Can anyone identify the flowering shrub at the back, and if so what is the months this shrub flowers, maybe, it might help to know.

Because if it is a shrub that flowers in the winter then we might be able to determine sun positions, or raise questions like why is he wearing a t-shirt in winter, etc.

I dunno just a thought.

Whats also interesting to note is that this photo is allegedly taken in the backyard of Georges de Mohrenschidt. Here's some of his interesting connections:

1. Identified by his wife as being a "Nazi spy" in America.
2. Best friend of Lee Harvey Oswald. Weird friendship: a Nazi spy and a "communist".
3.Employee of of Pantepec Oil, owned by the Buckley family. William Buckley, a close friend of CIA man E. Howard Hunt, founded the Young Americans for Freedom. A member of this was Senator John Tower, a hardline anti-communist, who signed all the waivers to allow Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald to return to America, despite Oswald's "defection."
4. Affiliated with the Howard Hughes organization. Another affiliated of this was Robert Maheu, who used it to fund the joint CIA-Mafia Bay of Pigs invasion. Maheu was on the board of directors of the First Intercontinental Development Corporation (FIDCO).
5. Friend of Clint Murchinson, who was also on the board of directors of FIDCO. Murchinson was connected to Genovese crime family, financier of the American Nazi party, friend of J. Edgar Hoover, and was extremely anti-Kennedy.
6. Friend of William Grace. Grace's son. J. Peter, worked with former Nazi spymaster Reinhard Gehlen, who was involved in many anti-Communist crusades. One friend of J. Peter was Frederick Flick (involved with I.G. Farben), whose legal representative was Carl Byvoir, who also represented the Howard Hughes organization!
7. His family managed Nobel Oil, whose legal representation was John McCloy. McCloy was a consultant to I.G. Farben and was on the Warren Commission.
8. Employee of Humble Oil, run by Prescott Bush, who among other things had dealings with I.G. Farben.
9. His cousin, the Baron Constantine Maydell, worked for the Abwehr under Reinhard Gehlen.
10.Introduced Oswald to Michael and Ruth Paine. Michael Paine worked at Bell Aviation under Walter Dorenberger, a former Nazi rocket scientist. Ruth Paine got Oswald the job at the book depository.
11.Member of the Dallas Council On World Affairs and The Crusade For A Free Europe. Other members include George Bush, Clint Murchinson, H.L. Hunt, and Abraham Zapruder, and Mr. Byrd, the owner of the Book Depository.
12.Married Jeanne LeGon, the former business partner of Abraham Zapruder.

After carefully viewing all frames there is not gun from the driver if you look closely is the reflection of the sun on the second drivers head i know it looks like his arm is sticking out on driver one and with the background kinda seems like there he is holding an object but there is no gun there.

but nice frame set tho now i wonder if with some sort of new technology we can actually see a the bullet trajectory and unsolved this mystery once and for all.

Sirs:
I have just discovered (and joined!) this site and I have to say this is the most congenial thread I have ever read. In true gentlemanly fashion, no one is criticised here; regardless of how "out there" his theories are. I commend you all.

That being said, I would like to contribute an observation on the famous backyard photo of Life magazine cover fame that, as far as I know, has not been discussed here or anywhere else; even though it sticks out like a "sore thumb". (pardon my pun, as you shall soon see)

Try this at home. Take your left hand and try holding a bar of soap (or a rifle) lengthwise in your hand and, looking in a mirror, align that hand so that the back of the hand cannot be seen and the four fingers are visible and straightened, mimicking Oswald's left hand in the photo. Difficult pose making the back of the hand disappear whilst the fingers are straight, isn't it?

Now for the real question. How much of your thumb is visible to you? Next, look at our favourite backyard photo (rifle gripped by forestock in left hand). Quite a bit more of Lee's thumb visible than yours, correct? I have estimated that, if Lee had average sized hands (which one would assume of someone of his stature), his thumb would have to be almost eight inches long for this much of his thumb to be visible in that position above the rifle.

Once again, excellent and informative thread and the congeniality is very refreshing.

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