This is the 2nd Wiegman Doorman on the left and the Altgens Doorman on the right. I call him the 2nd Wiegman Doorman because he's the Doorman we see the second time Wiegman pans the doorway. These are supposed to be the same man, but isn't it obvious that they are not? How different do two people have to be before you admit that they are different individuals? The guy on the left is fat-faced; the guy on the right is gaunt. They can't possibly be the same man.
But, if you know, as I do, that the Altgens Doorman was Oswald, then who is that other guy? I honestly don't know. He can't be Oswald, but he can't be Lovelady either because once you admit that Oswald was the Altgens Doorman, you can't assign Lovelady to be the Doorman in another photo. That doesn't work. There was only one Doorman. For the whole day, for the whole situation, there was just one Doorman. The Doorman has to be the same man in all images.
I don't know who that other Doorman was, but I do know how he got there; they put him there. They put him into the film. And they did it because Oswald had left the doorway. He had left for the lunch room. And they couldn't have an empty doorway devoid of a Doorman; so they put one in there.
Now, if that seems far-fetched to you, what I'd like you to do is come up with an alternative. Explain it some other way. We obviously have two different Doormen in these two men, yet we know that there was only one. So, explain it. I think that if you try for a while, you'll realize that there is no explanation except for the one I gave, that they stuck him into the film.
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