JFK Assassination Films

Mar

07

JFK Assassination – NBC Films – Prayer Man & AI – Part 1

JFK Assassination – NBC Films – Prayer Man & AI – Part 1

Updated Mar 16 2026.

I have stated during some interviews that AI could assist us in identifying Prayer Man. Yes I am partisan to Prayer Man being Lee Harvey Oswald. This site shows plenty of evidence supporting that. Without that so called cherry on top. The NBC films.

My intention using AI was trying to see whether I could enhance the images using deblurring and sharpening techniques. I have already that experience of doing that myself n Photoshop, but this time I let what is around for everyone to have a play withHaving some high res images made me have a go at things and see how it pans out. First stop ChatGPT and prompt it about deblurring with AI.

The answers led me to various companies, so here are my first attempts of trying to get a better definition of the people in the Darnell and Wiegman films.

I started with the Dave Wiegman frame that is of the best quality.

First I used PixBin. The result was not too bad, definately more clarity on the steps’ occupants.

Then I used AI Enhancer and this has a much better result for both groups.

Then I used Artguru (free version), which took clarifying people to the next step, too extreme for my liking.

But using the same application again for an earlier Wiegman frame it came out not as ‘choppy’, if you blow it up then you will notice its short-comings, but from afar in the photograph below we can see Sarah Stanton in much greater detail, standing next to Pauline Sanders. Both are positioned next together to the pillar on the right. Otis Williams looks a lot clearer as well being in front of Bill Shelley .

The Truly group in front of the stairs group also benefits from this process.

Not a bad start.

Then Darnell, which is more blurry than Wiegman and also suffers from the low resolution that is only available at this point. I used all of the above apps and did not like the results.

The first one where I thought ‘ok’ was after using Topaz. The frame is from the 6th floor museum video. Is that Oswald’s t-shirt creeping through?

Original screen shot.

And after using Topaz.

Update Mar 16.

I started using Gemini last night. This time I fed 10 frames to it. Is Oswald’s white t-shirt starting to peak though? The additional sharpness also helps differentiating the females who have joined the others on the steps after the shots were fired. The top right corner is still a bit of an enigma.

So in closing after a first few attempts using different of the shelf deblur and sharpening techniques I can state that the results are ok, but there is room for improvement. The technology upgrades and higher resolution footage/images hopefully will become available and yield better results. Just seeing from these attempts what it can already achieve I would be having cold sweats too ;)

Which brings us to the original NBC films and I hope congress woman Anna Paulina Luna can get these released to the National Archives. Doubt this will happen.

To be further explored…..

Apr

25

The Pulse – Pelle Neroth Taylor – Prayer Man – NBC JFK Assassination Films

Book / Dallas Police Department / Dealey Plaza / FBI / HSCA / JFK Assassination / Lee Harvey Oswald / Photography & Film / Podcast / Prayer Man / TSBD

The Pulse – Pelle Noreth Taylor – Prayer Man – NBC JFK Assassination Films

I had the pleasure to speak again with Pelle Neroth Taylor of The Pulse.

Apr

09

Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets: the JFK Files – April 1 2025

ARRB / Book / Dealey Plaza / HSCA / JFK Assassination / Lee Harvey Oswald / Photography & Film / Prayer Man / TSBD

Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets: the JFK Files

Amended April 13th 2025.

Well it was happening on April fools day no less and the irony had not escaped me. That it was in part almost hilarious was something I had not expected. I expected a rather sombre, almost sleep inducingly boring listing of what was still missing. Instead……

During this hearing there were a few who asked some rather funny but very inane questions that were about to turn this thing into a circus of conspiracy entertainment. And of course did the bi-partisan politics come into play as well. It was entertainment only the USA could provide!

Photo: Doug Campbell.

What I had expected was that someone from that panel would list what was still missing from a JFK assassination records release perspective. Malcolm Blunt did some of this by emailing me and which I reposted on the DPUK website. Of all people, in this niche, he could have summarised what was missing and what has been detroyed!

