can YOU spot john peel?
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not 'at the back.' explain further. back of the photo, back of the crowd, back of oswald....
Uncle Liam wrote:
right at the top. About a centimetre in from the left. Looks like sort of.
no gold star for you. try again, sir.
his face is clear as day!
top right (well almost), standing between two hats, lookin at the camera
Well?????????????????
Cruella wrote: top right (well almost), standing between two hats, lookin at the camera
Well?????????????????
you've got the right of the picture correct, but he's not looking at the camera.
duroc wrote: he's the guy with the microphone light coloured mac
no, but you're very, very warm.
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Isn't peel the guy whose face is half blocked in the top right corner?
what do you mean 'half blocked'? do you mean obscured by another person?
Yes, someone is blocking half of Peel's face. The man in question is the second guy diagonal from the cowboy escorting Oswald on the right of the photo.
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Yes, someone is blocking half of Peel's face. The man in question is the second guy diagonal from the cowboy escorting Oswald on the right of the photo.
other side of the photo.
Sorry about getting the right and the left mixed up. Well, is it right? Wow, about 20 seconds ago!
AgentWood wrote: how can anyone miss those apple cheeks?
Aside from the L-R fiasco, that's how I knew. It's weird that he was an eyewitness to America's mysterious conspiracies.
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Sorry about getting the right and the left mixed up. Well, is it right?
yep. that's him, coming out of the oswald press conference. this is the photo taken directly before oswald was shot. there is another taken from a different angle where you see oswald react to the gun. peel isn't in that one.
you can also see peel in the video footage of oswald's press conference.
this is really weird. just as i was first writing this, oswald defence lawyer by the fall started on my windows media player!
Woody..
Don't want to burst a bubble, but the following is an interview with the great man himself at a website called Molara. He's pretty adamant he wasn't there during the shooting, but was there earlier..
I'm totally confused, and I know Mr Peel had an excellent memory.
Molara: You were based in Dallas in 1963. I have heard that you were in the room when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald?
John Peel: No, I wasn't but I was in a room about 3 days prior to that with them both. They had a late night press conference when they first arrested Lee Harvey Oswald. I was with my mate Bob and we were cruising round trying unsuccessfully to chat up women in drive in restaurants. We thought we'd round off the night by checking out the police headquarters - when we found out what was happening I told the policeman in charge that I was a reporter for The Liverpool Echo and Bob was my photographer and they just let us in. My so-called photographer didn't have a camera and I didn't have a piece of paper or a pen. Granada did a documentary in which they showed footage from that night to prove that Ruby had been at the press conference - they panned across the room and there was me and Bob. I did call the Liverpool Echo at one stage and they did one of those classic local paper things - "Heswall Man in Dallas - John Ravenscroft, son of noted Liverpool cotton broker Robert "Bob" Ravenscroft. . ." nothing at all about what was happening in Dallas.
Burt Reynolds wrote: Woody..
Don't want to burst a bubble, but the following is an interview with the great man himself at a website called Molara. He's pretty adamant he wasn't there during the shooting, but was there earlier..
I'm totally confused, and I know Mr Peel had an excellent memory.
Molara: You were based in Dallas in 1963. I have heard that you were in the room when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald?
John Peel: No, I wasn't but I was in a room about 3 days prior to that with them both. They had a late night press conference when they first arrested Lee Harvey Oswald.
that's not possible, as kennedy was shot on the 22nd and oswald the 24th. oswald was only exposed to the press on the night of the 22nd and just before his shooting on the morning of the 24th so peel couldn't have been in a room with oswald and ruby 3 days before oswald's death.
interestingly, i saw an interview a number of years back where he said that he WAS present at the shooting after the final press meeting and they showed this very picture. hmmmm.
hmmm. i found a similar story. perhaps the 'peel photo' i saw on the documentary was wrong.
anyway, cracking story that he was there. 
It definitely was, Woody..
I was surprised i didnt hear it in the national outpouring of grief when he died. Sorry, I had to Google it. Would much rather it was true!
Burt Reynolds wrote: It definitely was, Woody..
I was surprised i didnt hear it in the national outpouring of grief when he died. Sorry, I had to Google it. Would much rather it was true!
i mean cracking story that he was there at all. to be a part of that much history.
you should've just played along. let me live in blissful ignorance thinking that was him all my life. ;)
OK, Burt. It's not trivia. Your word choice is correct :). But it's still a bizarre coincidence that Peel was in the same area as Oswald. Spooky.
Quantity of what? My posts? Well, I'm trying to get to the next level. Your correction for the Peel confusion is greatly appreciated.
great thread. I love random historical facts and obviously music so this up my alley.Sorry i missed out on the fun.
What about the conclusion of this thread,i think windows are made to air any room and let the sunshine enter in not to keep a watch on any neighbour or any poeple live in the area
virtual01 wrote: What about the conclusion of this thread,i think windows are made to air any room and let the sunshine enter in not to keep a watch on any neighbour or any poeple live in the area
ok virtual, i like those no ms windows as well.
Burt Reynolds wrote: Remember Cozzie.. Its quality, not quantity...
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/357/jpeel1s9zh.jpg" class="max-w-full" alt="" loading="lazy" /> B.R.--using a valueable post to say that. joy. John Peel mortal star.
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Thanx for the trivia, Burt.
And thanks for the trivet, Cozzie! :)
Snorri xxx
Snorrimon wrote:
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: Thanx for the trivia, Burt.
And thanks for the trivet, Cozzie!
forever a gentle-er Snorri-puhttp://img227.imageshack.us/img227/8176/180pxternkayess28vw.jpg" class="max-w-full" alt="" loading="lazy" />ffi-man. J.W.
