Lloyde England and Father Stephen McGraw were CIT's FIRST NORTHSIDE WITNESSES
As I started reading this thread I wondered when someone would pick up on this.
Yes, Lloyd was on the bridge, the pictures illuistrate that. Perhaps not senile or tricked by Ranke, but still wrong.
The question NOBODY THOUGHT TO ASK, is ...
WHEN was Lloyde on the bridge?
The first clear photo of Lloyde there, standing behind the brown Jeep rather than near his own cab, is Jason Ingersoll's DSC_0419.
This was taken at 9:55 am.
That is 18 minutes after the impact.
WHEN was the cab on the bridge?
AGAIN, we have Jason Ingersoll's first image of it there, DSC_0412.
This was taken at 9:48 am.
That is 11 minutes after the impact.
The next question is ...
WHERE WAS LLOYDE at 9:37:46 am?
LLOYDE himself answered that, many times.
WHEN IT HAPPENED, he was not on the bridge.
He was driving south on Route 27, north of the heliport, north of the Columbia Pike exit sign, when a pole came crashing through his windshield, scattering glass everywhere.
When his cab skidded to a halt, it was beside the concrete wall below the cemetery.
This location is 350 yards north of the bridge where the famous photos were later taken.
How long does it take to drive 350 yards?
Depending on one's speed, just 20 - 30 seconds.
Although Craig Ranke was happy to accept other eye witnesses' own testimony as to their location at this time, he scoffed at the adamant claims of this career cab driver, as though he was not familiar with his home town, and was too senile to recall his location at this pivotal moment in history.
Marquis' and Ranke's refusal to accept Lloyde's testimony meant that they also rejected the corroborating testimony of other eye witnesses who claimed to have seen or been close to Lloyde's cab.
Therefore, rather than connecting the dots between, say, England's and Father Stephen McGraw's testimonies, which places both of them between the heliport and the cemetery wall at impact, CIT insisted they were both located on top of the bridge beneath the official flight path, and branded both these valuable witnesses as complicit liars in a mass murder plot.
The fact is that while Father Stephen McGraw crossed the road from his car onto the Pentagon lawn at the triage site where he waited for the first victims to be brought out, Lloyde's cab was hastily relocated from the cemetery wall to the bridge site where the scene was carefully staged for the photo series necessary to sell the Official AA77 Flightpath.
Navy Times journalist Mark Faram ran from the Navy Annex after the impact, and arrived at the Pentagon lawn about 15 - 20 minutes later. He shot a series of famous photos at the triage area, including father McGraw praying with victims.
CIT claimed that McGraw had been "bussed in" specifically for this purpose, and that he was nowhere near this site initially, although he had stated that he was already on the lawn within about one minute from witnessing the impact.
However, CIT has now been proven in error.
A single screen capture from an amateur video shot on the northern Pentagon lawn from 9:39 am, shows McGraw waiting there just as he testified, 3 minutes 25 seconds post impact.
McGraw testifies that he merely crossed the lanes of traffic from his stationary car, and waited there beside the lawn.
CIT insisted he would have had to walk the 350 yards from the bridge to get there.
CIT was wrong.
Both England and McGraw were North-of-Citgo witnesses, and their testimonies actually supported CIT's work.
But Aldo and Craig stubbornly rejected their valuable evidence, which hamstrung their own investigation, and destroyed their reputations.