I did forward this, but sadly it was not jumped upon. Unless that is still to come…..?

The records releases and the hearing made me decide to meet up with Malcolm Blunt on April 5th and tape our chats. We had not seen eachother since early Dec 2024. Malcolm is semi-retired and kicks back in a warm sunny destination. However his time Malcolm had something extra to say!

To me the whole shebang was about the NBC fillms by Dave Wiegman and Jimmy Darnell. If there is anything that could throw open the case, which certain individuals aren’t too enamoured about.

Jefferson Morley tweeted his opinion (a baseless one if I may add) the day before the hearing. It appears that Morley and Posner are walking hand in hand on the value of the NBC films. No sources, just opinions.

In summary:

Morley told her it is NOT a definitive piece of evidence. It can be and for that it needs to be investigated.
Morley said it is NOT important to the JFK community. Not true, if there is anything that could collapse the assumption of Lee Harvey Oswald’s guilt it is this.
Morley advised her to drop it. On what basis?
Morley hopes some day NBC will clear the air by making available high-res scans. Some day? How about right now!
Mortley states that NBC is not hiding anything. I beg to differ based on our experience.

Is this a prime example of kicking the can down the road while attempts are made to get the film out for the public to see for themselves?

Then during the hearing, as I was watching it live, Jefferson Morley was speaking about the NBC films again and I wasn’t really clocking all of it but it sounded like a repeat of that tweet. The overall impression I got was that none of the questioners of that panel were well appraissed. They were briefed. Therefor they were informed what to ask. Watch the video of the hearing for yourself. Tell me I am dead wrong! Greg Parker brought this up before me a week or so ago and he is spot on.

The exchange I refer to above goes as follows:

Mr Garcia (49:35) I want to also just so that note that we should follow of course the facts wherever they go. Mr. Morley, in the run-up to this hearing, I know that there was some public reporting about this video that has been referenced. It’s never before seen video of the shooting. Now that video itself is not a secret. I mean, JFK researchers have known about this video for a few years. Is that correct?

Jefferson Morley (49:55): For decades. Yes.

Mr Garcia (49:56): Okay. And the film is not definitive about Oswald’s whereabouts at the time of the incident?

Jefferson Morley (50:03): No. It is not.

Mr Garcia (50:04): Okay. And it’s not regarded as overly important by serious JFK researchers. Would you agree with that?

Jefferson Morley (50:11): Correct.

Mr Garcia (50:11): Okay. And it has never been a factor in major analysis in the causes of JFK assassination. Is that also correct?

Jefferson Morley (50:18): Not in mine and not in any of the researchers I work with.

Mr Garcia (50:22): Okay. Thank you. And I think it’s important to clarify that because I think there’s a lot of speculation and interest in the video, but I think we should be very clear about what the video actually is. Also, I know as it relates to the rollout of the JFK files, it also included a lot of, I think, personal information. Mr. Davisson, I just want to turn to you for a minute.

You’d start to suspect that this was all agenda driven. Time will tell if Morley voices his opinion again.

Near the end of the hearing Representative Luna asked Oliver Stone if he would recommend that the task force send a letter to NBC requesting the Dave Wiegman & Jimmy Darnell films to which he replied in the affirmative. It’s a start, an attempt at least to get the films out in the public domain.

We shall see where this is going. In the mean time expect to be bored to death by opinionated conspiracy theorists and lone nutters just speculate their rear off of what they think and believe.

If(!) the original films arrive at NARA then we are a step closer to obtaining the cherry on top.

The evidence for Oswald’s innocence and his whereabouts during the JFK Assassination is already there!

Feb

17

Marina Oswald: “It’s Lee”

JFK Assassination / Lee Harvey Oswald / Photography & Film / Prayer Man / TSBD

Marina Oswald: “It’s Lee”

By Ed Ledoux and Bart Kamp.

