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

My friend OIC member Jay Knowles made an interesting comment that there is something "intangible" about this, meaning that the association, the gut feeling that, "hey, they are the same guy" jumps out at you, but you're not exactly sure why. And I agree, although now I am going to try to make the intangible tangible, just for the heck of it. 

But first, I want to point something out which I find funny. The artist who colorized this chose a different color for Black Tie Man's jacket, a darker one. So, that enables us to see what he assigned as the dividing line between them. 

It looks like he just arbitrarily assigned a narrow strip to Black Tie Man next to Doorman. That he just pulled from out his ass. There was no visible junction there. It's an arbitrary construct. The existing junction is just the white of his shirt. Then, at the bottom, he went wild with too much of Doorman's color. The shape of Doorman's shirt is jutting out in an impossible bulge. He got sloppy and lazy with that.  Again: it's arbitrary, capricious, and made up. But, I'm not really blaming him because there was no right way to do it. There's nothing real about it. It was made up- by the alterers of the photo. 

But, getting back to the comparison and making the intangible tangible: 

I think we are registering on how identical are the depth of the eyes. That is something that is very distinguishing about a person: the depth of their eyes. It's created by how deep they actually are but also by how prominent the cheeks are, and they are the same here too. So, we have a certain prominence of the brow bone, and then the eye itself, and then the bulge of the cheek beneath it, and all of those elements match between them. Then there is the nose, and the sense that we are getting about both of them is that it's pyramidal, meaning sides coming together at steep angles (like a pyramid) and meeting at a point. This is opposed to the lumpen nose that Lovelady had, meaning  that it was more of a hunk of cartilage, a honker. 

Here's the dictionary definition of honker:

honker

Definition of HONKER

1

:  one that honks

2

slang :  a very large nose 

But really, it's not just the size, it's the shape of it, the fact that it's like the bulb of a horn that you could squeeze to honk. It's large and lumpen; unsculpted and blobby.  But again, Oswald's and Doorman's nose was pyramidal. 

We're getting the same sense about the triangular shape of the face. Of course, Doorman's is gouged out on his left side (our right) from the implantation of Black Tie Man, and we don't see that on Oswald. In fact, if you really look at the shape of Doorman's face on his left side, you see how impossible it is- unless he had some kind of erosive cancer that was eating away his face. Another likeness between the two is the length of the neck. We are getting the exact same sense about the distance from the chin to the chest. The notch or v-shape of the t-shirt is the same on both, and we're getting the same sense about the outer shirt being old and disheveled shirt, badly in need of ironing, and being slightly too big over a slender frame.

This is the same man, and my enemies know it. 

If they thought otherwise, they'd put up an image of the man they thought he was to show a better comparison, but they don't even bother. They don't even try. Why bother? It's a waste of time and effort, and they know it.  In fact, it would do more harm than good. And that's why I say they're bloodied. They know it's Oswald in the doorway, but they just don't care. They'll continue to fight it and refuse to admit it to the bitter end. And oh yes, the end is going to be bitter, and there will be no forgiveness.