Creative Speculation
In reply to the discussion: Bugliosi: 53 Reasons It Was Lee Harvey Oswald [View all]zappaman
(20,617 posts)The photo was made public in late February 1964, simultaneously appearing on the cover of Life magazine and on the front page of the Detroit Free Press. Within days it had appeared in many other publications. But sharp-eyed observers noticed that the photo appeared to have been tampered with since details differed from publication to publication. In particular, details of the rifle differed. For instance, in the version that appeared on the cover of Life (top) Oswald's rifle had a sniper scope. But in the version that ran in the Detroit Free Press (bottom), the sniper scope was gone. The Detroit Free Press version reappeared two weeks later in Newsweek.
These differences created suspicions that the photo was fake. Oswald himself, when shown the photo in jail, claimed he had never seen it before and insisted someone had superimposed his head onto another body. However, the photo was real. The variations (and accidental erasure of the sniper scope) were caused by photo editors touching up the photo in different ways in order to heighten the contrast between dark and grey areas. This was a common practice in the publishing industry at the time, due to the limitations of the printing process.
In 1978 the Select Committee on Assassination of the House of Representatives commissioned a panel of photographic experts to study the photo. Their examination included microscopic analysis of the photo, as well as photogrammetric comparison of Oswald's face to other photos of him (including two other photos taken in his backyard). No evidence of tampering was found. The mysterious line across Oswald's chin was determined to be a water spot.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/photo_database/image/oswalds_backyard_photo/
More? Okay.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/photos.txt
Here's more...
http://www.perceptionweb.com/perception/editorials/p6580.pdf
Not enough? Okay.
The main questions that conspiracy theorists need to answer if
they think the photos have been faked are:
1.) How did the plotters/photo-fakers get Marina Oswald to ADMIT to
having taken the photos?
2.) How in the world did these clever plotters get Lee Oswald HIMSELF
to SIGN one of the photographs?*
3.) Why in the wide, wide world of "Presidential Assassination Patsy
Conspiracy Plots" would the perpetrators of this photo-faking scheme
feel there was any need whatsoever to "fake" MULTIPLE pictures that, in
essence, depicted the EXACT same thing (i.e., Oswald with guns and
Russian newspapers)?
http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2010/06/backyard-photos.html
http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2010/06/backyard-photos-part-2.html
Not done yet.
http://www.livescience.com/7941-incriminating-photo-lee-harvey-oswald-faked.html
And it goes on.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-plesser/iconic-lee-harvey-oswald_b_346990.html
So, these photos have been examined by experts and found to be genuine.
There are many many more links supporting the assertion that they are real.
I'm sure you will go to at least one of these links and read all the way thru.
If you are an expert in photo manipulation, your views must be taken seriously.
Are you?