Some photos and text has been added and amended. Feb. 22nd 2019.

In June and July of 2018 the core ROKC members were discussing amongst themselves whether to get in contact with Marina Oswald and ask her what she thought of the whole Prayer Man situation. We agreed to put it forward to her, nothing ventured nothing gained right?

Stan Dane printed one of the better shots of the Wiegman and Darnell films alongside a picture of the book cover and sent these enlargements to her. No photo of Doorway man (a.k.a. Billy Lovelady) was sent to her at any time. Stan did not receive a reply so Ed Ledoux rang her and left a message on her answer machine not expecting to hear back from her. But less than 25 minutes later she rang back. He asked her whether she had received the images and she said she had.

Prayer Man enlargements sent to Marina Oswald. Pic. Stan Dane.

Out Of The Shadows Into The Light Prayer Man book cover. Pic. Stan Dane.

What follows is Ed Ledoux’s story abut this particular phone call:

I wanted Marina Oswald to tell me about that figure seen in the Darnell and Wiegman films Stan Dane had sent to her, a figure who was standing in the dark shadowy top left corner, one whom was labelled Figure J. in drawings by Richard Bernabei.

Occupants front steps of the T.S.B.D. by Richard Bernabei. Click pic. to enlarge.

I felt the need to explain everything first, as she immediately asked what this was all about and began to tell all the details as best as I could relate quickly to her about Weigman and Darnell, the steps, our research and that of others.

Sketch of Prayer Man and Bill Shelley on the front steps of the T.S.B.D. by Richard Bernabei. Click pic. to enlarge.

Sketch of Prayer Man, Billy Lovelady, Otis Williams and Bill Shelley on the front steps of the T.S.B.D. by Richard Bernabei. Click pic. to enlarge.

When I was about to mention Richard Bernabei’s annotated sketches of Weigman from the late 60’s, which were not sent to her, with the unknown figure marked J. she stopped me.

Marina interjected and said “That’s Lee” I was taken aback as she knew exactly what and who I had asked about. She volunteered her answer. I exclaimed “What?” to make sure I had heard her correctly. And she replied to me “It’s Lee.” and did so as quite a matter of fact.

There I was thinking, here is the one person besides Marguerite Oswald whom would know the likeness of Lee better than any armchair detective or internet warrior could. Here she was confirming the identity of her husband and in effect the work done by Sean Murphy until the 50th anniversary of the murder, and now carried on by the ROKC crew as a litmus test in the Kennedy assassination.

When I asked Marina about the images of Prayer Man to Lee she said, “Yes, seen it many times” like it was old news.
Well I was dazzled by her quick wit and retorts. She is no slouch when it comes to her late husband and the case.

She said “They have dropped the assumed part, and just say he is guilty” so I explained the FBI and Justice Dept. have both closed the case and retroactively declared Lee guilty.
I asked if she knew of a way to help and she understood the problem.
She wanted to know my age, she sharing hers first like a lady. I shared mine and she said “Good, you’re young enough to get something done.”
I told her about the book, “Prayer Man, Out Of The Shadows And Into The Light” by Stan Dane.
Marina asked when it was published. I said it has been out three and a half years.
When I told her what information it had about documenting Lee on the first floor and in the vestibule, she responded resolutely, “I don’t need to be convinced.”
Marina was kind and soft spoken, wanted me to help her children who suffer the most by having a father wrongfully called a murderer. No jury, no trial, no full investigation, yet the United States legal system allows this.

As Marina Oswald called me back in such a short time after I had left a message I did not record this call. But I did call her back again two weeks later, this was after I sent her Stan Dane’s book and asked her to give me her blessing to what she had said to me two weeks prior. In this conversation she stated that she had not read the Stan Dane book, as there were too many characters involved and that all they had to do is compare two faces; Lee and Billy Lovelady. The rest didn’t matter. Listen to the short recording below.

