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

Who made the decision to vanish the shirt that Oswald was wearing at the time this image on the left was taken?

I find it hard to believe that the artist would have made that decision. He was an employee. He was out to deliver whatever they wanted. He was eager to please. Someone must have told him to leave out the shirt. 

But why would the editors at TIME magazine want to ditch the shirt? Was it because it was the same shirt Oswald wore in the doorway?

On the right above, you can see how rumpled Oswald's shirt was. The Warren Commission displayed that same shirt like this:

Would you not agree that they must have taken an iron to that shirt?

And since Oswald's shirt loomed open and jacket-like, how dare they cinch it up like that?

Oswald NEVER had his shirt buttoned up like that, so how dare the Warren Commission present it that way and show it to witnesses like that and ask them to identify it? It was deliberate deception. 

But, getting back to this art:

Let's remember that they had myriad photos of Oswald to choose from to serve as model for their artwork. They deliberately chose one that happened to catch Oswald at a moment and at an angle in which his stare looks weird, which can happen to anybody; his eyes look glassy, tranced, etc. There are plenty of images in which he looks normal, with no weird look. 

They were trying to make him look like a freak, so they started with an image which accidentally and spontaneously gave him a weird look, and then the artist did all he could to worsen it to result in an image of a person who looks disturbed and deranged. 

Wouldn't that have to be blood dripping down the wall? Where did they get the right to infuse such art into his image? He seems to be in front of a brick wall, a wall that you might find at a prison. Or perhaps an insane asylum?  That's what occurs to me as I look at it. Obviously, it had no connection to reality. 

Another glaring addition of freakery is the head/neck relationship. On the left, Oswald has got his arms raised and his head is turned slightly, but there is nothing abnormal about the way his head is screwed on, so to speak. It's OK within the context of what he was doing. His head/neck configuration is directly related to what his arms are doing. But on the right in the art work, his arms aren't doing anything. So, we see all this tension in his sternocleidomastoid muscles that is unrelated to anything he is doing, and then his head goes off at a weird tilt. It was a deliberate attempt to make him look like a freak, and the artist must have been instructed to do it. 

My hunch is that they began by telling the artist that they wanted an image of Oswald in which he looks disturbed and deranged. And then he may have gone through a stack of photos of Oswald, and as soon as he saw that one, he thought to himself, "Bingo! That's a gem." And so, he worked off it and added his own imaginative touches. He must have been told to ditch the shirt. I doubt he would have come up with that on his own. All in all, it is a very grotesque piece of art.