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

 

I redid this collage from yesterday, and I removed Black Tie Man completely from the image because the fact is: he wasn't there.

But, besides removing Black Tie Man, I also repaired Oswald. His left shoulder was missing, so I drew it back in. And the left side of his face (right to us) was gouged out, so I restored it too.

The top of his head needed to lose the oval, simian cap that they gave him from the image of Young Lovelady, and I replaced it with the top of Oswald's head. They also put the Black Man in there, but it would be a mess to remove him, so I won't.

So, what you see in the center is how Doorman originally looked. On the right it shows the unique construction of Oswald's Russian shirt that they had to cover up with Black Tie Man.

Now, I realize it was an awful lot to do. But, they had a crack team there from the National Photographic Interpretation Center who had honed their skills. I'm sure they were the best in the world at this. And they worked at a frantic pace. Walter Cronkite showed the Altgens photo to the nation at 5:30 PM Central Time, which was 5 hours after the shooting. If they had it before that, they would have showed it before that. It was very rapid surgery they did, and we know where they did it: Jaggars/Chiles/Stovall, the CIA/DOD photo lab in Dallas, where, ironically, Oswald worked from October 1962 to April 1963.