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

What I said about the ridiculousness of the Beers photo also applies to the Jackson photo. Supposedly, the shot has already gone off. Imagine how startling it would be. The Colt Detective Special snub-nose 38 is even louder than the Smith and Wesson snub-nose 38 that I have, and it's loud. Imagine if you were in a setting with no expectation of hearing it, and it happened. You would startle. Anyone would. But, no one in the Jackson photo is startling. 

 The startle reaction is very well defined. It involves tensing of the neck, hunching of the shoulders, flexing of the limbs, and a generalized state of anxiety. No one in the photo is exhibiting a startle reaction, although Fritz on the left seems to be faking one by putting his hand out. 

On the right is Blackie Harrison puffing on his cigar like Groucho Marx. In the Beeers photo, taken a fraction of a second before, his arms was down, and you could see the cigar in his left hand. So, in half a second, he brought the cigar up to his mouth at a time like that?

So, Blackie's response to the situation in the Beers photo was to bring the cigar up to his mouth. But notice Ike Pappas between Blackie and Tom Petit. Where is Pappas in Jackson? He wasn't there. And that's why they gave Blackie that thick arm and painted in that artifact below it, because Pappas wasn't there. 

That brown elbow below Blackie's armpit is supposed to be the arm of Ike Pappas. But, it's an artifact. Pappas wasn't there at the time. This was taken about an hour before the telvised spectacle. It's a staged photo. Again notice Lowery looking right at "Ruby" but looking relaxed and not disturbing his comfortably clasped hands. No startle reaction for him.