NBC Universal holds the original footage of Darnell and Wiegman from that day in 1963 when The President, John F. Kennedy, was murdered.
These original 16 mm films contain much better detail than the circulating ones. The copies that are around were transferred to 3/4 inch VHS tape nearly 60 years ago and are overall not very clear due to the generational gap and the artefacts it inherited due to the transfer.

Poor quality images allow the weak and timid to say it might be Lee or dispute it, and until better images they retort that they can’t agree it is Oswald, until its shown and proven to be Lee.
Thus the Prayer Man litmus test has enabled ROKC to sample those researchers genuinely looking to end all debate as to Lee’s innocence.
The naysayers dismiss with a wave of the hand the literal mountains of physical and documented evidence that puts Lee on the first floor during the assassination and outside during the shooting.
Naysayers accomplish this by saying the images taken from the films are to blurry.
Blurry yes, but good enough for them to identify Buell Frazier, and Billy Lovelady without second guesses.

I have spoken with Buell Frazier and I got the sense he recognises the figure but cannot allow himself to say what Marina effortlessly stated. “It’s Lee.”

Buell has identified himself in the films.

Buell Frazier in Darnell.

He has said he thought the figure near him called Prayer Man is Bill Shelley, Buell may default to Bill but he also realises Bill left the steps with Billy Lovelady to walk down to the rail yard and knoll area. Buell cant reconcile the figure with the logistics of those present.
I want to show Buell a better image too.

Slowly these things help to settle this important matter. Just over a week ago Bart managed to show a note made by FBI agent James Hosty which clearly stated that “He went to 2nd floor to get coca cola to eat with lunch and returned to 1st floor to eat lunch. Then went outside to watch P. parade.”

This document and the Fritz interrogation notes show that Lee himself is giving his alibi to the police and knowing that Bill Shelley was there with him, only for police authorities to twist things and use it against him.

Lee said he stepped out to see what all the excitement was about as reported by Detective Ed Hicks.
Reporters were documenting this statement.

In his interview shortly before Lee was murdered by Jack Ruby, Postal Inspector Harry Holmes asked about Lee’s alibi.
Specifically that Lee was in the Vestibule or nearing the vestibule when the shooting took place. There is only one vestibule proper. It is between the two outer columns flanking the steps, up to the front door.
That is in part Oswald’s alibi, being out in the vestibule and knowing who else was on the steps.

I wanted to see the best images of those steps and who was in the vestibule and asked for and was granted a license for the Darnell film. Additionally I made an offer to transfer Darnell into 4k or 8k resolution, using the vendor of their choice to perform the scan and at my cost, but I was soon told that the powers that be had denied access to the film.

Rather than provide me the best quality image available NBC asked that I use a high quality format but media that was from a 3/4″ tape circa 1970’s era.
I declined to accept this paltry material.

I thank the folks who helped with the project, especially Bart Kamp, Greg Parker, and Stan Dane who have searched for the original films with me.

Thanks to the fine folks at ROKC I knew beyond a shadow that Lee was Prayer Man and I continued based on evidence that the films were in New York at the NBC ‘archives’ there.
The films are still awaiting a new Executive to allow access to study them.
Greg Parker has sent a public letter asking NBC Universal for the films to be accessed by researchers and students.

We are still waiting their reply.

Thanks to Marina I realised the truth has just begun.

Marina asked me about the films timing, she said it’s important. I explained that the limo is still seen exiting Dealey Plaza in the Dave Wiegman film, which syncs up with Wiegman and then Darnell, so its a matter of seconds.
Marina said that makes Lee innocent.

I agreed,…

I’ve spoke to Marina a few more times to update her on the Prayer Man project and various aspects of the case. I am going to tell her about the Sixth Floor Museums donation they received of a 2k copy of Darnell.
Alan Dale asked Stephen Fagin at the Lancer conference about the film and Fagin told that it can be viewed in the museum’s viewing room, but there is no zooming or slowing the playback there unfortunately.
I had mentioned to her that I would find better footage, as she was not positive NBC would ever allow access. So we are hopeful to have more to discuss in the future.

