Look at this collage of Gorilla Man from the Martin film (who is supposed to be Lovelady but isn't). On the left is the standard view of him and on the right is what Robert Groden submitted to the HSCA. He- or somebody- messed with it, and it is terribly wrong.
Start with him on the left. Look at his neck. Look how it goes forward. His neck is short, and it goes forward. It's called Forward Neck Syndrome. But now, look at him on the right. His neck looks very different. It looks vertical. It looks normal. Somebody blackened out the lower part of his face. It's like they gave him a beard except that it extends beyond his face. It also includes part of his neck, the part that's going forward on the left. So, he no longer appears to have a forward neck.
And now I know why they made his neck red. They wanted to blend his neck with his collar so that it would make his neck seem longer, and hence, more normal. I'll show you what I mean. The fact is: there is much less neck there than what it seems. I've painted in his shirt collar in red.
That blob of red is his collar. It goes with his shirt. And there is very little neck above it. But you really don't notice it. You get the false impression of a longer neck. And it's because they pinkified it all. They got it to all blend together- the skin and the fabric. Look at it in a collage.
On the left you get the impression of a long neck, but it's because you are mistaking his collar for his neck. On the right, you see how little neck he has. They deceptively made his neck look longer. And by blackening, they got rid of the part of his neck that is going forward.
Everything to the left of the white vertical line got blackened out on the right. By inserting black and pink, they created the illusion of a vertical neck which Lovelady had but which Gorilla Man, whoever he was, did not have.
The question is: who did this? Was it Robert Groden? Was he personally involved in this outright fraud? I'm open to that, but there is another possibility. There may have been technical people working with Groden, assigned to work with him. He may have had "helpers". And maybe they did it. Maybe Groden was talked into it for some technobabble reason. He's not really a photo expert. He is not academically trained. Maybe he was talked into something.
But, somebody definitely did this, putting that black on the lower part of the face, his so-called "beard" and also covering the part of his neck that was going forward instead of up and then lengthening his neck by merging it with the collar and letting it all blend into one. It's not an optical illusion; it's a color illusion.
This is big: another utterly phony photo from the JFK assassination, and somebody put a lot of work into making it. I always knew this image was distorted, but the magnitude of the distortion is much greater than I realized.
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