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

A ridge line from a fingerprint? You think you can account for all that anomalous stuff by blaming it on yet another fingerprint?

It's not what you were saying last night. Last night, you said that the picture wasn't pulled from the camera properly, and the chemicals got spilled and spread the wrong way. You didn't say anything about a fingerprint. 

I can look it up, you know. You want me to post it here what you said last night? 

Alright, so now you're changing your story. But remember, there's already a big fingerprint smudge near the center of the photo:

First, people have been using Polaroid cameras for a long time, and they understand that until it's completely finished developing and fully dry, you can't touch it. You're not supposed to get your fingers on it. But, you're saying that it happened not once, but twice here. 

And you see how small the picture must have been for such a big mark to be cast by a thumb. It looks more like a big toe smudge than a thumb smudge. So, what finger did the damage in the area of Bill Newman? The pinkie? The fact is: that area looks nothing like the thumb smudge. It just looks like Bill Newman's arm is missing. It looks like it would be expected to look if he was, in fact, an amputee. 

OK, now listen up Bpete. I am rejecting and dismissing your ridiculous claim. But, if you want to continue with it, then you get yourself a Polaroid camera and start experimenting. See if you can duplicate the phenomenon that you are claiming. And since the motorcycle cop looks to be whole and intact, you must demonstrate how a finger contact could cause the exact mischief we see. It seems to me that a finger, any finger, would extend over into the area of the motorcycle cop. 

If you look at the helmet of Hargis, who is closest to us, he is deeply affected by the thumbprint, but underneath the thumbprint, we can still see his white helmet intact.

 So, why would a fingerprint on the right edge cause the complete removal of Bill Newman's arm?

 You are just chattering; foaming at the mouth. So, don't say another word. Instead, get a Polaroid camera out and let your photographic experiments do your talking.