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

Robin Unger claims that this is a copy of the original Moorman photo that Mary Moorman herself lent to Jack White and Gary Mack for their Badgeman study.

But, that isn't even plausible because Jack White and Gary Mack didn't do their Badgeman study until decades after the assassination, while the thumbprint, according to Mary, was inflicted soon after the assassination. 

And now, we are going to listen to Mary Moorman, herself. 

This was from a protracted interview she did in 2013 for the 50th anniversary.  I am going to quote her now, word for word. But, by all means, don't take my word for it. Click on the link below, and watch and listen to her saying it. It occurs right at the beginning. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usHuJpWCIgY

Here is what she said:


"I went home with the picture. They did not keep it. But, somewhere around 12:30, I guess we were keyed-up, my son and I, and at 12:30 (AM) the doorbell rang, and these two men were standing there saying that they were FBI, and they needed to take the picture. We asked for their telephone number. They had badges, but you know, people carry badges. But, we did verify that they were from the Dallas FBI office. And they left me a receipt that they were taking the picture. And just a few days later, it was brought back to me. I don't know the period of time that passed, but the CIA looked at it; the Secret Service looked at it; the FBI looked at it- again. Each time they took it, and each time they would leave me a receipt on a scrap piece of paper. It was nothing official, but I did have a receipt. And when the FBI, the second time that they took it, when it was returned to me, it had a big thumbprint on my picture. It would be nice to know whose thumbprint that was so that I could be angry with him."

Again: don't take my word for it. Listen to the interview. Listen to Mary. Listen to her say it. Watch her say it. It's at the very beginning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usHuJpWCIgY 

The most important thing to realize is that the photo was perfectly dry and stable at the time the thumbprint was made. 

Like many people, and perhaps like everyone, I presumed that the mark was made when the photo was wet and unstable, when it was pulled from the camera and was still developing.  In that circumstance, you can see how such damage could occur. But, pressing a thumb into a dry, stable photograph, including a Polaroid, doesn't damage it at all. If you don't believe me, get out some photographs and try it.  

And you can't blame it on the age of the photograph either because it wasn't that old. From what she said, it sounds like it was a couple weeks after it was taken, and photos don't deteriorate that fast. But, I have Polaroid pictures that go back to the 1970s which I took out and pressed my thumb into, and there was no damage to them at all.

So, the ONLY way the damage could occur was if the thumb was coated with something. And no one with a lick of sense has any reason to think it was an accident. This was a highly historical photograph, a photograph of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Who would handle it with soiled hands, and how could an FBI agent do such a thing? 

Furthermore, look at it. It would be one thing if it was damaged around the edges, but it is a big thumbprint right in the center. How does such a thing happen by accident? What would his thumb have been doing anywhere near that part of the picture?

Explain to me how this could have been an "Oops" moment. Bull shit. Somebody did it deliberately. It could not have happened by accident. And since it was deliberately done, there must have been a reason. And the only possible reason was to cover something up, and most likely an alteration that was made to it. 

It's possible that they never planned to inflict the thumbprint. It's possible that they altered it in the hope and expectation that it would look good enough that no one would notice that it was tampered with. Isn't that usually the case when photos are altered? They don't usually put thumbprints on them. But, in this case, they just didn't arrive at a result that would pass muster, so they added the thumbprint. 

The bottom line is that this 2013 interview of Mary Moorman makes clear that she could not have given the original, untouched Moorman photo to Gary Mack and Jack White for their Badgeman study because that wasn't done until 1988, and the thumbprint was inflicted soon after the assassination by the FBI. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usHuJpWCIgY