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

As you can see, there is a little "scar" there from lifting out the figures. Yet, I'll admit that if they could have accomplished something that good in 1963, it's likely that nobody would have suspected a thing. But, they couldn't accomplish it in 1963. 

The way it's done today is to take imagery from the image and put it down over the spot that you want covered. Remember, this is digital. It's not really duplicating because you could duplicate something from scratch. But, this comes down to using something that is already there. You're copying something and moving it. It doesn't have to "match" it because it is it.  

But, there is nothing comparable to that in the non-digital realm. All they could do in 1963 was make changes directly to the image itself or to the negative. And the question: what would look better? And they must have thought that placing someone in front of the undesired figure would produce the best outcome.

And let's remember that all the alterations done to the Altgens doorway are crude. "Crude." That's the word Professor David Wrone used to describe them.

You see the black woman with the radiant smile. She was standing on Elm Street right next to the other black women. She was nowhere near the doorway. But, why is her hair so big compared to the other black women? And no: she did not have a big afro.  The man with his arm crossing his chest actually had both arms crossing his chest, and that white splotch over his face is just a white splotch. This is a photoshopped image in which someone tried to detail it into a forearm with a vizoring hand, but that is just bull shit. They also gave him a giant pinkie. This is where the crudeness comes in. This is what makes it crude. 

 So, if they had tried to lift Jack Ruby out of there and create the background behind him from scratch, I guarantee you that it would have been "crude." It would have been much more coarse and crude than seeing the Woman and Boy there. No, they made the right decision, but they never should have included the elevated boy. Big mistake.