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

When I started clamoring that there were no images of James Bookhout, not from the assassination (even though he followed Oswald around like his shadow) not from before the assassination, and not from after the assassination, and that even after his death in 2009 at the age of 95, his obituary lacked an image, I knew why.

But, at some point, Bart Kamp, from England, claimed to go to the National Archives and obtain an image of James Bookhout from the assassination weekend. But remember, that I did find yearbook images of Bookhout with the help of Ancestry.com. So, the image Kamp found has to be consistent with the yearbook images, or else it's bogus, right? 

Well, it's bogus. As you can see on the left, Bookhout had very puffy cheeks. He was that way in the earliest image of him that we found, which was from high school. I think he was maybe 15 at the time. But, the collage below compares his 1937 photo from when he graduated from SMU Law School in 1937 with the image Kamp found. 

So, you see the very puffy cheeks on the left, and then on the right, is the Kamp image. Note how gaunt that guy's face was. And remember that, usually, people tend to get fatter as they age. So, how could he go from fat-faced to gaunt? What, did he go on an extreme diet? Did he become a marathon runner? You see he's smoking a pipe there. Bookhout lived to 95. How many pipe smokers live to 95? Those two are obviously not the same man. And notice how fake the tuft of hair is in front in Kamp's image. It obviously isn't hair. It's just painted on and crudely at that. But, the same goes for the swervy eyebrows on Bookhout. Nobody has eyebrows like that. Some women will shave their eyebrows and paint on swervy ones, but that's the only way you get them. So, a concerted effort was made to alter Bookhout's appearance on the left. Therefore, both images are altered. However, there is no reason to doubt that that is Bookhout on the left, and that means that the man on the right can't be him. 

The Wizard put it well when he said, "There is no way that early law school photo could have morphed into that."