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

 

I have done a close-up of Lovelady's hands atop his head in the Altgens photo. I wanted to see if it's real; if it's really his hands. Or is it more crude art?

Well, it is certainly weird. If you put your hands atop your head, it's your pinkies that will be facing forwad. If you're not sure about it, go ahead and do it in front of a mirror.

So, that deviated finger that we see has got to be a pinkie. But, the pinkie doesn't behave like that. The pinkie and the ring figer are parallel, and they usually work together. They both do the same thing. If you have an explicit reason to jut your pinkie out by itself, you can do it. But, if you don't have that intention, and if you're not thinking about it, you're not at all likely to do that. You're much more likely to leave your hand in its neutral position, where the ring finger and pinkie are pretty much aligned.

And there is absolutely no lateral bending in the interphylangeal joints. Those joints can flex and extend, and that's it. I put a question mark in the space between the pinkie and the ring finger because that space shouldn't be there.

There appears to be two phylanges there; one starting at the metacarpo-phalangeal joint, which I indicated with an x. And the other is the interphalangeal joint, which I indicated with a y. But, the problem is that there are 3 digits in the pinkie. So, you have the metacarpo-phalangeal joint, and then the proximal interphalangeal joint, and then the distal interphalangeal joint. So, this pinkie has a joint and a bone missing.

Then, when we look above it at the ring fingers, the two ring fingers seem to be continuous. One runs into the other. We don't see a break between them. To me, it looks like one long finger between two metacarpal joints.

And then above that, we see a very weird interlacing of the fingers. But, if you are going to interlace your fingers, you're going to interlace all of them. Maybe not the thumb, because the thumb has a life of its own, but definitely the four fingers. So, in this case, are we supposed to believe that he has just his middle and index fingers interlaced? I don't believe it. I don't think anyone would do that. And if somebody did do it, the ring fingers would still have to overlap. That's because you have to move your whole hand; you can't leave your ring fingers behind.

Is it even possible for someone to configure their hands the way we see them here? I don't think so. I don't think anyone could do better than "kinda/sorta". And if you want to stand in front of a mirror and try, ask yourself when you're done, whether your hands could wind up like that spontaneously; without thinking.

So, I tell you that this is art. It is somebody's crappy art. Was Lovelady doing it at all? Perhaps not. Maybe they came up with the idea as a way of justifying why he has no head and face. After all, if he was just standing there with his arms down, they couldn't just blacken out his head and leave hiim standing there headless. Nobody would buy that. So, they created this illusion because, even though he's headless, at least he has his full height. And the suggestion is that his face is in shadow- even though it is optically impossible. His elbows are way out and his hands are not visoring his eyes, so what is there to cast shadow on his face? There's nothing.

As I have said, these people were brazen and arrogant, and they thought they were Gods, that they could get away with anything. Who were they? I don't know who the artists were, but I think I know who their boss was: Dino Brugioni. And, I do believe that he hoodwinked Doug Horne and Peter Janney into thinking that he supported them.