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

Both Robin Unger, and more recently Neil Harrison who is another Scotsman, have drawn diagrams like this one, purporting that a straight line can be drawn from Altgens' position to the position of the Fedora Man in Towner to what they claim is the "apparent" position of the same man in Altgens. 

I put up Neil's diagram only because it is the most recent one. But, the ability to draw a line on a diagram doesn't prove that it pertains to anything in real life. 

I really like this image below from the Altgens Reenactment. I don't believe I have ever shown it before. I think that Altgens' position and angle were captured quite accurately. 

Remember that the Altgens photo went a little past the corner of the Dal-Tex building on the right. This one goes a little bit more, but hey, it's darn close. But here's what else is great: it captures the Obelisk and the columns of the doorway just like the Altgens photo did. 

 Let's look at them both together:

As I said, in a recent post, at that distance, there is a lot of leverage involved. A flick of the wrist is all it takes to alter the capture. There is, obviously, a difference in the internal proportionality of the images. My photographer, apparently, stepped a little too far out into the street, since the tree is shifted a little farther right, and the same is true of the Obelisk. He needed to tweak his camera a little to his right, which would have sent the objects left.  But still, it's not bad. You shouldn't fault him because at that distance, even being one inch off makes a huge difference. 

Obviously, the Altgens photo is a lot "busier" and that's why my photo is valuable: because it's clean. And what you need to notice is that anyone standing on the sidewalk next to the Obelisk would be captured there: no problem. 

Now granted, there was no one there. But, you know darn well that if someone had been there, they would have been captured there, and there is no chance that they would have appeared to be elsewhere, such as on the sidewalk east of the doorway. There was absolutely nothing that would have suggested any such thing. There was no chance of an optical illusion. It would just have been a person standing by the Obelisk, and that's it. The whole idea that there would have been a parallax phenomenon like that being claimed is preposterous. This is preposterous:

This claim is childish; it is stupid; and it is totally divorced from reality. I don't know who that Fedora Man on the right is, but he is neither one of these two Fedora men from the Towner film: