Friday, May 15, 2015

This is another Carl E. Linde photo. It was after the Texas/Oklahoma football game in 1958.


Linde actually did quite a bit of sports photography. But, it doesn't say anywhere that he was a writer. Since Linde was a photographer, why wasn't he out taking pictures on November 22? Why aren't we talking about the Linde JFK photos today? Did they really keep him in the office that day to write captions?

Was he really a caption writer? Are there other non-JFK photos for which he wrote captions?

This is a picture of a Dallas demonstration taken in October 1963, so a month before, by Linde.


If you do a search for "Carl E. Linde AP caption writer" all you get is us talking about it, and when I do the search on Google, the first listings are me. Try it yourself:

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Carl+E.+Linde++AP+caption+writer

The point is that there is nothing about Carl E. Linde being a caption writer except for the controversial captions he supposedly wrote for the Altgens photos. 

This reminds me of the "Thorburn reaction" nonsense in which John F. Kennedy is the only time the term has been applied to anyone since 1897 when Thorburn wrote about it, and his patient was like the reciprocal of Kennedy. Really, it's just a nonsense idea introduced by Dr. John Lattimer, a urologist who was Eisenhower's personal physician during WW2, and afterwards, he was involved in medically evaluating Nazis at Nuremberg. His application of Thorburn to Kennedy is complete nonsense. 

There is no record of Carl E. Linde being a caption writer except for these Altgens photos. But, there is an extensive record of him being a photographer. Not a writer. A photographer. 



  

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