about the Moorman Polaroid, the Bell and Howell Zapruder used, and a few other cameras. This expert also works at the BRass Armadillo. He's a young guy with a booth there and a large collection of vintage cameras.
I spoke to him for a while this past Tuesday, after the show I participated in. He appears to be the missing link, in a sense. Like Stover, he has a passing interest in the JFK case, and somehow he got to know Mary Moorman. This may go back a few years, I don't know. He told me he emails her regularly, and apparently they chit-chat about all sorts of trivial matters, like mowing the lawn.
At some point, as I understand it, he told Stover about this connection. And that, apparently, is how Mrs. Moorman's appearance at the Brass Armadillo came to be. I don't sense anything particularly suspicious, only curious, and am content to accept that the only slight-of-hand has to do with selling the original Moorman Polaroid. It could involve large sums of money. If it were me I wouldn't want to publicize it.
That said...another oddity, heretofore unmentioned, is that while the Brass Armadillo, or Stover, or someone offered to (and did) pay the expenses of Mrs. Moorman and her husband to come to Colorado, they elected to drive rather than fly. I've never made the drive but it must take a couple of days. Maybe they don't like to fly, maybe they enjoy long drives (especially with someone else paying for gas)...I don't know. It seems odd. I'd fly especially at age 78. Probably nothing.
Peter Lemkin Wrote:John, Thanks for the long explanation, which I didn't find dull, at all. It now seems more mysterious than my first reaction. I think your speculation may be right on target. She further hides some of her reason for apparent 'calm' and 'peace' [no problems since 11/22/63] behind her strong religious beliefs, which I have no reason to doubt.
Some think much of the importance of where [EXACTLY] Moorman was at the moment she took the photo. I find that a somewhat trivial point, and if she, as she said, had once stepped into the street and then back away, I know I might have a hard time remembering where I was for a certain photo.
Still hard to understand is how a guy who does Antique shows also does Dallas material and got to have Moorman on his show....weird. But what isn't about this case.
I do think that Hill might have embellished her story some, but on the threats it seems to ring more true, to me, than Moorman's "its all been a picnic" attitude.
What, to me, is VERY important and goes to the complicity of the SS is what the limo did, in terms of slowing and/or stopping. She was not pressed on that - or anything else, for that matter. It was a real softball game, not that I'd wish to 'grill' her - only go over some points enough that a definitive answer was obtained.
That little letter or note attachment is very interesting and perhaps one more example [of the nearly 100 to my count] of some pre-knowledge of the assassination floating around.