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

140 feet, you say? Wow, that's a long way. In that case, how did Altgens' camera pick up the line of Black Tie Man's collar as it met the shirt?

If you look closely, you can see the junction of the collar and the shirt as a faint line. Do you really think Altgens' camera could pick that up from 140 feet away? Well, how could you think it when you don't even think it could pick up a white button?

So, according to Bpete, there is a white button there, but we can't see even a hint of it because of Altgens' distance and the limitations of his camera and film, etc. Yet, as you can see above, it picked up the junction of Black Tie Man's collar and his shirt, resulting in a very three-dimensional look. But, here's what I think: I think somebody photoshopped that collar line into it in order to humanize Black Tie Man. I don't think that detail ever existed in Altgens photo. 

I have the October 1964 Life magazine which has an enlargement of Doorman that includes Black Tie Man. There is no collar line in it. It's all just a sea of white, and you can't make out a thing. 

You recall that I referred to what Judyth Baker does as back-writing, where she creates her stories by inserting herself into known events that occurred to Oswald. Well, this is back-detailing, where they add detail to the cropped and enlarged photo in order to authenticate it. What I'm saying is that the distinction of the collar that we see in that "Groden scan" is bull shit. I don' t know if Groden did it or if somebody else did it, but it is bull shit. There is no way that Altgens' camera could pick up the distinction of the collar and the shirt and visualize it as a line.