Nov

23

Tom Alyea

Dallas Police Department / JFK Assassination / Photography & Film / TSBD

Updated March 29th 2019.

Tom Alyea is the WFAA cameraman who managed to get inside the T.S.B.D. and filmed the D.P.D. searching inside and while filming them also recorded other people of interest such as Kent Biffle. And who could forget the Truly and Baker get together on the first floor. I have added a nice video that has an interview of him in the background with a lot of unseen footage. Thanks to Malcolm Blunt for this.

If you want to read his take on what happened inside the T.S.B.D. and especially with the shell casings and the boxes then go HERE (Facts and photos from Connie Kritzberg’s Secrets from the Sixth Floor Window, pp. 39-46 and Alyea’s own addendums).

This Alyea interview provides more insight on the happenings inside the building as well, the rifle i/e and ends with Baker’s so called lunch room confrontation, and I do not agree with his assertion, be that as it may.

Malcolm Blunt was kind enough to send me some documentation from the A.R.R.B. which is quite a dispute regarding the film and its future use and residency. See for yourself. But most interesting is the letter from Alyea to Tom Samoluk of the A.R.R.B. in which he states that the W.C. testimony of Lt. Carl Day and Det. Studebaker, both of the D.P.D., is completely false. This is someone who believes in Oswald’s guilt, but was witness to certain things inside the book depository which were twisted around by the D.P.D.

I for one would love to see a HD version of the film in its most complete form, who knows maybe one day……

: Jeremy Gun to Laura Naide June 27 1996

: Jeremy Gunn to Tom Alyea July 3 1996-1

: Jeremy Gunn to Tom Alyea July 3 1996-2

: Jeremy Gunn to Tom Alyea July 8 1996-1

: Jeremy Gunn to Tom Alyea July 8 1996-2

: Tom Alyea to Jeremy Gun July 15 1996-1

: Tom Alyea to Jeremy Gun July 15 1996-2

: Tom Alyea to Jeremy Gun July 15 1996-3

: Tom Alyea to Samoluk Aug 15 1997

: Tom Alyea and 6th Fl Museum Aug 21 1997

: Tom Alyea to Tilly 23 Jan 1998

: Jeremy Gunn to Stephen Tilly Jan 27 1998

Dec

28

James Darnell RIP

JFK Assassination / Photography & Film

Fellow ROKC member Vinny brought me up to date with Jimmy Darnell’s death. It happened late Sept and was unnoticed until now.

See a brief video HERE

There’s a brief shot of Jimmy Darnell along the east side of the TSBD.

I managed to get hold of him on the telephone last year, but he was not up for talking about that day.

R.I.P. Jimmy Darnell

Oct

19

The Death Of Prayer Woman part-2

JFK Assassination / Lee Harvey Oswald / Photography & Film / Prayer Man / TSBD

So the lads have been back at it again, this time using the Wiegman film. After being obliterated by my previous post Duncan MacRae, Carig Lamson and Brian Doyle aka as Ralph Yates on Amazon and Albert Doyle (the dead father’s account) thought they’d give their verbal excrement technique another go.

Let’s compare pix shall we? In this case size does matter!

The Chris Davidson GIF, from Dave Wiegman stills. Source: Death In Dealey Plaza. Resolution of this DVD 768 x 576 px. Let’s take a look at a sample of this in a 1920 x 1080 px window. I am doing this for comparison reasons. This is not the exact same frame. This is a screen grab I managed to get myself from the DVD in question.

Click pic to enlarge.

