Tuesday, January 6, 2015

It really is naive and stupid to think that this one time, in the entire history of photography, one man's arm overlaid another man's arm in perfect alignment, and it's just as ridiculous to think that his rolled-up sleeve would look in every way like a cuff.



That is Doorman's arm and cuff, which is coming down. He is clasping his hands, just as Oswald like to do. It was a habit. 

The notion that another African-American just happened to be there obscuring not just Doorman's arm but that of Roy Lewis as well, and that it happened to be that only his arm got captured and no other part of him, and that he didn't show up at all in any other photo or film is insane.  The problem is that people have looked at this, trying to analyze it, without even considering that the photo was altered, and I mean criminally altered. Even Harold Weisberg dropped the ball on that one, and I attribute it to having too much faith in America, that we would never do a thing like that here. Well, we would and we have. The JFK assassination is probably the most photographically altered event there ever was.    


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