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

This is definitely a highly manipulated & falsified image of Oswald. 

They did more than take away his skinniness, making him look downright STOCKY. Amazing! And it is extreme what they did, where the pendulum swung to the other side. Instead of being skinny and scrawny, now he's beefy and brawny. Look at that girth on him. 

But, in addition, there is a good chance they meddled with his hair. The picture was taken after his encounter with Lovelady when they put him in a holding room and left the door open so that photographers could snap away. Therefore, his hair should have been no different than it was a moment earlier. 

There was like a minute between those two. If we said two minutes, that would be stretching it. He was walking through a building, so there was no wind. Did Oswald even have strands that long? I doubt it. Look how short the hair is on the sides. And look at it up close.

That is awfully long hair to have on top considering how short it is on the sides. Here is another version of it from another source.

If he had hairs there that long, then there would be others, and the whole look of his hair would be longer than it is. I'm just not buying it. Is there any other image of Oswald in which he has strands of hair falling down that much? 

 It really is quite unusual for his hair. For instance, the image on the left was taken right before he went through the line-up. 

So, the image on the left was taken AFTER the image on the right. Oswald was taken to the Homicide Division, then put in a room (as we see on the right), and then interrogated by Fritz, Hosty and Bookout from 3:15 to 4:15, and then at 4:45 put through a lineup for the Tippit murder. The picture on the left was taken right before that. So, how did his hair get put back into place? You figure he combed it? That he had a comb with him? Isn't that a little presumptuous? 

Another thing I think they did was soften the trauma to his left eye.

Do this: Look at the two eyes in the mug shot on the left and note the amount of contrast between them. Settle on it for a while. Let it seep in. Then do the same on the right. I'm sure you'll agree that we get a much greater sense of eye trauma on the left than the right.  

In fact, on the right, if you didn't know better, you might not pick up any sense of eye trauma at all. If we showed the picture to, say, 100 people, how many would report back to us that his left eye had been traumatized? It wouldn't be all of them; that's for sure. 

Of course, the purpose of covering that up was to hide the police brutality that was done to Oswald in the theater. Was it really necessary for them bash him in the eye to apprehend him? Several big strong cops couldn't control this scrawny 131 pound man without bashing him in the eye? 

There is more I could say about this lame picture, but without a doubt, it is a staged piece of propaganda that was used to misrepresent Oswald's size and condition.