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

Backes, you are destroyed. Not one researcher- not one person- has come forward to endorse your theory about the other African-American. Not even your friends, like bpete and Robin Unger, are willing to come forward and say that you are right about it. It's just you and a dead guy, Richard E. Sprague. 

And what did his claim amount to? A passing remark in a letter.

Backass thinks that that small paragraph obliges us to accept Sprague's claim. As far as we know, Sprague never mentioned it again. He never included it in any published work. And he never substantiated it in any way. Yet, for some strange reason, Joseph Backes considers it Gospel and thinks we have to bow to it as well. 

Backes, there was no other African-American in that spot, just Roy Lewis. And the frank truth is, that if you hadn't found that offhand remark by Richard E. Sprague, the idea of another African-American being there would never have occurred to you, just as it has never occurred to anyone else. You might have made the claim that it was Roy Lewis' arm- as you did when you made this crappy alteration:

But, you would not have taken it beyond Roy Lewis. The whole idea that such an overlapping took place by another person - who apparently consisted of an arm and nothing else- is ridiculous. It is patently absurd. 

Therefore, you, Backes, are truly the dumbest fuck to ever pretend to be a JFK researcher. You are not a researcher, Backes. You are just a proscenium-stuffing stupid fool. You're being pummeled, and you're too stupid to know it.