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We will now focus on the other side of Elm Street. It's much more difficult because many witnesses were never identified. Thus, in this photo of
Robert E. Croft, one person has been identified, it is F. Lee Mudd. He heard three shots that came, he said, the TSBD. [
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Photo recadrée de Robert Earl Croft
Following the witnesses located on this side of Elm Street is better known. To locate them we will again use a picture of the famous movie double 8mm Abraham Zapruder (Zf-151).
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.The First identifiable person - on the left with the hard hat - is A. J. Millican, a Howard Brennan Construction colleague. He heard three shots that came from the intersection of Houston Street and Elm Street, then two more shots from the colonnades and finally three others, who came from the same direction, but a little further however. [
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The person at the right Millican has not been identified.
Then we Aurelia Alonzo, who accompanied Mary Woodward that day. She did not testify.
Then we find Mary Woodward, reporter at the Dallas Morning News. She wrote an account of what she saw just the facts, for the publication of the next day. She was later interviewed by the FBI. She will say they heard three shots, which came from behind her and to her right, so probably the fence. [
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N.B. Millican, Alonzo and Woodward are visible in photo # 6 driven by James Altgens (see below).
Zf-151 du film de Zapruder sur laquelle elle est à demi-masquée par le panneau Stemmons.
We then Anne Donaldson and Maggie Brown, they were also coming with Woodward; followed by Jane Berry, employed at the Scott-Foresman editor, on the 3rd floor of TSBD. She heard three shots, without specifying where they came from. [
Source] Jane Berry was accompanied on the right by Betty Thornton, also employed at the Scott-Foresman editor. It will bring only very few details, she heard shots without seeing them reach the President Kennedy. [
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Then we Peggy Burney, who did not testify.
Follow two men, John Templin, a road which heard two shots, then Ernest Brandt, who heard three shots. They did not testify.
The woman located to the right of Brandt John Newman. She heard two shots, which, she said, came from his right, so, presumably, towards the fence. [
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Finally there is a group of 5 people:
- Karen Westbrook, employed at South Western Publishing located in TSBD, it speaks only of the first shot. [Source]
- June Dishong, who clearly heard three shots she recorded in a diary which was found after his death in 1998.
- Gloria Calvary, also speaks only the first shot. [
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- Karan Hicks, it also speaks of the first shot.
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- Carol Reed, it does not speak of the number of shots. [
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These three people were like Karen Westbrook cited above, employed in South Western Publishing.
Following Elm Street is visible from the photograph of Charles L. Bronson, which allowed us to locate Toni Foster. We will detail the witnesses, starting from right to left. Carol Reed, framed by blue sky, was mentioned earlier in the Zf-151 image of the Zapruder film on which it is half hidden by the Stemmons panel.
To the right of Carol Reed, there is the Chism family.
Marvin Faye Chism heard two shots came from behind her.[
Source] Her husband, Arthur John Chism, also heard two shots. He looked behind him to see where they could come. [Source] In his statement to the FBI, he speaks of two shots and may be three, but no more. He explained that he turned to look behind him but he saw nothing suspicious. [
Source]Their son older than three years at the material time did not testify.
Then there is a two teenagers, unidentified, and one that has been called "Dark complected Man" (DCM), which has not been identified.
Next we come to "the man with the umbrella" (Umbrella Man), Louie Steven Witt. He heard three shots or more, and can not tell where they came from. [
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Then, at the foot of the lamppost ago Cheryl McKinnon, a journalism student. She heard three shots, which came in her from the fence. She turned in that direction, she then saw small clouds of smoke but no one was visible (San Diego Star-News November 22, 1983).
The woman next to her was not identified.
The against an image of 16mm film Dave Wiegman, Cheryl McKinnon lying on the floor (after the shooting).
In the background, Faye Chism carrying his son in his arms.
Cheryl McKinnon - Dave Wiegman film
finally, we have the Newman family.
William Eugene Newman heard two shots, which came in his view of the fence.. [
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His testimony is confirmed in a statement made to the FBI. [
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Gayle Newman, his wife, heard three shots. It does not specify the source of the fire. [
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His testimony is confirmed in a statement made to the FBI. [
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Both Newman children, aged 2 and 4 years, were of course not testify. But they made a good numbers of newspapers lying on the grass with their parents covering.
Here against a photo of the scene taken by Franck Cancellare.
Behind the Newman family, perched on the pedestal, there is Abraham Zapruder and his secretary Marilyn Sitzman.
Zapruder heard two or three shots. [
Source]According Zapruder, based on what he heard, he thought the shots came from behind him. [
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Sitzman, meanwhile, never testified. However, John Wiseman spoke with her just after the shooting and she told him that the shots came from TSBD. [
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We end with Emmett Hudson, who was on the steps leading to the fence. He heard three shots that came from above and behind him. [
Source]Before the Warren Commission, he will be more accurate; the shots came from above and behind the limousine. [Source] Hudson also specify that the shots could have come from TSBD. [
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Emmett Hudson - Photo Philip L. Willis (portion recadrée)