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

Joseph Backes says he wants to get into this, and that's exactly what we're going to do.

Backes says that it's the arm of "an African-American" going up. Note that when he made this crude art, Backes was claiming that it was the arm of the African-American we see there, Roy Lewis, going up. Since then, he has changed his story, now claiming that it's the arm of another African-American who was on the sidewalk and waving at the motorcade. 

Backes has never provided a stitch of evidence for the existence of this other African-American. He has referenced a letter by Richard E. Sprague in which Sprague made claim to the existence of this person, but, Sprague never substantiated it either. He just said it without the slightest, tiniest shred of evidence. And Backes thinks we should be bound by that. 

But, let's consider the implications of Backes' claim. Look at the picture again, and just focus on the right side, the untouched photo.

Backes claims that we are seeing the arm of another African-American, just the arm. But arms are attached to bodies, so where is his body? If his arm was in front of Roy Lewis, then all of him was, so why don't we see his body in front of Roy Lewis? Where exactly was he that only his arm showed up in the picture? Where was his head?

Backes claims that the area of the cuff is actually the rolled up sleeve of the man's shirt. But, it has the exact same tone and color as Doorman's shirt. Of course, I mean that in black and white terms, it has the same "color". And I am not the first to say so. Read the HSCA Final Report. There, Robert Groden made reference to the "color" of Doorman's shirt, even though it is a black and white photo. So, does that mean that this black man was wearing a shirt just like Doorman's? And if you look above the cuff, you see what, according to Backes, is a naked arm and hand. So, was this man wearing a shirt that was of the exact same tonal quality as his own skin? How likely is that? Look at this. This is the world according to Joseph Backes:

So, as chance would have it, this African-American man wore a shirt that came out the exact same tonal quality as his skin in a black and white photo. Amazing! Do you really think that black skin would reproduce in a photograph exactly like the shirt the black man was wearing? Which apparently was exactly the same as the shirt Doorman was wearing? It's all the same. It all looks the same.  

Now, the Altgens photo was very extemporaneous with the start of the Wiegman film. They were so close in time that there is debate about which came first. Some say that Altgens snapped his picture before Wiegman turned on his camera, while others say that Wiegman started first and subsumed all that is seen in the Altgens photo. But, it doesn't really matter precisely because they were so close in time.

In the Altgens photo, the arm of the "other African-American" rises higher than Roy Lewis' head. It rises much higher. Therefore, we should be able to see it in the Wiegman film.

Look above and to the right (our right) of Roy Lewis' head. Do you see that mysterious arm?  

According to bpete, there was a frame in the Wiegman film in which Roy Lewis turned his head such that he was looking the other direction as we see him doing in the Altgens photo. I don't agree with that at all, and I have never been shown a Wiegman frame that demonstrates any such thing. In every Wiegman frame I've seen, Roy Lewis is turned and looking west. But, hypothetically, if such a frame exists, then it should look like the Altgens photo, and we should see the arm of the other man rising up above Roy Lewis' head. 

Well, here is the Wiegman film in slow motion. You find the frame in which the arm of the other African-American rises up above Roy Lewis' head:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3xR0WBPo8I 

Backass, I am just trying to do what you should have done from the beginning: provide independent confirmation of the existence of this other figure: the other African-American. If you would like to present some other photographic or film evidence which shows him, that's fine. I would be delighted. It would be just as good. But, you have to provide something. You can't just say it. You can't just make it up. You can't just pull it from out your ass the way you do the proscenium arches.  

And since you know Doorman did have an arm coming down, what do you figure happened to it? Do you think the arm of the African-American just happened to overlay it perfectly so that we can't see Doorman's arm? What do you maintain Doorman was doing with his left arm? Where is Doorman's left arm, Backes? 

To the folks back on Earth, that is Doorman's arm coming down. He is clasping his hands together in front, as Oswald liked to do. His arm appears to be going in front of Roy Lewis because that is a phony image of Lewis which was implanted into the picture. That's why we see Roy Lewis' face, Doorman's cuff, and then Roy Lewis' torso stacked vertically- an impossible situation since Doorman was far away from him in three planes: Doorman was way above Lewis, way in back of him, and way east of him. 

And that is why Roy Lewis is listed as an anomaly on the OIC website and will remain so. No one has successfully challenged it, and no one ever will.