After all this time, after all these years, of claiming that the Altgens6 photo was faxed at 1:03 PM, you finally, on May 13, 2015, have found documentary proof of it. Oh for joy!
Until now, you were just claiming it, or citing other people who claimed it. But now, you can point to something tangible. You must be jumping through the ceiling.
Except that it has a caption that is goofy. It's like Carl E. Linde was drunk when he wrote it. He refers to "shot" instead of "shots" even though from the very beginning, it was all about shots, plural.
And frankly, it seems rather redundant. It says:
KENNEDY SHOT IN DALLAS
And then it says:
President John F. Kennedy was shot today just as his motorcade left downtown Dallas.
Isn't that about the same thing? Everyone knew his full name, John F. Kennedy. They could have wasted a little more space by writing out Fitzgerald. A caption is such a small piece of writing, that you'd think he'd have tried to maximize the amount of information he was providing. Instead, he repeated himself. I guess he ran out of things to say.
Well, here's something he could have said:
"At 1:00 p.m. CST, after all the activity had ceased, and after the priest administered the last rites, President Kennedy was pronounced dead."
1:00? Well, that comes before 1:03, right? I realize it's cutting it close, but don't you think they were following it closely? But then:
"Secret Service men are looking from where shot came from."
That sounds so bad, it's like nails scraping the chalkboard. It sounds like something Robin Unger would write. And not one newspaper in the country went with it. I wonder if that has ever happened before or since that an AP caption was edited by every single paper in the country.
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