Very interesting submission from Professor James Norwood this evening. A Utah high school took to photoshopping the yearbook pictures of students to achieve modesty. Here is a before and after:
There's something wrong with bare shoulders? Bunch of prudes over there, if you ask me. And if she was allowed to be at school with bare shoulders, doesn't that render meaningless the yearbook prohibition? But, the point is that they took to photographic altering to get what they wanted. And the same is most certainly true of those controlling the photographic record of the JFK assassination.
Of course, they didn't have Photoshop back then, but they had other means to accomplish the same things. And I am sure that what they had was state-of-the-art at the time.
They altered photos. They altered films. They altered x-rays. They altered anything and everything they could get their hands on. The JFK assassination was the most photographically altered event in the history of photography. And that is probably true to this day, with nothing exceeding it.
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