Monday, June 9, 2014

There has been a misunderstanding of this statement by Backes and Unger and perhaps by others:



The statement does NOT imply that anybody was other than where they seemed to be. It only has to do with their size, how large they are:



So, I have circled two heads: that of the black man on the left and the Fedora man on the right. The author was saying that the size of Fedora Man's head is about the same as the black man's head even though the black man was much closer to Altgens than the Fedora Man. That's all he was saying. He did NOT mean to imply that the Fedora Man was anywhere else than where he appears to be. He did not mean to imply that anyone in the photograph was anywhere else than where they appear to be. 

And when we apply it to the Towner film, there is nothing to apply:



The man was on the north side of upper Elm Street, in front of the Obelisk, amidst the crowd, and he was watching the motorcade as it passed. Tina Towner was across the street, and she filmed him. 

That's it! Period. There is no other "perspective." There is no chance that he was someplace else. There is no other way of interpreting it. There is no reason to single him out and think he was different than those other people. It is a very straight-forward thing. You've got a bunch of people; they're along Elm Street; and they're watching the President, and they're all the same. That's it. 

Backes and Unger are completely disconnected from reality. They come up diagrams:


  
No, Robin. You misunderstood. He was just referring to the man's size, that in size, he seemed to be closer to Altgens than he really was. 

You can't move people around in the photograph, Robin, and that's what you are doing. He was where he seems to be. The other Fedora Man in Towner was where he seems to be. Everybody is where they seem to be. 

You and Backes have been drinking the Kool-aid for too long, and you need to stop.   


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