Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

Randy Guntner is being extremely nice and respectful to me over on The Kennedy Assassinations Facebook page, and he's ordered people to behave themselves. This is something I just posted over there. And I mentioned your name in it, Backes. You see, I'm making you famous.

Here it is: 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/322749987858423/

Thank you, Randy. I ask the members to look at this Altgens image. There is the face of Roy Lewis in profile. Then his neck is obscured by Doorman's cuff. Then below that, there is a weird shamrock-shaped form that presumably represents his torso.

• So, what is going on there? Doorman was way back on the top landing, while Lewis was way forward on a low step. The steps are both steep and long, and climbing them really sets you back. So, how could Doorman's cuff wind up in front of Roy Lewis' neck? Did Doorman have 12 foot arms?
  
  Some have tried to resolve this innocently by saying that it isn't Doorman's arm at all, that what we think is a cuff is actually the tightly rolled-up sleeve of a man, another African-American man, whose only manifestation in the picture is his arm, and whose bare skin tone came out on film exactly the same as the shirt he was wearing. That is what Joseph Backes maintains.
  
  I prefer not to go that route, myself. What I think happened is that the face of Roy Lewis was inserted into the picture, that Roy Lewis was not visible to Altgens.
  
  In the Wiegman film, we can see that Roy Lewis was standing right against the west wall with his hand on the molding of the column. He is only, and always, turned and looking west, not east, so opposite to Altgens. And from his position in Wiegman, I maintain that Lewis would have been invisible to Altgens. I've drawn a line showing the extent to which Altgens' visual field was cut off to Altgens. 

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
  This diagram is accurate. No one has ever denied that much of the doorway was cut off to Altgens' view. Even Doorman was partially cut off- his right shoulder- and he was standing in the center of the doorway. So, if a guy standing in the center was partially cut off, you know that a large part of the doorway was cut off.
  
  If Roy Lewis was standing against the wall in Altgens as he was in Wiegman, then he was definitely cut off to Altgens. As I see it, the only way my opponenets can defend Lewis' visibility in Altgens is to say that he moved. Not just turned, but physically moved, as in relocated.
  
  But, how much time was there between Altgens and the start of Wiegman? They were so close that people argue about which came first. They may have been just one second apart, so arguing a physical movement for Lewis is difficult, and so far nobody has done it.
  
  I think the time has come to seriously consider photographic alteration as an explanation for some of what we see in the Altgens photo.