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Comment: Can you add anything more to the "reception" section? Right now it doesn't look like this passes WP:NBOOK. We need in-depth coverage of the book itself. asilvering (talk) 08:30, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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| Author | Stan Dane |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Lee Harvey Oswald, United States conspiracies |
Publication date | August 13, 2015 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover, paperback) |
| Pages | 342 pp |
| ISBN | 1944205012 |
Prayer Man: The Exoneration of Lee Harvey Oswald (released under the subtitle Out of the Shadows and Into the Light) is a 2015 book by Stan Dane, published by Martian Publishing. The book examines the research by Sean Murphy who hypothesized that Lee Harvey Oswald was the "prayer man", an unidentified man filmed on the steps of the Texas School Book Depository by Dave Wiegman, Jr., of NBC, and James Darnell, of WBAP-TV during the assassination of John F. Kennedy.[1] The book is drawn from many sources, including the Warren Report.
Background edit
NBC cameraman Dave Wiegman, Jr. and James Darnell[2] of WBAP-TV, were passengers in President Kennedy's motorcade when Kennedy was assassinated. In 2013, attention was noted towards a figure standing in the doorway to the Texas School Book Depository on the steps in both Wiegman's and Darnell's films, with Sean Murphy dubbing the figure "Prayer Man" (on account of the posture of the figure's arms). Murphy came to theorize that the figure was Lee Harvey Oswald, and that the official first sighting of Oswald after the assassination by Dallas policeman Marion Baker and Depository superintendent Roy Truly in the depository second-floor lunchroom was a fabrication, suggesting that early newspaper reports indicated the lack of a mention of the lunchroom encounter, that Depository vice president Occhus Campbell first saw Oswald in the first-floor storage room, and that Oswald's interrogations note suggest he was "out with [depository foreman William Shelley] in front"[3] and that he was at the "front entrance to the first floor".[4] Murphy examined the accounts and testimonies of various book depository employees in order to rule who could have been the "prayer man", depending on their location and apperance.[5][6] After Murphy stopped researching on November 22, 2013, the 50th anniversary of the assassination, the research into the identity of the "prayer man" has been continued mainly by the Australian research group "REOPEN KENNEDY CASE" (ROKC).[7]
Critical and commercial reception edit
In the 2014 book 22 November 1963: A Brief Guide to the JFK Assassination, Jeremy Bojczuk mentioned the prayer man and Sean Murphy's research, concluding that only with the discovery of better quailty versions of the Darnell and Wiegman films, could Oswald be "definitively eliminated either as the figure in the doorway or as (the killer of President Kennedy)."[8]
The Mary Ferrell Foundation featured the book as amongst the most featured and reviewed of 2015.[9] A 2015 podcast praised Murphy's research and concluded that "while it remains a hypothesis, Sean Murphy's incredible deducing manages to make a possible and sound case that the unknown man standing on the steps in the Darnell and Wiegman films can only reasonbly be Lee Oswald."[10] A website had readers call it "A must read for anyone who doesn't believe the official version of the JFK assassination events."[11]
Bart Kamp later indicated his support in a 2018 podcast. [12] One theorist scoffed at how "detractors say it is “someone else” or “a stranger” on the steps if not hallucinating completely and calling the figure a woman, an alien, or some species closely related to the unicorn."[13]
In a 2016 interview, Bart Kamp, who wrote the 2023 book Prayer Man: More Than a Fuzzy Picture, offered his support for the prayer man hypothesis, stating his belief that the film images "more or less exonerate him [Lee Harvey Oswald]".[14]
In a 2021 book, Vince Palamara disputed the hypothesis, suggesting the figure was actually depository employee Sarah Stanton, though he admitted that the figure did resemble Oswald.[15]
Notes edit
References edit
- ^ Not to be confused with depository employee Billy Lovelady being mistaken for Oswald in the Depository doorway photo by Ike Altgens. Lovelady is seen in front of "prayer man" in the Wiegman film.
- ^ "James Glen "Jimmy" Darnell". Find a Grave. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- ^ "Will Fritz's Notes from Interrogation of Oswald". www.maryferrell.org. 22 November 1963. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
- ^ Testimony of Harry D. Holmes, Warren Commission Hearings, vol. 7, pp. 306.
- ^ William Kelly (14 August 2013). "Oswald Leaving TSBD? - JFK Assassination Debate - The Education Forum". Forums - The Education Forum. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
- ^ Dane, Stan. Prayer Man: The Exoneration of Lee Harvey Oswald (Martian Publishing, 2015), p. 190. ISBN 1944205012
- ^ Dane, Stan. Prayer Man: The Exoneration of Lee Harvey Oswald (Martian Publishing, 2015), p. 313. ISBN 1944205012
- ^ Bojczuk, Jeremy (2014). 22 November 1963: A Brief Guide to the JFK Assassination. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 40. ISBN 9780993100314. 0993100317. Retrieved 3 November 2023.
- ^ "FEATURED 2015 Books". maryferrell.org. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
- ^ "LaunchpadOne: Ep. 84 ~ Prayer Man Revisited".
- ^ "Voices choices". www.thetulsavoice.com.
- ^ "MWN Episode 078 – Bart Kamp on Prayer Man, Oswald, & the TSBD". 24 July 2018.
- ^ Just One Conspiracy. (2020). "Indirect Proof that Oswald was Prayer Man". justoneconspiracy.wordpress.com. https://justoneconspiracy.wordpress.com/2020/11/19/indirect-proof-that-oswald-was-prayer-man/.
- ^ "'Moord op JFK in ander daglicht'". RTVOost. 14 November 2016.
- ^ Palamara, Vince. Honest Answers about the Murder of President John F. Kennedy: A New Look at the JFK Assassination, (Southlake: JFK Lancer Productions & Publications, 2021), ISBN 0-9656582-4-4