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

Linda and I watched an early episode of The Good Wife tonight. It's a courtroom drama, and it revolves around a female lawyer whose husband, who was the Cook County attorney, is in prison for corruption, and among other things, he was charged with using county funds to pay for expensive prostitutes. 

So, he's in prison, and he still has a lot of enemies, and now his wife is working as a defense attorney to support herself and their two teenage kids, and she has inherited his enemies- and made a few of her own. 

And one of her enemies is the guy who replaced her husband as County Attorney. And to threaten her and pressure her, he has delivered to her apartment, revealing and incriminating photographs of her husband with one of the high-priced call girls. Somebody dropped them at the door, rang the bell, and left. 

Well, it turned out that only her teenage kids were home at the time- a boy and a girl. And they opened the envelope to find the photographs of their father getting it on with this hooker.  And it was quite a shock, as you can imagine. 

But first, they come to realize very quickly that the pictures were left there explicitly for the purpose of hurting their mother. So, they decide, together, to foil that by not telling her about them.  

But, the boy goes ahead and scans them to his computer- and at first you're not sure why he's doing that. But, it turns out that he wants to look for signs of photographic alteration- just in case. And I find it very interesting that his mind went there. 

That's because their father confessed to having done it- not to using county funds, but to paying for and having sex with prostitutes. But, this kid was smart. He realized that just because his father confessed to that didn't mean that those particular pictures were necessarily authentic. 

And what he found was a very small thing- much smaller than any of the things that we have found. He found that the light reflection in his dad's eyes- from some source in the room- didn't match the light reflection in the hooker's eyes. And therefore, they weren't in the same room. Somebody had photoshopped them together. The photographs were fakes. The teenage boy figured that out.

Now, that, of course, was fiction. But nevertheless, it demonstrated that a suspicion of photographic alteration is very much warranted, in cases like that, and in cases like this, the JFK assassination. 

What people like Joseph Backes and his Sir-man bpete, and Robin Unger and others want is to reject the whole idea of looking for photographic alteration in the JFK assassination. It's not just that they reject my findings about the Altgens photo or the Dallas PD footage or any of the other films; it's that they reject the very idea of it, of even the possibility of finding photographic alteration. 

And what is most disturbing is for an avowed CT and Oswald-defender to have that attitude. 

If Oswald was innocent, if Kennedy was murdered by an evil cabal which framed Oswald as patsy, and if the physical elements of the assassination were completely different from what they claimed, then why wouldn't there be problems with the photographic record? Why wouldn't they expect there to be problems? Problems that had to be fixed. Problems that they were prepared to fix. Problems that they planned ahead of time to be prepared to fix, and muy rapido- if necessary. 

What is the basis for a CT/ Oswald-defender to be outraged at the idea of photographic alteration in the JFK case? No, what is an outrage is that such a person would contemptuously dismiss photographic alteration in the case.       

It's very likely that the JFK assassination is the most photographically altered event in the history of the world. And that has definitely got to be true for one-day events, such as this was.