He created this simulation, what he calls a 3D overlay, and he says that the Woman and Baby should be with the Fedora Man at that spot, but they're not. Where are they, he asks. Well, they are on the left, right? Did Edward Baker NOT see them? I really don't think he did. He certainly didn't mention them. His whole implication was that they are missing from Towner. They sailed right over his radar.
But, I don't fault him- not at all. How many people, without additional information and with no other image but this, would say that there is a woman and baby there?
Now, I realize that in the photoshopped version, there is a lot more to see, but that's from the added color, and it doesn't count.
And, I think Edward's depiction of the "family" from Altgens as they might have appeared in Towner is very interesting, and we should compare the two.
It's funny; I never, for one moment, thought that they were a family. And I will state again, and I want to emphasize this strongly, that the man is facing the other way. Think of him this way:
His back is to us. Above the boy's hat is not the man's brown forehead; it is the ribbon of his hat. The lay of his shoulders is consistent with this interpretation. And, it is opposite to the shoulder orientation we see on the right.
You see how Edward has got the man holding the kid on the right, but the man on the left is NOT holding the kid at all. It's funny that in all of our discussions, nobody has ever suggested that the man was holding the child. We have only discussed it in terms of the woman holding the child. Why did Edward go with the man holding the boy? It may be because, intuitively, he knew that the woman couldn't do it. But, could the man even do it? How is he doing it? Is the boy sitting on his forearm? Or is that his hand? Who would hold a child like that? Nobody would. This is ridiculous, but it is what Edward had to resort to to make the Altgens trio seem like a family, which was his presumption.
Below, I have got the points of the man's shoulders indicated, right and left:
Now, if that were opposite, then his left shoulder would be on the right, and it would be very deep within the picture. We would have to look inside to see it- if we could see it at all. We are seeing his back. He is facing the other way.
If he were facing forward at an angle, we would see his shoulder line presented in this plane:
It's a small triangular area of blackness. It's below the boy's chin and to the left of the mother's right cheek. Notice that this blackness is entirely consistent with the blackness of the man's jacket. There is NO difference in shade or tone whatsoever. If he were facing forward, that would be the central part of his torso where his jacket was open. Right? So, we'd be seeing his shirt, right? We're not going to assume that he is wearing a black shirt, are we? That is the back of his jacket. It looks entirely consistent with the rest of his jacket because it is. That is his right trapezius area in back. You know that spot at the top of the back where people develop a lot of tension and like to have it massaged and kneaded? That's what it is. If it were his front, surely it would be a different color. We are seeing his back. His back is to us. He is facing Oswald.
And that's why they had to put that Woman and Boy in there because it isn't normal to be turned and looking at a doorway when the President is riding by.
So, I'm afraid that Edward's depiction of the fam is flat-out wrong.
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