The real source for this version of the Wiegman film is a theatrical newsreel version from 1964 from UCLA, the makers of the Death In Dealey Plaza would probably have a 5th generation copy to make their dupes from so that makes this a 6th or even a 7th generation, since their tapes were transferred to DVD and the screen shots used for the GIF are then 8th generation repros.
1st gen: Wiegman original
2nd gen enlargement to 35mm
3rd gen postive film sold on to other companies such as Hearst and UCLA
4th gen negative made from positive
5th gen makers of DIDP get a copy.
6th transfer to tape then the question is does it go from tape to DVD or from the dupe they got from UCLA. My guess is the former rather than the latter since there is not a huge difference in resolution and this happened more than ten years ago (the dvd rel. that is)
So the DVD would be the 7th gen.
The CD Gif the 8th
The Prayer Woman image the 9th!

Now we take the CD Gif and place it in the same window, yes that is how big the original is. Chris rotated the pic to make it line up with the other shot. It has had some post production as the contrast has been increased and the photo appears to be lighter. But size-wise it is pretty much the same as my copy.

Click pic to enlarge.

Now I post MacRae’s PW image next to the same GIF. And also inserted a 400 DPI version of the same CD GIF next to it.

Click pic. to enlarge.

So an 8th generations deep reproduction of an image, in its size as shown in the photograph above is being drastically cropped, “enhanced” and manipulated and becomes the actual 9th generation copy.

From this so called enhancement we can conclude the following:

It’s size has been increased significantly even tho the resolution of the enlargement has been set back at 72 dpi.
Increase of contrast and darkened overall
The top of Prayer Man’s head has been cropped off.
The appearance of wheel barrow man, if Prayer Man is Prayer Woman then surely MacRae, Lamson and Doyle can explain the sudden appearance of wheel barrow man. Not that anyone will believe this to be someone, but this points at things are being ‘made to appear’ inside that picture due to its excessive enlargement and post-production.

Wheel barrow man!. Click pic. to enlarge.

Now I place the Sprague neg. (No. 3) in there, the negs that we scanned in with a flatbed scanner have a much higher resolution than anything else publicly available and shown by any photographic researcher. This is not the exact frame as the one inside the CD GIF (No. 1) but it is very close. And the MacRae interpretation at No. 2.

The generations for this particular shot would be:

1st gen: Wiegman original.
2nd gen enlargement to 35mm.
3rd gen postive film sold on to other companies such as Hearst and UCLA.
4th gen negative made from positive.
5th gen is the positive made from that negative sold to Sprague.
6th gen are the Sprague negs.
7th gen the scans of which you see the one on the right (No. 3). They are also reproductions from large format negatives.
Source: letter from Richard E. Sprague.

Click pic. to enlarge

In all honesty the area that has been enlarged and manipulated by them is even smaller than shown with the No. 1 pic since they cropped the top of his head off.

I have left this image untouched besides drawing a marquee and applying auto levels to bring Prayer Man out a little more out of the darkness. The dust, even the hairs and scratches are visible on it and even that is enough to kill off the glasses, the bag, the teacup (nice touch Dunc’ but that’s stretching things a little too far….) and all the other make believe hooey advocated by Doyle and MacRae. But here it is at its best. Mind you that these are flatbed scans and we are in the process of getting these negs properly scanned in. And I for one cannot wait to show them!

MacRae and Lamson provide absolutely no evidence of how these images have come about, they are not able to reproduce any of it on any other Wiegman frame and they shroud their work in secrecy instead. Doyle just whimpers on like an unruly child, but it’s his crazy deluded headset that is most worrying, his Fetzerian remarks which are interlaced with Cinque style delusions are to be monitored closely.

Skillful photo experts, something Doyle keeps coming up with as support for his delusions, would not go along with his plan at all in the first place. They’d say GTFO and get me the best copy available, instead of messing about with 5th-9th generations down. So how about it Doyle? While you were taking a selfie in front of the TSBD did you bother to go inside and ask for the first generation copy of the Darnell film? Of course you did not……….

They can only debate fuzzy pictures, since they cannot refute the other mountain of evidence that places Oswald on the first floor and outside on the landing while JFK was blasted away.

Finally make up your own mind about this, but I know who my money is on and he ain’t a she.