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

 I have assembled images here of the Dal-Tex building to get a clear idea of its form. On the left is a later image after the fire escape was removed, and you can see that it consists of 3 sets of double windows, with rectangular vertical columns in-between.

Next is the Phil Willis slide, and you see the 3 sets of windows, but the doubling of the windows doesn't stand out because of the angle that it is. But notice that there is a vertical rain gutter on both sides of the 3 sets of windows. And they are rather far apart, which makes sense because how many rain gutters do you need?

Next is a photograph from 1963, so with the fire escape, and you see the 3 sets of windows. You only see the one rain gutter, on the south side, because the other one was cut off.

And finally, there is the Altgens2 photo, with the black boy on the fire escape. In it, you don't see any windows at all. You presume there is one deep to the boy, but I don't know that you can claim that it is visually displayed. If it is, it is barely so. But, you definitely do not see the sets of windows south of him, including the one with the girls in the window of Altgens6. And you don't see the windows behind him either. In fact, what you see behind him is the other drainage gutter, which was much farther down in the Phil Willis slide.

So, look at everything in-between the drainage gutters in Phil Willis, and then go to Altrgens2 on the right and look at what it has between its drainage gutters. Are you going to tell me that there are 3 sets of double windows there?

And what do you think would happen if you went there today and re-shot it from Houston Street? You know it's not going to look like Altgens2. And I may just go there myself and do it.