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

I checked that listing again, and today there is no banner at all. It just says at the top that the listing has ended. It doesn't say sold. 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/JOHN-F-KENNEDY-amp-CONNALLY-SHOT-DALLAS-LAST-PHOTO-DATE-NOV-22-1963-RARE-8465a-/380780176665?nma=true&si=gK8mYVr13EjsO1DgmA9Um9nyBSo%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557


I can't imagine that it sold. Who is his right mind would pay $675 for a lousy cropped copy of the Altgens photo (with better copies available for free) just because it has a little typing at the bottom?

There is absolutely nothing about this that authenticates it as anything but a crappy, cropped copy of the Altgens photo with some typing at the bottom. Furthermore, why does the caption overlap the picture? Text and photos are two different things that are handled very differently through all phases of processing. You know the AP didn't do that. Did the seller tape it or glue it? Everything about this thing looks crude, homemade and amateurish. Again, who in his right mind would pay $675 for it? 

And here's something else that's weird: the guy offered it without accepting lower bids. It was a take-it-or-leave-it situation. But, why would he do that? Would he really turn down, say, $600? He'd have to be out of his mind. What would it have hurt to let people bid on it? It wouldn't have obliged him in any way. And it still would have said that if you wanted to buy it right now, you just had to pay the asking price. So, why wouldn't he do that? What did he have to lose?