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

I talked to a researcher at the Henry Ford Museum about that strange photo of LBJ and Lady Bird in the limo. The date of it was October 5, 1964. The taker of the photo is unknown, and the location of it is unspecified. But, we know the source of it: a Secret Service agent named Morgan Gies.

"Morgan Gies was a member of the United States Secret Service and the man in charge of the White House vehicles. He held that position for 27 years, serving five presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson. In addition to overseeing the White House fleet, he was often the driver of the presidential vehicle or the backup car."

The way that the Henry Ford Museum got the photo is that Edward Gies, the son of Morgan Gies, donated it to them after his father's death. 

This is how the photo is featured on the Henry Ford website.

You see that it says Creator: Unknown. And if you were to scroll down that bar, you would get to this:

So, you see that it says that it was from the Morgan L.Gies Collection, and a gift to the The Henry Ford from Edward Gies in memory of his father. 

On the back, it says this:

So, it was October 5, 1964. It says a 1964 Lincoln, but of course, it was 1961. 

October 1964 was just one month before the 1964 Presidential election, a busy time for the candidate. And on that day, October 5, there was an international incident when 23 men and 31 women escaped to West Berlin through a narrow tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Does it seem likely that Johnson would be posing for pictures in the limo on that day?

According to the Henry Ford, "Work was completed on the limo on May 1, 1964 and extensive testing was performed in Cincinnati, Ohio and Dearborn, Michigan before the car was delivered to the White House in June 1964." 

So, they got the car back in June 1964. Doesn't it seem that if they were going to take pictures to show off the refurbished limo that they would have done so right away? Why wait 4 months? And why, in the midst of the last month of the Presidential campaign, would they take the time to do it then? It's not like they were going to use it then because they didn't use it. 

Why did the image wind up as a personal belonging of Secret Service Agent Morgan Gies? Why was it never shown publicly until long after his death? Whose idea was it, 4 months after the limo was returned, to say, "Hey, I know! Today, let's put you two kids into the limo and take a picture." Did that just come up? 

Notice that they're not sitting in it as if they were riding. When you are riding, you sit back against the seatback. You don't sit forward. But, they are NOT sitting against the seatback. They are both sitting forward and casting a shadow back on the seatback.

So, they are not sitting there for driving purposes. But, if they're sitting there just to pose for the picture, then why isn't LBJ looking at the camera? How could he possibly be distracted or deep in thought under the circumstances? Really, this is laughable. 

It's a bull shit picture, a fabrication. I don't know if it was Morgan Gies idea or someone else's to create it. But, it is crap, a total fake.