Some comments on Prayer Man that may be new, in support of Bart Kamp's book's thesis
Who is Large-Framed Figure standing immediately to the left of Buell Wesley Frazier on the same top landing level in Darnell?
I wrote a fuller discussion of this above to Pat Speer who has not as yet responded, maybe others might wish to address this. It is astonishing to me that I do not see prior proposals that Large-Framed Figure (LFF) to Frazier's immediate left, in the
Darnell film, is Sarah Stanton. The width of LFF's body frame corresponds to Sarah Stanton's obesity. The height of LFF at 5'6" (hair included) agrees with Sarah Stanton's height. And LFF is in exactly the position that Buell Wesley Frazier said Sarah
Stanton was, and Pauline Sanders said Sarah Stanton was, to Frazier's left as Frazier explicitly said (not to his right where Prayer Man was)--no, LFF is exactly where Frazier located Sarah Stanton to his immediate left, with whom Frazier exchanged words
back and forth as she stood next to him. Large-Framed Figure is exactly a match to Sarah Stanton.
Yet surprisingly LFF has not been so identified (as Sarah Stanton) previously so far as I can tell. Andrej Stancak in his discussions identified Large-Framed Figure (LFF) as Shelley. But if Shelley is correctly identified in the Crouch film as walking
with Lovelady west in front of the TSBD, as I believe most now consider that more or less settled, Shelley is not LFF. Others have identified LFF as Molina. Superficially there is a case for this match because Molina testified that he was right in front
of the door, on the top step, when he saw Truly come in to the TSBD, which Molina estimated was 20-30 seconds after the shots, at about the same time as Darnell.
But a Molina identification for LFF is not right for the following reasons. First, look at the hair on LFF. It looks like at least an inch up from the head all over the head, consistent with a photo of Sarah Stanton's hair. LFF's hair matches Sarah
Stanton's hair. It does not match Molina who from photos appears semi-bald or with thinning flat hair. Second, LFF is extremely wide in body, more than normal, consistent with Sarah Stanton's obesity, but not obviously in agreement with Molina who I
think was a more normal build. Third, I don't have height data for Molina but 5'6" height of LFF, including hair, 5'5" or even 5'4-1/2" actual height to the top of the head not counting hair, is at the heart of the bell-curve of women's heights, not most
men's heights. Fourth, Molina is identified in the Altgens6 photo as a figure standing a step or two down in the sun with his arm raised and shielding his eyes from the sun, and the same posture and figure, that is, Molina, appears in Darnell distinct
from and a little lower and to the left of LFF, therefore is not LFF. And fifth, Molina's language in his Warren Commission testimony of being outside in front of the door is well understand as general language which would be used for being anywhere
outside on that landing or steps, and it is overprecision to say that Molina's testimony of being out in front of the door can only mean LFF's position.
If Large-Framed figure is Sarah Stanton, then Sarah Stanton was not Prayer Man, in agreement with Frazier who has always remembered Sarah Stanton at his left but is unable to identify Prayer Man to his right. If Prayer Man were Sarah Stanton, Frazier
would identify her. The simplest explanation for why he does not identify PM as Stanton is because he knows Sarah Stanton was to his left, where she visibly IS in the Darnell photos, as Large-Framed Figure.
With Sarah Stanton excluded as Prayer Man (if the LFF Sarah Stanton identification is accepted as convincing), and with no other good identification for Prayer Man in place, the possibility that Oswald was that figure receives heightened focus.
To spell it out: removal of Sarah Stanton as Prayer Man (because she is Large-Framed Figure to Frazier's left) removes the only major claimed alternative to Oswald himself as the leading candidate for identification of Prayer Man.
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